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I have no idea what strava is, perhaps a sentence describing what it is without mentioning the competition and forcing people to google strava would be nice at

by _8j50 3y ago

I have no idea what strava is, perhaps a sentence describing what it is without mentioning the competition and forcing people to google strava would be nice at the top of the readme and/or title?

InCityDreams 3y ago
A lot of my fun on hn is learning new stuff. I often have to searchx various things - just because I didn't know about them previously. It's the same on reddit, even on topics i (supposedly) know about and follow. Nb - if you're into sports and fitness tracking, take a look at http://intervals.icu http://intervals.icu - great for fitness, but also a geeks dream. And a Ux with A1++ customer service to die for!
- BytesAndGears 3y ago
  Another giant recommendation from me on intervals.icu ! I have hundreds of workouts to pick from in there across swim/bike/run, and used the site to plan out all of my training for an Ironman 70.3 (and also for some upcoming races next year). It is phenomenal for planning out your training if you want to do any sort of endurance sports racing. The developer is awesome, and provides almost all features for free. He even added a swimming feature that I needed with like a 1-2 day turnaround, which was incredible. The “premium” version is only $3/mo which I gladly pay just to support the service. It’s not open source but honestly that’s fine, the developer has built a very feature-complete platform. But it would be really cool to have the source…
- _8j50 3y ago
  My whole point was to help readers learn new stuff. Until just now I didn't google it because I thought it was random noise that isn't interesting to me, my assumption was that it was some random new front end js stuff. I won't google the competition of every post on hn to find out what it is about. Why are you/others supporting bad marketing/presentation? Instead of "like strava" 20 times all over, at least once say "a running, cycling and hiking app like strava". To me, this project just tells me to just go ahead and use strava, they are merely a fan clone.

by _8j50 3y ago

I have no idea what strava is, perhaps a sentence describing what it is without mentioning the competition and forcing people to google strava would be nice at the top of the readme and/or title?

InCityDreams 3y ago

A lot of my fun on hn is learning new stuff. I often have to searchx various things - just because I didn't know about them previously. It's the same on reddit, even on topics i (supposedly) know about and follow. Nb - if you're into sports and fitness tracking, take a look at http://intervals.icu http://intervals.icu - great for fitness, but also a geeks dream. And a Ux with A1++ customer service to die for!

BytesAndGears 3y ago
Another giant recommendation from me on intervals.icu ! I have hundreds of workouts to pick from in there across swim/bike/run, and used the site to plan out all of my training for an Ironman 70.3 (and also for some upcoming races next year). It is phenomenal for planning out your training if you want to do any sort of endurance sports racing. The developer is awesome, and provides almost all features for free. He even added a swimming feature that I needed with like a 1-2 day turnaround, which was incredible. The “premium” version is only $3/mo which I gladly pay just to support the service. It’s not open source but honestly that’s fine, the developer has built a very feature-complete platform. But it would be really cool to have the source…
_8j50 3y ago
My whole point was to help readers learn new stuff. Until just now I didn't google it because I thought it was random noise that isn't interesting to me, my assumption was that it was some random new front end js stuff. I won't google the competition of every post on hn to find out what it is about. Why are you/others supporting bad marketing/presentation? Instead of "like strava" 20 times all over, at least once say "a running, cycling and hiking app like strava". To me, this project just tells me to just go ahead and use strava, they are merely a fan clone.