Stride

Catch the adventure in every stride.
Austin

About Stride

Stride is the first running app to use variable, personalized haptic feedback during runs, creating an immersive and non-intrusive game-like experience unlike anything on the market. This innovative feature delivers real-time, dynamic feedback based on your pace and progress, turning each run into a unique adventure. As you chase and catch mythical creatures, the haptic sensations guide you, ensuring that each stride brings you closer to your goal while keeping you fully engaged.

To reap rewards and catch creatures, you must adjust your pace based on what the pet or reward requires—whether it’s speeding up, slowing down, or maintaining your pace. This unpredictability mimics the dopamine-driven engagement found in addictive apps like TikTok, but instead of wasting time, Stride uses this to enhance your fitness journey, providing unexpected, rewarding experiences that motivate you to stay active and healthy.

Stride seamlessly integrates the four core elements of an effective running app—community, competition, accountability, and adventure. With Stride, you join a vibrant community, complete with rewards for running with friends, while competing against others in fun, gamified challenges. Stay accountable with personalized goals, and experience the thrill of adventure as you collect and train your pets on each run. Stride is not just a fitness tracker—it’s a gamified, personalized running experience that keeps you motivated, connected, and excited to hit the road again.

Team

Problem statement

Stride addresses a critical flaw in current running apps: the lack of effective, in-the-moment gamification. While apps like Strava engage users before and after their runs, they fail to provide real-time motivation during the run itself. For example, Strava may encourage competition with leaderboards or celebrate post-run achievements, but the experience of running itself remains largely uninspiring—sweat, fatigue, and the grind of completing miles without immediate reward.

Stride solves this problem by introducing dynamic, real-time gamification through innovative haptic feedback. This non-intrusive mechanism creates an engaging, interactive running experience, where motivation is delivered while you're actively running. Stride turns each run into a game, providing instant feedback and rewards, making every stride feel purposeful and exciting.

Traction information

I'm 16 and in the last 2 months I've achieved the following:

- Completely finished the first (MVP) version of Stride
- Landed Brady Holmer (endurance athlete, influencer, and running expert) as my advisor
- Found, pitched, and successfully attained an entire development team for FREE through an AI coding program (Gauntlet AI)
- I have a UI development team working on creating Stride's UI for the next, public version. I received access to this development team through my network and have had all expenses covered.
- I partnered with and now help manage a network of over 10,000 micro influencers prepared to advertise my app at a $1 CPM—meaning that each 1,000,000 views for Stride costs me only $1,000.

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