Show HN: Compete Hub – discover, share and manage your triathlon race schedule
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Re: Show HN: Compete Hub – discover, share and manage your triathlon race schedule
#2Well design site. Maybe I'll get off my lazy butt and do a triathlon... or not.
How do people keep sites like this up-to-date when there are so many repositories of information and/or small players that are not standardized? Do they have go event by event or store by store? Is there a better way?
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#3Founder here, looking for feedback!
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#4Well design site. Maybe I'll get off my lazy butt and do a triathlon... or not. How do people keep sites like this up-to-date when there are so many repositories of information and/or small players that are not standardized? Do they have go event by event or store by store? Is there a better way?
Let's get you on that bike soon!
re: updating - Good question. Lanyrd did this really well with professional events and Yelp did it with restaurants. It's a unique combination of crowd-sourcing, manual work, and incentivizing the organizers of the events.
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#5Founder here, looking for feedback!
Nice looking site! Just some things I noticed:
-when I search, it's not automatically filtered by date
-when I search "woodlands" I get 0 results but when I search "the woodlands" I get 85, none of which are http://www.ironman.com/triathlon/events/americas/ironman/tex...
-I have no idea what SPR, OLY, and CUS are and when I mouse over them it doesn't tell me anything
But, I'll definitely show this to my more active friends; nicely done!
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#6Really cool. I'm training for my first triathlon now (NYC Tri with Team in Training), and I'm hoping to do many more Olympic-distance Tris thereafter.
Honestly, I've been wanting better training apps (and a good online training community) more than anything. Garmin Connect, for example, has great potential but isn't social enough / doesn't help you discover much beyond your own stats. Obviously that's a harder nut to crack for a relatively small market.
Maybe someday I'll be ready to find more races, though. Nice job!
Re: Show HN: Compete Hub – discover, share and manage your triathlon race schedule
#7Founder here, looking for feedback!
Nice looking site! Just some things I noticed: -when I search, it's not automatically filtered by date -when I search "woodlands" I get 0 results but when I search "the woodlands" I get 85, none of which are http://www.ironman.com/triathlon/events/americas/ironman/tex... -I have no idea what SPR, OLY, and CUS are and when I mouse over them it doesn't tell me anything But, I'll definitely show this to my more active f…
Sweet, thanks for the feedback. CTO is constantly tweaking the search so we can make it as "free form" as possible. We're trying to get away from "filter drop down" hell
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#8Really cool. I'm training for my first triathlon now (NYC Tri with Team in Training), and I'm hoping to do many more Olympic-distance Tris thereafter. Honestly, I've been wanting better training apps (and a good online training community) more than anything. Garmin Connect, for example, has great potential but isn't social enough / doesn't help you discover much beyond your own stats. Obviously that's a harder nut to…
Have you checked out Strava for the training stuff? They're getting more and more triathletes on there.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nice looking site! Just some things I noticed: -when I search, it's not automatically filtered by date -when I search "woodlands" I get 0 results but when I search "the woodlands" I get 85, none of which are http://www.ironman.com/triathlon/events/americas/ironman/tex... -I have no idea what SPR, OLY, and CUS are and when I mouse over them it doesn't tell me anything But, I'll definitely show this to my more active f…
Sweet, thanks for the feedback. CTO is constantly tweaking the search so we can make it as "free form" as possible. We're trying to get away from "filter drop down" hell
Check out Elasticsearch as a search index. It does a pretty good job of full text searches, and it's free. I use it for a lot of my projects, and I think it's one of the better ones out there. Let me know if I can help! Good luck!
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#10My girlfriend is a triathlete. She'll love the crap out of this. I'm just a runner, so it's not really my cup of tea. I'll get her to sign up tonight and try and submit some feedback.