Little birdies tell me VanMoof has officially collapsed. They'll be making a statement shortly.
If you own one of their bikes now is the time to grab your encryption keys before their servers go offline.
Edit: Linking to the "Bikey" app which is a lot easier to use: https://bikey-app.cowboy.bike
@phill oh shit…
@phill shit up. They just went offline like that?!? Will all bikes become useless now?
@eierund Can still unlock and change settings, but certain parts of the app have gone offline (ride data, maps).
@phill incredible. And that bike breaks all the time. Without replacement parts they’ll all be worthless pretty quickly anyways
@eierund yeah not ideal!
@phill today in Berlin the bikes are running. Maybe using a vpn with a German network
@Iudex030 the app can still unlock, just a question mark around long term support for it.
@phill I have seen so many of their bikes riding around both the USA and when I visited the Netherlands.
Hopefully someone is able to provide support for these bikes. They seem like they have a lot of proprietary parts
@phill in case this is helpful to anyone, Cowboy is apparently working on an app to locally generate the encryption key https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/13/23793591/cowboy-vanmoof-key-app-download-ios-android
@phill oh fuck :(