Hey Product Hunt! I'm Gareth, the maker of Gauntlet.
The idea came from a simple frustration: fitness accountability is broken. I've made verbal bets with friends a dozen times — "loser buys dinner if I don't hit 50km this week" — and they never actually happen. Nobody tracks it, nobody pays up.
Gauntlet makes those bets real. Connect Strava, pick a challenge (run/cycle/swim), set the distance, stake some USDC, and your friend accepts. Strava data auto-verifies the result. Winner gets paid on-chain. No manual settlement, no "I forgot", no awkward chasing.
The tech: on-chain USDC on Base, Strava webhooks for automated verification, non-custodial so we never hold your money. The whole payout flow runs on-chain — we just trigger it.
I've been running it for a few months. The behavioral effect is real — even a $10 stake changes how seriously you take a run. Loss aversion is a more powerful motivator than any fitness app streak.
It's free to join. You only put money in when you enter a challenge.
Happy to answer any questions — ask me anything about the tech, the design decisions, or what's coming next. And if you try it, I'd love feedback.
gauntlet.bet
About Gauntlet on Product Hunt
“Bet your friends on Strava challenges and losers pay in USDC”
Gauntlet launched on Product Hunt on April 8th, 2026 and earned 87 upvotes and 5 comments, placing #17 on the daily leaderboard. Stake real money on fitness challenges. Complete activities on Strava. Winners take the pot.
On the analytics side, Gauntlet competes within Health & Fitness, Productivity and Web3 — topics that collectively have 740.1k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Gauntlet performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Gauntlet?
Gauntlet was hunted by Gareth Edwards. 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 Gauntlet including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
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