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Shopping for groceries. I made a website which lets my wife and I pick recipes and any "one off" items we need for the week. The code figures out which ingredients it should buy (p…

My brother and I are about to release yet another spiritual successor to Lemmings [0]. It has similar gameplay, but more interesting items (flip gravity, portal guns, etc.) and tri…

(Sorry, rereading what I wrote makes it sound pretty slanderous). Not sure if you'll be doubling back on this, but I thought I'd respond anyway. I was talking about the mobile web …

That's awesome that you got inspired by my picture. That hike is inspiring, probably my favorite of all time. Thanks for the feedback too. I want to support finding nearby hikes in…

A lot of the pictures up there are ones I've taken. There are others that I've pulled from flickr (after first getting permission from the photographer), for example, the landscape…

My idea for the future Discover page was that you'd be able to filter the results by location, distance, elevation etc. I'm already using Google's jsapi to zoom the map into your l…

Here's my concern with ads. Even if I managed a 2% CTR with a subtle ad, I'd still have 98% of my users carefully avoiding a part of the page that could be devoted to something els…

I'm going to be looking into OSM because of comments here. I've also looked at MapBox but last time I tried the mobile web experience was basically unusable (although Google Maps i…

Ah got it. At the moment, it would tell you that there are no hikes named "Seattle", since search only works on the name of the hike. When I add support for searching by location (…

I can see how that would be terribly confusing. Currently, search only works for the name of the hike. I've added an issue - https://github.com/zaknelson/hike.io/issues/24

If it's any consolation, I'm using the metric system on the backend and plan to add the ability to change your default units. I don't want hike.io to be US-centric. Multi-trail cir…

I was hoping that distance + elevation could give a sense of the difficulty without having to create a "difficulty scale". The problem I always have with such scales is that each s…

I'm not sure I understand the question: "Do place names show hikes in a specific radius?" Are you talking about the orange dots on the map? They correspond to a single hike. That i…

Awesome feedback. Especially the part about making the "adding an entry" part easier, it didn't dawn on me that some of that information is redundant. The reason I've been writing …

I appreciate it! For your app idea, if there's anything that fits into hike.io's domain and you want to discuss it, feel free to shoot me an email.

That one was all me. I did the hike, took the pictures, and typed it up. And actually most of the hikes I wrote, although I'm starting to get edits from others. One great example i…

That's a good question. At this point, I'd say just add it, since I'd rather have more data. If it becomes a popular resource, I suppose the site will need a clearer definition of …

This one was just added by someone on HN. It's a bit like Wikipedia's stub articles. It's not that useful at the moment, but there's something here that should be expanded on in th…

Here was my reasoning. There are 3 main use cases: 1. I know exactly which hike I'm looking for. I type it in, and there it is (I know that currently that is almost never true, but…

Maybe it's a loop hike? I'm not sure, I will have to ask my girlfriend, she added that one :)

Thanks! All changes go through a review process before they are pushed live. I get an email for each change and then can either accept or reject it. I'm using Mailgun to do the mai…

I appreciate the feedback, especially as a fellow hiker. A number of people now have mentioned that the first page is not working, so that's something I'm going to reevaluate. I ne…

Trip reports are something I've been thinking about adding for a while. The problem I face at the moment is that they're only useful is you have a very active community. I'm still …