Why 108
108 is one of the most sacred numbers across ancient traditions. In Hinduism, there are 108 Upanishads and 108 sacred sites throughout India. In Buddhism, there are 108 earthly temptations a person must overcome to reach enlightenment, and mala prayer beads come in strings of 108.
The number appears in the cosmos too. The distance between the Earth and the Sun is roughly 108 times the Sun's diameter. The distance between the Earth and the Moon is roughly 108 times the Moon's diameter. In yoga, 108 sun salutations mark the change of seasons.
It's a number that keeps showing up wherever humans have looked for meaning in movement, stillness, and the relationship between body and universe.
We chose it because 108 isn't about optimization. It's about acknowledgment. Showing up. The quiet discipline of doing something good for yourself, day after day.
Who built it
Nicho brought Insight Timer to market, growing it into the world's largest meditation app by users. His background is rooted in the intersection of technology and wellbeing, and the belief that the best health tools get out of your way and let you live your life.
Garth is the technical co-founder and the founder of Physiokey, the human verification platform. He brings a deep history in enterprise application development, blockchain, and security. He builds systems that respect the people who use them.
The problem
Health has been commoditized. It's become a subscription model designed to make you chase and obsess over metrics. That matters for some people, but for most, the missing piece isn't more data. It's recognition. A reason to keep going.
Corporate wellness programs are too rigid. Loyalty programs are siloed, often ruined by data harvesting. And the "move-to-earn" wave tied rewards to complicated and speculative crypto trading, turning healthy habits into a gimmick most people couldn't understand, let alone trust.
Nobody is simply saying: you moved today. That counts, and we put numbers to it.
The vision
We're building an open ecosystem that motivates and incentivizes people to move, sleep, recover, and care for their bodies and their mental health.
108 is designed to be a layer that sits on top of every app, wearable, and connected device that allows you to authenticate on our platform. It only acknowledges the effort you put in. It doesn't sell your problems back to you. It doesn't sell your data to the highest bidder. We don't store your health data, we don't sell it, and we don't use it against you. We use it for you.
Self-sovereignty and ownership of our own data is a long-term goal. We will keep building in a direction where people take back full control of their health data. Not because it's trendy, but because it's right.