Save your bike key on your phone and keep riding. everything is saved securely on your phone so you can have a direct connexion to your bike if VanMoof services are down. Just generate your local key and enjoy peace of mind again.
I don't ride a VanMoof bike but this story is interesting. So, VanMoof incase you didn't hear went into administration and with that comes the fear for users that their bike will be forever locked out due to it requiring an app for a lot of its functionality, if VanMoof shuts down, so does the app, rendering the bikes useless.
Cowboy, VanMoof's competitor decided to overnight build an app that will keep their bikes online regardless of what happens. The reason given was the cycling movement with one employee saying "This is about keeping bikes on the road, which is our No.1 mission as a company, regardless if it’s a competitor or not,"
About Bikey on Product Hunt
“Keep your VanMoof bike alive with Bikey”
Bikey launched on Product Hunt on July 14th, 2023 and earned 98 upvotes and 2 comments, placing #45 on the daily leaderboard. Save your bike key on your phone and keep riding. everything is saved securely on your phone so you can have a direct connexion to your bike if VanMoof services are down. Just generate your local key and enjoy peace of mind again.
On the analytics side, Bikey competes within Biking — topics that collectively have 3.4k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Bikey performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Bikey?
Bikey was hunted by Aaron O'Leary. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Bikey including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
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