About
Why this app exists
I am Kevin. That is a pseudonym — the real name is too heavy to share publicly, because this app is autobiographical.
I built this for myself.
I am not a founder. I am not a coach. I am not a therapist. I am someone who has spent more time standing at his front door than walking through it.
I have lost months to my bedroom. Not days — months. The thing people do not understand is that it is not laziness, and it is not really sadness. It is a specific kind of weight that lives between you and the door. The walk is fine. The walk has never been the problem. It is getting to the door that costs everything.
I have read the articles. I have watched the videos. They are written by people who have never lost a year to their bedroom. Motivation is not the answer.
I leaned hard on alcohol and weed through COVID. I do not say that with shame anymore. If a substance is what got you outside today, that is still outside. I know that intimately.
I was also addicted to Overwatch — ten hours a day for years, alongside the 'work' I was pretending to do. I stopped going to the gym about two years ago. Different shape, same story.
I built this app because talking to a general AI was not enough, and the apps that exist either gamify you, judge you, or speak in a voice I cannot hear. I needed something that would just be there. A presence. Something that says: I was here, and I remember you exist.
I am still in it. I am not a success story. That is the credential that matters.
If you are reading this and you also cannot get past your door — I see you. I built this for both of us.
What this app refuses to do
- No streaks. No counters. No 'you missed a day.' The first time you see a gap, your inner critic has all the ammunition it needs to never try again. So those numbers do not exist here.
- No gamification. No badges, no levels, no progress bars. Walking is not a game.
- No social pressure. The community feed is anonymous reactions only — no usernames, no follower counts, no 'X people walked today.'
- No punishment for absence. 'I did not walk today' is not a tracked state. It simply does not exist in the database.
- No promises to fix you. The app cannot. It is a presence, not a solution. Some days the bar is shoes on, standing at the door for thirty seconds. That counts.
On privacy
- I do not track you. No analytics, no third-party scripts, no Google Tag Manager.
- I do not sell your data. Ever. To anyone. There is no business model that requires it.
- I do not require an account, an email, or a phone number. Your 4-word code lives on your device.
- I cannot look at your check-ins to judge you. By design — there is no profile to look at.
- If you share your door photo, it stays yours. The metadata sits on the server only so I can match weather and timing for you. Never shared. Never sold.
What it actually is
- A single-developer project. One person. Me.
- Self-hosted on a small machine in my home. Running costs are about the price of a coffee a month.
- Currently free. If that ever changes, it will be to keep the lights on — not to get rich.
- If you have an idea, the Ideas page goes straight to me. No support team in the middle.
Coming later
- Custom username — if you ever want to sign up with a name you choose instead of the 4-word code, that option is coming.