I built steps.org for myself

When I skip one workout, the next one gets easier to skip. One quiet week becomes two, and by then starting again feels like starting from zero. Some of those weeks turned into months.

Workouts I planned for some day never happened. What worked was one number for the week, with my watch keeping the count. So steps.org sits on top of Strava and asks for one number: your activity minutes for the week, like 90 or 150. Any sport counts. steps.org adds up your moving time from Monday to Sunday.

A promise to myself was easy to break. A price is harder to ignore, and this one only appears when I miss. steps.org starts at $0. Miss a week and my monthly price goes up $5; hit one and it comes down $2.50. It never goes below $0 or above $25, and I see the new price the moment the week ends, Sunday at midnight.

steps.org is a website. There's no app to install: your workouts already reach Strava from your watch, bike computer or phone, and steps.org reads them from there. Your week and your price are one tab away.

Of what you pay, after VAT and card fees, 70% runs steps.org and 30% goes to carbon removal through Stripe Climate.

I'm not a doctor or a researcher. The studies on How it works are about steps, gym visits and weight, and nobody has tested steps.org itself in a trial. I'm trying it on myself. I can't promise it stays free for you, either: miss weeks and it won't, up to $25 a month unless you choose higher stakes.

steps.org is built by notacompany and run by Pipedesk OÜ, Pärnu mnt 22, 10141 Tallinn, Estonia. Write to me any time at [email protected].

Tiago MartinsCo-founder, notacompany.com