Gains App is the first fitness platform where competition is a service you can summon. Available on iOS and Android, the app turns workouts into live competitions with real stakes and performance-based payouts in real time. Creators host challenges. Athletes compete. Top performers earn performance-based payouts via Stripe in 1–2 minutes.
Three roles inside the app:
Creator / Judge
You host the challenge and you judge it. You earn from judging each event, and the payout is sent as soon as you submit the results.
Competitor
You join a challenge and compete live. Winners receive a performance-based payout.
Spectator
You watch live competitions or scroll through the Feed to see athlete performances. You follow other users, chat with the community, and vote for your favorite athlete.
Types of Challenges
Challenges can run anywhere from 1 minute to 30 minutes.
Hayes Kanyike is the founder and CEO of Gains App.
Born in Kampala, Uganda, he came to the United States as a refugee at age 11. He earned his personal trainer certification in 2010 and founded Hayes4Fitness in 2014, a Poughkeepsie studio for one-on-one training. Members could work with registered nutritionists, chiropractors, and mental wellness counselors. The studio focused on the whole person.
He later partnered with a Brooklyn real estate developer to launch Culture Health Club, the gym and wellness provider for residential buildings across New York. Members could follow their training as they went, and they had access to a nutritionist, a chiropractor, and a psychotherapist. Both businesses closed during the COVID-19 lockdown.
Determined to bring Gains App to life, he taught himself to code and built the platform on his own in under a year.
Earlier in his career, he was asked to serve as a fitness expert by the U.S. Army Reserves, the New York State Department of Corrections, Marist College, the City of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County Tourism, and New York school districts. He served a two-year term on the City of Poughkeepsie Common Council's Waterfront Advisory Committee. He has also volunteered with Wappingers School, Brother to Brother, the U.S. Army Reserves, and the Dutchess County Chamber of Commerce.
He continues to build technology for physical, mental, and emotional wellness.
