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WakaBuddy — walk more, together

No new gadget. No battery drain. Just the walk.

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WakaBuddy reads the steps your phone or watch already counts and turns them into a leaderboard with the people you actually know. No new gadget. No battery drain. Just the walk, and someone to beat. Download on iOS and Android.

PH · launched Nov 1, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 18%) · 0 views

Niche: fitness and health trackers · 375 launches, 45 in the last 7 days ▼ -18% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Healthcare
  • Workflow automation
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product
  • Android
  • Health & Fitness

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Could you build this?

Yes The app reads step counts from the phone's health APIs and builds a friends leaderboard, which is standard mobile development with a social backend.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 230 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #37 of 231 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 300 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Stride · ph · 2026-10-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
  • Mozy · ph · 2026-10-26 · 84 upvotes · similarity 0.46
  • Mobbe · ph · 2026-10-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
  • StrollTime · ph · 2026-10-14 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.43
  • Japan Walk Nomad · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
  • FindMySpot · ph · 2026-09-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
  • KiloBolt GPS · ph · 2026-09-27 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
  • Wavind for iPhone and Apple Watch · ph · 2026-10-23 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42

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