Peak IRL. Peak in real life.
Live at your peak.
In real life.
PeakIRL scores the eight parts of your life on one card you actually want to look at. Then it does the thing no other tracker does. It sends you back outside.
Building now for iOS. One email when it opens, nothing else, ever.
A strong month. Form high, Social the quiet one.
Games first.
Then a hiking group.
Scott spent years in games. Thousands of hours, competitively, and enough of them running communities inside them to know exactly what that world is good at. Then he took a look at who he was becoming in that space, decided it was not the person he wanted to be, and left. His own call, and it was done years before any of this.
He moved to Southern California about four years ago, already finished with games. What he felt then was a pull to do something with community in person, so he ran a hiking group for his church, every other week. It started small. It got large. People kept showing up, and not because of the hike. Because of how it felt to be there.
PeakIRL is those two, in that order, meeting in the middle. Games are very good at making progress visible, at letting you see yourself getting somewhere. The hike is the proof that a welcoming space, held consistently, changes people. Neither half is the idea on its own.
Eleven rules, and
some of them are tests.
PeakIRL has a Code. It is not a values page written after the fact. Several of these are enforced by tests in the app, because a principle that is only prose gets forgotten. Here are four of them, all four already true in the build.
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Real life comes first.
The purpose of PeakIRL is to get you out into the world, not to keep you staring at PeakIRL. Nothing here rewards time spent in the app.
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Progress should be visible.
Two numbers, never one. How you are doing right now, and how far you have climbed in total. The second one never falls.
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Show up. That is the win.
Celebrate effort, not perfection. A one-thing day counts. Partial credit always.
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Everyone starts somewhere.
There is no embarrassment at Level 1, and no failure state anywhere in PeakIRL. No red, no guilt copy, no streak that breaks and takes four other people down with it.
And then it stops being
something you do alone.
The app is the part you can hold. This is the part being built around it, marked so you can tell the difference at a glance. Nothing below is in the build today and this page will not pretend otherwise.
Crews
ComingA small, real circle. Not an audience, not a feed of strangers, not a scoreboard. The crew sees one thing about each person each day: whether they showed up. Never how much, never how well, never how they compare. Built and being tested now. 18 and over.
Quests, and meeting people
Where this is goingA quest PeakIRL publishes, open for a window, with a badge on the other side. Two people who met here confirming they actually met, and it counting. PeakIRL hikes, run the way the original one was. Decided directions, no code yet, no dates.
None of that is a mock-up.
Built, and on a phone todayThe app is finished and being tested right now. Eight axes on one card, a score that moves with your last thirty days and a level that only ever goes up, one tap per task, and the part that hands you somewhere real to go and do it.
This is what it looks like when a day lands. It is the ordinary event, the one you see often, which is why it is built to be short.
Banked permanently. This number never goes back down.
Be there on day one.
PeakIRL is in build for iOS right now. Leave an address and you will hear from us once, when you can actually download it.
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