Stride

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.

• I'm 17 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
• I have a UI development team working on creating Stride's UI for the next, public version.
• I conducted a small scale study to gauge product market fit. Across all participants answering survey questions similar to "on a scale from 1-10, how likely are you to use Stride once it's released?" & "on a scale from 1-10 how enjoyable would you say Stride is?" the average rating was ~9/10 across all questions.
• 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.