We have nothing but respect for Kuya Boy and Ate Mitch, the couple behind TTB Tracker. Kuya Boy is a hardcore off-road rider whose weekends look like nightmare trails through terrain where Google Maps still shows blank tiles. Ate Mitch is the operational partner who keeps the whole ship steady.
They came to Pixelzero with an idea that had been sitting in Kuya Boy's head for a while, an app that could actually keep tabs on a crew scattered across a mountain where no other tracker would work, and we were honored they trusted us to build it.
The idea was born on a long drive home. Kuya Boy needed a tracker for his hardcore trail rides, and Neithan wanted one for his very much opposite sub-45kph cruises around Naga when Jen would send him out to buy ice or chips. Somewhere between those two extremes, TTB Tracker took shape as a live map, ride logger, and events app for anyone who moves. You can see your whole crew on one map in real time, even with the screen off or the signal patchy. You can record solo or group rides and turn them into beautiful satellite ride reports with your route, stats, and selfies pinned to the exact spot you took them. You can save every trail as a hairline on your home map so you end up with a quiet visual diary of everywhere you've been.
What we really set out to build though, the north star of the whole thing, was a tracker that could run an entire FJMoto format event from start to finish in one place. Organizing one of these usually means juggling a Viber group for coordination, a separate tracking device to follow everyone, and a manual scramble to collect checkpoint selfies.
We wanted to fold every piece of that into a single tool. In TTB Tracker, the organizer builds the entire course right on the map, drops each checkpoint exactly where it needs to be, and riders sign up, form their teams, and roll out. During the event, everyone moves live on the organizer's map, while each rider only ever sees their own next checkpoint so the hunt stays fair and nobody can skip ahead. Teams snap a selfie to prove they hit a checkpoint, the organizer approves it with a tap, and the next one unlocks. Standings update in real time. At the end, every selfie from every team gets gathered into one shared event album to relive afterwards. No more Viber chaos, no more extra gadgets, no more manual tallying.
Outside of the FJMoto format, the app tries to be your True Trip Buddy for solo and group adventures alike, with a feed built just for riders (basically if Facebook, Strava, and OsmAnd had a child, this would be it), and simple gamification through badges from Bronze up to Onyx — Night Rider for the after-dark runs, Mountain Goat for the elevation chasers, Distance Demon for the long-ride junkies, and Chill Rider for the sub-45kph crowd (yes we included a badge for us noobs, we gotchuu 🤝). There's also Paint Wars, a month-long minigame where you color the cells you move across and capture territory just by riding. Kuya Boy has said that if this flies, actual motorcycles will be awarded to riders who collect certain badge sets. We'll see if we get enough players.
Huge thanks to Hart Ababon for the icons and art, to Sam Bercasio and Clarize Famisaran for being our gamification ideation buddies, and to the 90+ riders, cyclists, and runners who pushed the beta until it broke and told us exactly what needed fixing. If you ride, run, or otherwise move, check out ttbtracker.com or grab it from the Play Store.
Passo bem solto, and see you on the map.