Competish: Social Weight Loss

Weight loss with friends

2 followers

Weight loss with friends

2 followers

A platform that allows you to challenge your friends & see who can lose the most weight. Create a group, invite friends, buy in & then weigh in daily. Beat your match-up weekly & you win money. Beat the entire group weekly & win more!

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Launch tags:

iOS•Health & Fitness

Launch Team

Amir Kanpurwala

Competish: Social Weight Loss

Maker

Thanks so much @chrismessina! This is the very first version of our product, which we think of as a mashup of weight loss competitions and fantasy football! At it's core, Competish is an exercise in behavioral economics - we're trying to figure out the right combination of stimuli to drive your motivation and get you eating better and exercising more!

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7yr ago

Pillow John

Textual Healing - Episode 013: "The Red Chair, Pt. 2" or "Garbage Planet"

This is amazing looking. I downloaded now. Big question: What if people lie for the money?

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7yr ago

Amir Kanpurwala

Competish: Social Weight Loss

Maker

@arecenello Hi Anthony - thanks for downloading! There are two primary ways of preventing that. 1) whomever creates the group decides who to invite - this means that the folks you are competing against are people you trust. 2) When you weigh in, you take a picture of your feet on the scale. Granted, you can still lie here. It's not perfect, but we think this eliminates most instances of cheating.

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7yr ago

Pillow John

Textual Healing - Episode 013: "The Red Chair, Pt. 2" or "Garbage Planet"

@amir_kanpurwala How are you going to scale when hundreds of people want to join a competition and we have to trust those hundreds of people?

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7yr ago

Amir Kanpurwala

Competish: Social Weight Loss

Maker

@arecenello It's really not built for that situation - we're really only targeting people and their specific networks. There are plenty of other massively open fitness competitions (e.g., Dietbet) - that's not our model!

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7yr ago