Luca

Founder confirmed Luca had shut down the previous week; October 29, 2025 is the dated retrospective proxy, not its exact service cutoff.

Sources and shutdown details ↘

Mental health & personal growth · Closed; date inferred · 29 Oct 2025 · Observed closed by · Not the verified service cutoff · SNOWTIAL SL

The record

An AI running coach on WhatsApp and a companion app that created adaptive training plans, analyzed workouts and answered runners’ questions.

Operator at shutdown: SNOWTIAL SL Company source
Service end: Closed; date inferred · 29 Oct 2025Observed closed by · Not the verified service cutoffClosure source

Sources and verification

Luca co-founder completed-shutdown retrospective ↗ · Checked 14 Oct 2026

Verification notes

Shutdown: The co-founder’s October 29, 2025 retrospective says the startup shut down the prior week and describes the named Luca WhatsApp coach and companion app with paying users, adaptive running plans, analysis and AI conversations. The displayed October 29 day is an inferred dated confirmation proxy, not an asserted actual cutoff. The original Luca landing page remains visible and links to a legacy sign-up path now returning unavailable; retained marketing is not evidence of continued generation. The first customer-facing shutdown announcement, exact technical end hour and timezone are not established. The operator’s original legal notice names SNOWTIAL SL and its registered Madrid address; this proves a registered place, not the live server location or an audited operating headquarters. The original site shoe favicon was raster-vectorized for identification with all rights retained. No account, WhatsApp session, subscription, personal training advice or data deletion was tested. Closure source
Dates checked: Verified 14 Oct 2026
AI functionality: AI functionality source
Launch: The founder dates a paid MVP to early 2024 and a broader launch to winter 2024–25, without establishing a first public availability day.
Location: Spain · Madrid. The original legal notice supplies SNOWTIAL SL’s registered address in Madrid, Spain; registered-office evidence only, not proof of operating headquarters. Coordinates use the GeoNames populated-place point rounded to two decimal places for the city-level globe marker, not an office or server address. Location source · Coordinate source