Zakir Zain

What if staying healthy felt like a game you play with your community?

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Hey everyone đź‘‹

I’ve been quietly building HabiLife over the last few months and wanted to share something we’re exploring.

Most health apps assume one thing:

👉 You’ll stay consistent alone.

But in reality, most people don’t.

So we tried a different approach:

👉 What if health felt like a game you play with your community?

With HabiLife, people:

• Join real-time step & habit challenges

• Compete on live leaderboards

• Stay consistent because others are doing it with them

• Co-walk or workout with a buddy — from anywhere in the world.

Imagine this:

You’re in Vancouver.

Your friend is in San Francisco.

You both start walking… together.

• You see each other’s steps in real time

• You compete on speed and distance

• You share moments, photos, and progress

• You push each other to keep going

It’s not just activity anymore.

It becomes a shared experience.

We call this Co-buddy workouts.

What’s been interesting is this:

Even when people are in different cities, they stay accountable just by doing it together.

What surprised me wasn’t the idea — it was the behavior:

→ 30M+ steps tracked in 3 months

→ One-day city challenges hitting 200K–300K+ steps

→ All organic, driven by small communities

We’re now experimenting with:

• Community vs community challenges

• Health + charity (people move more when it’s for a cause)

• Making consistency feel addictive (in a good way)

Still early, but one thing is clear:

People don’t just want to track health…

they want to experience it together.

Curious to hear from builders here:

👉 Would you use something like co-walking/workout with a friend remotely?

Would love your thoughts 🙌

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