Launch HN: Quell (YC S20) – Immersive gaming and combat workout

📰 Hacker News · douglaspaul

Hey HN, We're Cam, Doug, Lorenzo and Martin, co-founders of Quell ( https://quell.tech ). Quell is an immersive fitness game which guides players through an exciting, effective combat workout at home. Players fight enemies with a low-cost wearable which uses smart resistance bands to simulate real combat training. Our aim is to be Peloton meets gaming meets boxing, at 1/10th of the price. We launched on Kickstarter yesterday, and would love it if you checked us out! Here’s the link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/quelltech/quell-real-ga... We started building Quell because for us, exercise wasn’t fun; it was work. We’d tried all the stats tracking apps and the cycling simulators, but they weren’t treating that root problem. Over time, as the novelty wore off, we were left with the feeling that working out was still boring and uncomfortable. As big gamers, gamification seemed like an obvious solution. We looked at what was happening in

Published 19 Aug 2020
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