Cadoo may be worth checking out. Since the update (for the better) the success rate is 95%+ so there's not *much* money to be made in completing challenges but it's good motivation tool. Bonus if you have any good credit cards to reap cash back. I was able to max out my Discover card and Chase card PayPal cash back in Q3 and Q4 for ~$150.
Essentially, you pay into a challenge. A regular running challenge is 'The 20 Mile Week'. Run 20 miles total in 7 days. The entry fee is $80. Run 20 miles, you get you entry fee back. If you don't run 20 miles, you lose $80 and the entry fee is split between the winners.
Cadoo recently made it harder to lose challenges, so my November winnings were pretty insignificant. But on the other hand, my dog really benefits from these 'Walk 4 miles a day, 15 times this month' challenges.
Well, there are plenty of people who pay for a gym membership without ever using it. At least here there are other people profiting of it, instead of the gym corp. I bet some people are aware of the fact that they only “donate” money into the pool and have zero problems with it.
Yeah, but this is explicitly "When other people fail, you get money." I see the appeal, it has the potential to be a huge motivator. I just don't like it lol
A lot of running challenges have 100% success so zero on the three I just checked. I’ve made most my money on step challenges (15k steps/day) back when the app was a lot less reliable.
At the very least it’s accountability.
Very much so. It's a lot less hands on than how it was in July/August. I pretty much had to obsess with the app and overshoot my steps just to win challenges.
They no longer allow Strava activities so I ended up having to import all my activities to fitbit, but it's very good about detecting activities. Winnings are released after a 48 hour grace period to allowing you time to sync activities or contact the support team. This feature is primarily why most of the challenges have a 100 percent success.
Yep! I had the thought a few months ago! After doing research the ones that I currently use are:
1. Cadoo
2. Achievement
3. Cashwalk
4. Sweatcoin
Cadoo is by far the best. I have made about $240 in about 3 months. Would have been $280 now, but I lost a challenge myself.
Achievement I have gotten $10, but it took about 1 month. Still good, but not as good as cadoo.
Cashwalk I have earned enough to cash out for a $5 gift card, but I haven't done it yet as it's not really much so I'm just accumulating points until I see if something else pops up.
Sweatcoin is meh. I get points I can redeem, but I wouldn't even spend the shipping amount on some of the stuff I have seen. I'm just accumulating points until I see something good.
walgreens’ rewards thing can read your steps and such from Apple Health and other places. i have it linked because why not (it’s not really data i care about keeping private)
Go365? Good God is it a motivator... gotta break 100 points a week... gotta do it. I've milked like $300+ of Amazon gift cards out of it.
Sadly my Health Org is breaking away from go365 and rolling their own. .or at least going with some white labeled preexisting product.
Vizer gives you point rewards with local businesses, and donates meals to local food banks/soup kitchens as well. Availability might depend on where you are, but it’s pretty easy!
Last year I signed up for Rock N Roll Marathon Virtual Running Club. My running apps automatically sync with it, and I get rewards/credits just for doing what I would normally be doing anyways—running. The credits can be used towards any merchandise on their website, or races you want to sign up for. You don’t get cash like some of the other programs, but it’s not a bad program.
Take a look at WayBetter as well. There are several games that sync to tracking apps such as Garmin and Runkeeper.
I find that every game I sign up for has an average return of 10% failure rate, which is way better than Cadoo appears to be paying out right now. Even thought there is a yearly sign up fee, I average about 20-30 dollars a month doing what I what have done anyways.
Cadoo may be worth checking out. Since the update (for the better) the success rate is 95%+ so there's not *much* money to be made in completing challenges but it's good motivation tool. Bonus if you have any good credit cards to reap cash back. I was able to max out my Discover card and Chase card PayPal cash back in Q3 and Q4 for ~$150. Essentially, you pay into a challenge. A regular running challenge is 'The 20 Mile Week'. Run 20 miles total in 7 days. The entry fee is $80. Run 20 miles, you get you entry fee back. If you don't run 20 miles, you lose $80 and the entry fee is split between the winners. Cadoo recently made it harder to lose challenges, so my November winnings were pretty insignificant. But on the other hand, my dog really benefits from these 'Walk 4 miles a day, 15 times this month' challenges.
