The first five years

You know those stories about successful American companies that started in garages? Apple, Google, Microsoft, and others say so. Well, so do we. I mean, only Patrik and Vera, Standa lived in a nice ground floor apartment :-) So we are not nearly as successful as other "garage dwellers", but I dare say we are much happier than any of them.

The idea of creating Horobraní was born on a walk together in the autumn fog under Jested. Up until then we had only done local outdoor and weekend events. We wondered if we should try something with a bigger scope beyond the borders of Liberec. And Standa thought if we could make an app to save the peaks. We immediately thought it was a good idea, but we figured that something like this already exists. So we started looking. We looked, we found a lot of things, but nothing that matched our ideas.

So we took the plunge, and we thought we'd give it a go. We were able to get started right away because Patrick is a programmer. We got a basic database of Czech peaks and Věrka and Standa digitized the borders of Czech mountain ranges. We put it all together and had the first unpublished functional version of the Horobraní app.

Věrka and Patrik were in Tenerife at the time, putting the finishing touches on the app. We created two fictional peaks Standa fake (in Liberec) and Patrik fake (in Tenerife), so we could test the app "in the field".

Everything went well and the project is still running after five years! We hope that you will continue to enjoy it as much as we do :-)

It's simple! You have from Friday to Sunday to climb at least five peaks. But the challenge has three levels, which we named after ourselves. From Patrik to Standa to Vera. Who can touch them all? :-D