Manifesto

Our mission is to give as many people as possible easy access to meaningful health and fitness metrics and empowering them to take conscious ownership of their lifestyle and long-term wellbeing.

We believe:

1. Health doesn’t need a subscription trap.

2. Data belongs to the user, not the company.

3. Sustainable and profitable business models matter more than forced growth just to generate shareholder value.

4. Technology should support and not confuse, manipulate, or even intimidate.

That’s why Zyke Band stands for:

1. One price. One device. No subscription required.

2. Your data stays on your device, local, secure, and always accessible.

3. All essential features are available to you permanently.

4. We only promise what’s realistically achievable with today’s biometric data.

5. And if this project ever ends or fails, we guarantee: everything required to keep it running – app, firmware, protocols – will be made open source and freely available.

How do we fund all this – without a subscription?

We believe there’s a better way: fair, sustainable, and truly user-focused.

We don’t want to create artificial dependency through recurring monthly fees. Instead, we rely on two simple things:

1. A genuinely great product.

If the Zyke Band and our app are great, more people will hear about it and make a conscious choice to join.

And when we develop future generations of the tracker, we want existing users to want to upgrade, because the improvements are worth it, not because they’re locked into a model that forces them to.

2. Optional accessories at a fair price.

We’re starting with wrist and armbands in different colors, so you can personalize your device to match your style.

In the future, we plan to offer alternative materials as well. These accessories provide additional value for you, and an honest source of revenue for us.

At the same time, we’re keeping our organization intentionally lean.
We want to remain as independent as possible and raise little or no external capital, so we can always make decisions based on what’s right for our users, not for investor returns.

Because we’re building Zyke with a clear goal:

A company sustained by its customers, not its shareholders.

We’re not building this product to sell it off to a data giant in a few years.

We’re building it because we need it ourselves.
And because no one should have to trade control over their own health data for a subscription.

With full conviction,

 

Phil Schaffarzyk
Founder of Zyke