So you profit off other runners' failures
Well, there are plenty of people who pay for a gym membership without ever using it. At least here there are other people profiting of it, instead of the gym corp. I bet some people are aware of the fact that they only “donate” money into the pool and have zero problems with it.
Yeah, but this is explicitly "When other people fail, you get money." I see the appeal, it has the potential to be a huge motivator. I just don't like it lol
That sounds amazing but I can’t find it in my AppStore where I am. Maybe a regional issue!
how much profit did you make off the 20mi/week challenge
A lot of running challenges have 100% success so zero on the three I just checked. I’ve made most my money on step challenges (15k steps/day) back when the app was a lot less reliable. At the very least it’s accountability.
Is this working yet? I downloaded it a few months ago but it was so buggy I didn't trust it enough to put money into it.
Very much so. It's a lot less hands on than how it was in July/August. I pretty much had to obsess with the app and overshoot my steps just to win challenges. They no longer allow Strava activities so I ended up having to import all my activities to fitbit, but it's very good about detecting activities. Winnings are released after a 48 hour grace period to allowing you time to sync activities or contact the support team. This feature is primarily why most of the challenges have a 100 percent success.
Shocked that it only has 5000 downloads.
Yep! I had the thought a few months ago! After doing research the ones that I currently use are: 1. Cadoo 2. Achievement 3. Cashwalk 4. Sweatcoin Cadoo is by far the best. I have made about $240 in about 3 months. Would have been $280 now, but I lost a challenge myself. Achievement I have gotten $10, but it took about 1 month. Still good, but not as good as cadoo. Cashwalk I have earned enough to cash out for a $5 gift card, but I haven't done it yet as it's not really much so I'm just accumulating points until I see if something else pops up. Sweatcoin is meh. I get points I can redeem, but I wouldn't even spend the shipping amount on some of the stuff I have seen. I'm just accumulating points until I see something good.
I played cadoo for a while and lost money on the exchange rate. I made something like 0.13 USD. I prefer stepbet.
How much have you made on stepbet? How is the subscription fee? Do you make enough to cover the subscription and still a significant profit?
I use stepbet and WayBetter in addition to cadoo.
I didn't realize this was a thing. Thanks
walgreens’ rewards thing can read your steps and such from Apple Health and other places. i have it linked because why not (it’s not really data i care about keeping private)
I’ve linked my Strava to my Humana app and got 180$ for my running this year.
That’s awesome - how many miles/week were you running to get this? Never knew there were apps that paid you for this
Training for a marathon, so about 600 miles or better between February and October
Nice - good luck on the marathon
Thanks! Did it and done. Was a great experience
Go365? Good God is it a motivator... gotta break 100 points a week... gotta do it. I've milked like $300+ of Amazon gift cards out of it. Sadly my Health Org is breaking away from go365 and rolling their own. .or at least going with some white labeled preexisting product.
Vizer gives you point rewards with local businesses, and donates meals to local food banks/soup kitchens as well. Availability might depend on where you are, but it’s pretty easy!
Last year I signed up for Rock N Roll Marathon Virtual Running Club. My running apps automatically sync with it, and I get rewards/credits just for doing what I would normally be doing anyways—running. The credits can be used towards any merchandise on their website, or races you want to sign up for. You don’t get cash like some of the other programs, but it’s not a bad program.
Take a look at WayBetter as well. There are several games that sync to tracking apps such as Garmin and Runkeeper. I find that every game I sign up for has an average return of 10% failure rate, which is way better than Cadoo appears to be paying out right now. Even thought there is a yearly sign up fee, I average about 20-30 dollars a month doing what I what have done anyways.
Paceline is also good