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Re: Show HN: I am building a free version of Strava

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Post by jerlam »

michaelje wrote: post #49
jerlam wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Strava already has the ability to plan group rides/runs, associated with a club. You have to be one of the admins though. Club -> Add Club Event Specify time, meetup location, route, repeat interval, etc.

No - it has to be more casual. I don’t want to force people to join a/my/some club. I want to let my followers and friends see I plan to do a 80km ride Saturday morning and let them simply tag along. It could easily be integrated into the feed or as a separate section. I’d argue social activity is one of the biggest opportunities for Strava to lock themselves in as the hub of all movement activity - but it requires s…

If it's that casual, you could post a message on your feed and tag people you want to be notified.

Re: Show HN: I am building a free version of Strava

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Post by thallada »

karamanolev wrote: post #21

I'm an avid cyclist and I pay for Strava premium. I really like a lot of the things Strava offers and also have a lot of dislikes. I've thought about making a competing product and also offering it for free or at least much cheaper. It sounds easy at first, but there is so much Strava does. When you go in depth, no wonder Strava is an actual company and not 3 geeks and their spare time. For serious athletes, Strava o…

Garmin has an integration with Strava to automatically sync activities: https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/216918057-Garmi...

This is how I record all of my activities to Strava. There's no need for an external sync service.

Re: Show HN: I am building a free version of Strava

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Post by [deleted] »

TomVDB wrote: post #38
karamanolev wrote: post #21

I'm an avid cyclist and I pay for Strava premium. I really like a lot of the things Strava offers and also have a lot of dislikes. I've thought about making a competing product and also offering it for free or at least much cheaper. It sounds easy at first, but there is so much Strava does. When you go in depth, no wonder Strava is an actual company and not 3 geeks and their spare time. For serious athletes, Strava o…

For me, the killer feature of Strava is… veloviewer.com.

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Re: Show HN: I am building a free version of Strava

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Post by eckza »

michaelje wrote: post #18

What are the key differentiators to get me to use this over Strava where people already are? A quick look and some MTB specific metrics like hangtime? A killer feature for Strava (or anyone in the social activity game) would be allowing me to setup social rides with my followers/friends. For example, I plan on doing this loop at 8am Saturday - and anyone who follows can hit ‘+1’ and let me know I’ll join. Where I liv…

> key differentiators

From browsing comments, nobody on HN rides downhill. Which makes sense. A solid year of no concussions from some forced time off (hey titanium rods, what's up) and I'm a better programmer than I've ever been.

But anyway.

Strava won't track downhill runs as separate from the lift ride. Everyone agrees that this sucks. Nobody has made a move at a solution (as far as I know).

If MTBX has solved this problem, and no others, it's worth its weight in gold.

Re: Show HN: I am building a free version of Strava

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Post by stephencoyner »

Paying Strava user and big cyclist here.

One thing I wish Strava would add - better route discovery. I know they recently added “routes” to the maps tab that you can filter based on elevation and distance, but I find they only show the same 2-3 routes every time I look.

Because of this, I’ve ended up going to segments I ride on, looking at the top performers of the day, then checking their routes to discover new places to ride.

If they had “route influencers” or some way to tap into the vast local knowledges that some users have I would love that.

Re: Show HN: I am building a free version of Strava

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Post by jasoneisen »

I have long wanted to see a competitor in this space, however I always assumed Strava’s patent [0] on segments was the reason why one could never exist.

Have you thought about how you would defend yourself in a patent infringement suit?

[0] Defining and matching segments https://patents.google.com/patent/US9116922B2/en

Re: Show HN: I am building a free version of Strava

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Post by Gigachad »

stephencoyner wrote: post #57

Paying Strava user and big cyclist here. One thing I wish Strava would add - better route discovery. I know they recently added “routes” to the maps tab that you can filter based on elevation and distance, but I find they only show the same 2-3 routes every time I look. Because of this, I’ve ended up going to segments I ride on, looking at the top performers of the day, then checking their routes to discover new plac…

These days I end up just designing the routes myself and tweaking them as I ride them. The problem is any premade routes won't be designed around your particular starting point.

Re: Show HN: I am building a free version of Strava

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Post by robotburrito »

I have played with this sort of thing as well. I always ran into an issue where I had to manually upload the .fit or .gpx files from my Wahoo/Garmin device to my site.

I couldn't figure out how to have the devices just automatically send the data where I wanted it to go once you hit the stop/save button on them.

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