An active life social network that prioritizes close connections. Build your Active Club with up to 100 friends and support each other in a positive, inclusive environment. Privacy-focused, customizable, and compatible with popular fitness apps.
Hi everyone, I'm Luke Beard, CEO of Any Distance!
It's a big day for us. We're excited to introduce our 4.0 update, Active Clubs, designed to empower and support individuals on their active life journey while fostering a close-knit community of like-minded friends.
We believe in a fitness app that promotes inclusivity, privacy, and personal growth, and we've built Any Distance with those values in mind.
Our mission is to help people lead healthier, happier lives by embracing various activities and lifestyles. With features like Weekly Participation and Collectibles, we aim to motivate users and celebrate their achievements in a supportive, non-judgmental space.
Think of it as mashup of some of the best parts of Strava, BeReal and Path (RIP).
With that in mind, the privacy and safety of our communities data extremely seriously. This principle is ingrained in our company culture and influences every decision we make. We firmly believe that personal data should never be exploited for political or personal gain, and we commit to never handing over sensitive information to law enforcement unless legally required.
Our focus is on storing as little data as possible while still providing an excellent user experience. We will never store data that isn't necessary for the app's functionality. For more information on our approach to privacy, please check our Privacy Commitment (anyd.ist/commitment).
Active Clubs has been super well-received in early testing, showing that small groups of friends can indeed motivate each other to be more active and document their journey creatively. We are stoked to get this to more people.
We've built this chapter of Any Distance on the foundation of research that highlights the alarming trends in sedentary lifestyles, poor health, and declining life expectancy:
→ US adults are sedentary for 9.5 hrs/day, the majority of which is spent sitting.
→ By 2030, nearly 50% of US adults are projected to be obese.
→ At the current rate, ~500M people will develop heart disease, obesity, diabetes, or other noncommunicable diseases this decade.
→ Physical activity is 1.5 times more effective than counseling or medications in treating depression.
→ Exercise has beneficial effects across all clinical populations, with the greatest impact on those with major depressive disorder and those undergoing supervised exercise.
→ Life expectancy in the US has experienced a significant decline since 2020, partly due to increasingly sedentary lifestyles.
Please give 4.0 a try, and let us know your thoughts. We're very open to feedback and questions, as your input is invaluable in helping us create the best active life social network for everyone. Thank you for considering Any Distance, and welcome to the Active Club! #anydistancecounts
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Beautiful work team! Love using AD. Keeping my data private is key. I love being able to share my workouts and activities without sharing my location to everyone. I have to give credit to AD for helping me get back into running. Opening it helps me reflect on the joy of running, personal growth, and community. Not, competitive pressure. It's so great!
This is so dope, so beautifully designed and as close to the perfectest fitness app I've tried. and it's just fucking fun. Well done @lukesbeard and team!
Congrats on the launch! As a runner, will definitely be checking this out. Have been looking for a better way to share my runs and routes (was bouncing between Strava and Nike Running before)—looks like this is it!
Any Distance has become one of my favorite apps to use when tracking my running, walking and snowboarding. Sharing an animation of an entire day of snowboarding tracked over a photo of the mountain I was at, has been super fun to do with family and friends. Now having a club with the friends I ride or run with the most is going to be awesome!
I appreciate that I can separately track my stroller walks and hot girl walks. Time to get moving!
I’ve been meaning to give this a try! Glad to the focus privacy as well 🔒
Headed over to download!
Excited to see what Active Club can become! What was the inspiration behind this product?
Is it possible to have a positive social network?! Yes! Been loving the Any Distance Active Clubs beta... stoked to start inviting more friends!
i use anydistance every day! the apple watch app is awesome + everything in the app is designed so thoughtfully for fun and exploration! i'm actually wearing the "stupid little walk" shirt to work today ha!
I've been using this app for awhile including beta testing... The vision for the app is amazing and I think the sky is the limit. The app itself is one of the only reasons I keep using my old iPhone actually (no android support yet) and I'm constantly in awe of the design, UI and UX. Definitely an inspiration all around when it comes to that. Also they've got fantastic merch!
Stellar update - Luke and team have the special combination of excellent design, privacy and encouragement.
This app, and this company, are worth following closely!
My wife and I have been on the Active Clubs beta for a few weeks, and we are officially hooked. The design is impeccable, and I love the direction of the community and the vision of the company. So good!! 🔥
Social is dead. Long live social. 👏🏼
Acquaintance social (FB & IG) is done… tight-knit, human-first, healthy social like Any Distance is here to stay & I’m all for it. 🚀
I've been testing 4.0 for weeks and it’s *so* refreshing. Bravo @lukesbeard + team.
Been using the beta for a couple weeks now and I love this app. I’m not always the most fitness oriented but being able to see my friends and have an amazing (and fun) app experience is everything.
All my friends are on it now, thank you!! Can’t wait to see what you do next.
Seriously one of the most impressively executed apps on the design side. The pace of development and community-focused approach has been incredible to watch. Excited to see the launch of Active Clubs and see where this fresh take on activity tracking goes!
About Any Distance 4.0: Active Clubs on Product Hunt
“A new social network for your active lifestyle”
Any Distance 4.0: Active Clubs launched on Product Hunt on May 4th, 2023 and earned 215 upvotes and 58 comments, placing #8 on the daily leaderboard. An active life social network that prioritizes close connections. Build your Active Club with up to 100 friends and support each other in a positive, inclusive environment. Privacy-focused, customizable, and compatible with popular fitness apps.
Any Distance 4.0: Active Clubs was featured in Health & Fitness (82.5k followers), Privacy (11k followers) and Apple (15.4k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 36.5k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Any Distance 4.0: Active Clubs?
Any Distance 4.0: Active Clubs was hunted by Luke Beard. 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.
Reviews
Any Distance 4.0: Active Clubs has received 12 reviews on Product Hunt with an average rating of 5.00/5. Read all reviews on Product Hunt.
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