Walky app: Tell us what you think and get SBI shares!
Hello there!
Did you know that:
- 1 out of 4 doesn’t get enough exercise
- That sitting is the new smoking
- By 2025, half of the population will consist out of millennials
- 93% of this generation prefers to buy from sustainable companies
Well we do and here at Walky we want to take action on this.
What is Walky?
In essence, Walky is a step counter app. But it’s so much more.
Users are rewarded with Walky-points for their steps. These Walky-points can be exchanged for rewards supplied by partner-brands. Users can do this individually or form groups and collectively save for rewards to increase social interaction. The rewards will also be from a sustainable nature or from sustainable companies.
What are the key principles of Walky?
- Sustainability
- Partner-brands should excel in sustainability
- Creating an impact
- Users should be able to give back to the community (give your steps to local charities)
- User friendliness
- Clear, crisp and easy to understand UX and UI
The MVP design
This is a basic version of the concept that focuses on activity, rewards and individual target features. At first we would like to build a strong userbase to find out what the community would want in future releases.
It is also important to notice that no registration is required to use the app at first. Of course when you want to collect a reward or form groups and invite friends, you'll have to register. Only minimum information will be required to insure maximum privacy. We are not a data collecting company.
Future features
- Groups feature
- Provide users the ability to form groups, invite friends and earn Walky-points for a shared reward.
- Bonus power-ups
- Provide users the option to perform tasks, like watching a sponsored video or answering quiz questions on sustainability, to gain advantages. For example, all points collected are doubled for the day.
- Event power-ups
- Provide users to participate in events. For example the marathon of Antwerp. Joining events will lead to power-ups similar to “Bonus power-ups”.
- Leaderboards
- Compare your progress with other users.
- Enhanced social features
- More social features like messages, chatbox, friend feed,… .
Is this thing built on blockchain?
No. For the moment there are no plans on building the app with blockchain technology. We decided that this use case does not need it. Not yet anyway. But we are pro blockchain and cryptocurrency. That's why we created an account on Steemit. Our customer segment are millennials and Steemit is filled with this generation. It would also be cool to reward users with Steem or create our own SMT in the future.
We need your help.
In order to give the community the best possible app that they deserve, we would like to get some feedback.
Do you like the idea?
Would you use it?
Do you think some of the future features needs to be included into the basic MVP?
Can you think of other features you want?
Any other advice, tricks, opinions?
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Our founder, @d0zer, will reward every user with 2 @steembasicincome shares that gives feedback.
In total there are 50 shares to be given away.
Thank you for reading.
The Walky team
Awesome idea. Generally I like this type of application, goals to build a bridge from Activities in the Life and reward or reward-like system. The initial proposals are good. Securely I'll browse more on the project
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We're very happy you like it! I hope you will enjoy it when it will be released.
Shares incoming!
There is a main website or you utilize only the steemit Channel for the news about the project?
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We have no website or other social media account for the moment. First we thought it would be a good idea to ask feedback on the app. Of course, if everything goes well and the app will be developed, much more information will be available on a website and other social media.
Ok, Thanks :)
I like the simple, clean interface and the way the home screen background appears to change based on time of day (or weather?). Little nuances like that make for a more polished experience.
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Indeed. The background changes based on time of day and weather as well. We thought it was fun feature to add. :)
Glad you like it.
Here are some shares.
Quite interesting, esp. the feature to accomplish something valuable collectively by working in a group. You may also think on the lines of BOID Team set-up to make a group more active as a whole vis-a-vis other group (teams). Points themselves should be transferable (donate-able) to charity instead of cash so that the charity could exchange them for the things they need from another sustainable company. Some sustainable ventures may also form a group to reward their group members with their products or services in exchange of points earned and gain more brand visibility & loyalty in return.
Will keep an eye on the development of this app.
Very interesting feedback you gave there.
We will check on how BOID does it. Thanks for the tip!
2 shares incoming.
Great idea. I would like to use it.
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Glad you would want to use it. We will keep you updated.
Here are some shares.
The idea is good. My main questions are: how the steps will be counted? Will it be possible to connect the app to a smart band / smart watch? Will it track other activities than walking/running?
I also like the idea of participation in events for users. It's ambitious and exciting. It would be great if users could organize events themselves for their local communities.
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We're still exploring various options on how to count steps. There will also be a maximum steps per day to counter fraud. (around 15 000 steps)
It will be possible to connect the app with wearables. For the moment only walking/running will be tracked. But with future releases, other activities could be added.
Your idea of that users could create their own events is great!
Thanks for your valuable feedback.
2 shares incoming!
I like this idea a lot. It takes a lot of motivation for me to get up and exercise, and a good reward program would help a lot.
My one suggestion, to help adoption, is to integrate the app with some of the existing fitness devices that have open APIs. For example, I wear my Fitbit all the time as a watch, so it would be great to be able to import those stats into Walky even if I'm not walking with my phone all the time.
That's exactly the reason why we want to do this. To get people motivated.
Your suggestion is spot on!
The plan is to integrate it with wearables like Fitbit.
Thanks!
2 shares for you.
Great, I'm glad to hear it. I'll look forward to trying out the app. Thank you for the shares!
I am interested to see how Walkyapp turns out. Right now I use Actifit and try to post meaningful content but maybe being removed from the chain will help myself and others to concentrate on the actual physical benefits of our activities. Integration with Fitbit or Garmin would be great (although my phone goes with me most walks/hikes). Best advice I can think of is GO SLOW and produce a first rate app with the essential features and improve over time with feedback. Looking forward to downloading. Keep us updated.
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That is indeed good advice. First release will contain the most important features after that...we'll see what the community really wants.
We will keep you updated!
2 shares for you.
Does this app only measures walking? I am using actifit and gogglefit to track my movement. I like the idea of group count. That is something new.
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Walking and probably running as well.
It would be nice to add other activities like cycling in the future.
Cool you like the idea of the groups!
2 shares for you.
@dozer you did it man!!! Absolutely well-done mate, the App looks great and I wish you nothing but success!
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Now stop messing about with that and create us some great Steem Apps please ;-)
It's a clever idea. I actually like the fact it won't be spamming the network with posts (The quality of actifit posts range from spam to very good). I use another step counter app, but I'd switch to this one if I knew there was a tie-in to STEEM. It might prompt some walkers to create accounts on STEEM if they know there was some extra benefit.
It doesn't really look like this app initially will be dependent on STEEM for anything, save being an account with powered up STEEM. I say why not if you are sinking STEEM with this project.
Do you plan on having any sort of AR features where you could send your users on missions or tasks? You could also incorporate geocaching or other fun activities like that.
The AR features is something we're also thinking about. It would be indeed cool to send users on missions.
Your idea about geocaching is brilliant and we will do some further research on this if it's possible!
Thank you for your valuable feedback.
2 shares are on the way!
You're welcome, and thank you for the shares and also declining rewards on this post!
Best of luck!