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Open source bike comparison and review

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Re: Open source bike comparison and review

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Post by pimeys »

aalpbalkan wrote: post #24

It is pretty good you have lots of brands already in your database, however the comparison UI is not much helpful. e.g. an end-user of bikes might not understand what 105, Tiagra, Ultrega means and just showing specs is not enough IMO. How about you also compare components one by one in rows of a table for each bike and then greens/reds tell us which one is better?

It's not always so easy to say which component is better than the other. A good example are Shimano systems: if you compare Ultegra with Dura-ace, depending on your use, either one of them can be the better choice.

For people like myself, this is quite useful service. It would be even better to quickly find similar bikes in the same price range and compare them together.

And please, add Rose bikes to the database...

Re: Open source bike comparison and review

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Post by websitescenes »

I love this! I am a programmer by week and bicycle shop owner on the weekend. I build the website, point of sale and app for the shop while my partner runs most of the day to day. I would love to use the API to pull in relevant bicycles to the website and app for the shop.

Re: Open source bike comparison and review

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Post by bike_index »

websitescenes wrote: post #42

I love this! I am a programmer by week and bicycle shop owner on the weekend. I build the website, point of sale and app for the shop while my partner runs most of the day to day. I would love to use the API to pull in relevant bicycles to the website and app for the shop.

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

Re: Open source bike comparison and review

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Post by websitescenes »

bike_index wrote: post #43
websitescenes wrote: post #42

I love this! I am a programmer by week and bicycle shop owner on the weekend. I build the website, point of sale and app for the shop while my partner runs most of the day to day. I would love to use the API to pull in relevant bicycles to the website and app for the shop.

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

Thx! Just signed up. Chuck's Bicycle Repair will support you guys however we can.

Re: Open source bike comparison and review

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Post by bike_index »

nl wrote: post #36

Looks pretty useful! A few notes: Each page should have a unique URL. That makes it a lot more sharable. Different markets have different bikes. For example, the CAAD X Sora ( http://www.cannondale.com/catalog/product/view/id/31945/s/ca... - I'd link to it on Bike.io but I can't...) isn't available in Australia. For other manufactures we get bikes the US get - I know Cervelo had different options in Australia to the…

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!

Re: Open source bike comparison and review

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Post by kimmel »

The content is not licensed creative commons. The code to the actual site is not open source, only the code to use the API. I would not call this an open source project or a major win. A major win would be a uniformly licensed content base that is CC-BY and they provide data dumps.

It is a slight improvement over bikepedia but not by much.

Re: Open source bike comparison and review

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Post by bike_index »

kimmel wrote: post #47

The content is not licensed creative commons. The code to the actual site is not open source, only the code to use the API. I would not call this an open source project or a major win. A major win would be a uniformly licensed content base that is CC-BY and they provide data dumps. It is a slight improvement over bikepedia but not by much.

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 data is in the bike_data folder.

You can view the code here, https://github.com/bikeindex/bikebook at the same place the link in the BikeBook footer goes.

It is AGPL, so not creative commons. This is the license the Bike Index is under, so we just went with it. We'll consider a different license for the BikeBook, because maybe that makes more sense. Thanks for bringing it up.

Re: Open source bike comparison and review

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Post by bike_index »

tagawa wrote: post #14
toggle wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think this is for "just the facts." You would use this data on your own review site.

Thanks. Maybe they should change the title/tagline as it's a bit misleading.

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