This description sounded like a great idea to spend a sunny Saturday in 2017 with friends. At that time, we were working on an IT project for a client in the US and we wanted to be active on the weekend before the upcoming week forced us into office chairs again.
The hike took us several hours — 6hrs and 32mins to be precise — and a lot of sweat as it was quite demanding but was rewarded with great views. Our fitness trackers confirmed the effort, we achieved our highest number of steps on that day.
The next day, we told colleagues and friends about the hike and bragged about our achievement. In return they told us about which great hikes they did. It did not take us long to start comparing fitness tracker data with each other. How many steps was your hike? What was the distance? How many calories did you burn to climb to the top?
All these comparisons were made via email or online chats. As we are developers, it did not take long until we put up a website to automatically sync our fitness trackers to compare and analyse our performances.
Soon after, more and more people all over the world started to sign up to sync their fitness trackers and compare their fitness stats. The “Global Fitrockr Championship” fitness community was born and became the seed for Fitrockr Health Solutions to be founded by us one year later in 2018.