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Agreed. Open source ftw! I'd love to see this app.

Having run Cloud66 for the past year, I can say that actually managing infrastructure and dealing with security management such things would have been prohibitively expensive. Clou…

I'd like to chime in here in support of Cloud66. I've been running normal (non-dockerized) Cloud66 for about a year on a wide variety of projects, including the main Bike Index sit…

We've been working on updating our API to V2[1], and decided to go with grape because it automatically generates documentation via grape-swagger[2]. Initially we considered Apiary,…

As someone who doesn't have a car and is broke, investing in my bike makes a lot of sense - public transit costs 100/month[1], my transportation bike cost 800$ and my yearly cost t…

Register your bike. https://bikeindex.org We've successfully recovered thousands of bikes (three in the past two days!). We've made it easy to id stolen bikes, and more difficult t…

Thanks for recommending the Bike Index! We recommend registering even if you have a cheap bike, since it's easy and free. Here's another article about what to do if your bike is st…

We aren't "pretending" to care about honesty and openness, we actually do. Selling users isn't the only way to make money.

User privacy, giving out all of our user's emails for instance would be dishonest since it would completely violate all of our promises to them. And why would us seeking investment…

Yeah, that's essentially what the Jason Cohen talk is about. Our small size is a virtue, since we care a whole lot.

I'm feeling the same way. Had an interesting conversation last night where someone said they would totally give us a bit of money after telling him what we're spending per month an…

Thanks to donw for suggesting the Jason Cohen talk. It's a really good video.

I recently watched a Jason Cohen talk called Naked Business - How Honesty Makes Money[1]. I'm the founder of the Bike Index, and I think we had bought into all the quasi-marketspea…

Thanks!

That's what we've been working on since we started - and why we're open source and have an open API https://bikeindex.org/documentation/api_v1

1. Reporting stolen bikes makes it harder to sell stolen bikes, making bike theft less profitable - and ultimately making it less likely that you'll be looking for a good deal on a…

You should register it before it gets stolen, so that you have all the important information if it does. https://bikeindex.org/bikes/new (you have to create an account)

We're really excited to see more uses for the Index API. Thanks so much for working on this!

Done. It's now "open source bicycle comparison and research"

Ummmm? What? Yeah, Everything is open source and is in the repo. ALL THE DATA IS IN THE REPOSITORY. The repository is deployed, as is, to the internet, it has no database - the dat…

We have shareable urls now! Just added them in. just copy the link on the bottom of the bike. Also prices. That was a good suggestion. Thanks!

Great! Sending you an invitation to register bikes on the Index through Chuck's Bikes too.