How Walk With Me Came to Be

I love walking. A lot. I do it primarily to clear my mind, reflect on past events, and for fitness purposes. So every time I can, I just go for a walk. It doesn't matter where, how long, or what I'd do on that walk. I just turn on the music and go. I enjoy it. It's my "me" time and I feel relaxed and worked after a good walk at a good pace. Finding people who love walking is no easy task, but the thing is, I see these "solo walkers" around me all the time: at the park, in the streets, at monuments and famous places, and this is when I realized I wasn't alone. There are many others who also love walking, just like me!

I have a very close and good friend of mine, and one of the reasons we got along well was that he loves walking too. He's definitely stricter with his walks and routines, and he sticks to them more often than me. It's part of his daily routine to go out on walks, and he also genuinely loves the activity. When we first both started walking together, we both quickly realized that WOW, walking with someone is actually enjoyable. Not just training or practicing together, but just having a walk that could end in a meal, in a drink, somewhere interesting. It doesn't matter, every walk was different, and the type of discussions we had and the points we raised were always interesting. Even during days when neither of us felt particularly talkative, we still found interesting topics happening around us that were great conversation starters.

And this is when my walking experience turned social. I started asking more and more people to walk with me, to just go out for a walk wherever and have fun talking, and surprisingly, the reception was fantastic. I found out that actually, there are so many people who love walking as much as I do, and although they might do it for different reasons, they enjoy it as much as I do. This is when the idea slowly started building in my mind.

I still remember it. It was particularly one cold Wednesday in October or November 2025. I had a prior arrangement with my friend to walk that night. I finished with my job, it was 17:00, I asked my friend if he was still down to walk and he told me he had stuff coming up and he'd join me during the weekend. I said no worries and I went for a walk anyway.

That day, I remember, I really wanted someone to talk to. And I remember walking in the city during that cold and thinking, "Oh man, it would be nice if I had someone to walk with right now." And then I kept thinking, "Is there some kind of an app where you open it, and you can literally see people walk?" I was imagining some kind of a nice map with live walks happening right now shown as green markers and scheduled ones shown as calendars, and I could literally see this UI in my head:

I pulled my phone and while walking I started researching the topic, and what do you know? There was no such thing. At all! There are some apps that match you with others in the area who want to walk in a Tinder-style fashion where you swipe right or left for walking buddies (a really strange concept for me, but okay), but there was no other app like Walk With Me. Even the name "Walk With Me" was associated with self-reflective journeys and spiritual apps, which was all the more interesting to see this brand not associated with what it literally has in its title: the act of "walking" "with" someone. So when during that walk I realized the gap, I remember I turned 180 degrees and headed straight home and got to work.

3 months later, Walk With Me shipped to iOS and Android with its full features and functionalities, and I couldn't be prouder of this achievement.