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Show HN: Compete Hub – discover, share and manage your triathlon race schedule

20 points by mbesto 13y ago

phylosopher 13y ago
Well 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?
- mbesto 13y ago
  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.
mbesto 13y ago
Founder here, looking for feedback!
- wf 13y ago
  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/texas.aspx#axzz31iuXmGSF 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!
  - mbesto 13y ago
    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
    - Jemaclus 13y ago
      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!
      - mbesto 13y ago
        Yup, we use ES and love it! Thanks for the offering, I'll let philipDS know if he hits any stumbling blocks to get in touch.
- ndd 13y ago
  Great looking site! This item: https://www.competehub.com/races/tri-for-the-y-sprint-2014 https://www.competehub.com/races/tri-for-the-y-sprint-2014 The data is all wacky: 1) The gmaps swim tab is in Germany, 2) The Logistics > Start location is on Long Island. (I happen to live right near that race)
  - mbesto 13y ago
    Whoa, ya that's the swim for Ironman St. Pölten in Austria! Ha! Fixing it right now. Thanks for the feedback!
netaustin 13y ago
Really 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!
- mbesto 13y ago
  Have you checked out Strava for the training stuff? They're getting more and more triathletes on there.
Jemaclus 13y ago
My 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.
- mbesto 13y ago
  Don't worry, running events coming VERY soon :) Feel free to sign up if you haven't already and we'll notify you when it gets added.

20 points by mbesto 13y ago

Well 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?

mbesto 13y ago
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.

mbesto 13y ago

Founder here, looking for feedback!

wf 13y ago
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/texas.aspx#axzz31iuXmGSF 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!
- mbesto 13y ago
  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
  - Jemaclus 13y ago
    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!
    - mbesto 13y ago
      Yup, we use ES and love it! Thanks for the offering, I'll let philipDS know if he hits any stumbling blocks to get in touch.
ndd 13y ago
Great looking site! This item: https://www.competehub.com/races/tri-for-the-y-sprint-2014 https://www.competehub.com/races/tri-for-the-y-sprint-2014 The data is all wacky: 1) The gmaps swim tab is in Germany, 2) The Logistics > Start location is on Long Island. (I happen to live right near that race)
- mbesto 13y ago
  Whoa, ya that's the swim for Ironman St. Pölten in Austria! Ha! Fixing it right now. Thanks for the feedback!

netaustin 13y ago

Really 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!

mbesto 13y ago
Have you checked out Strava for the training stuff? They're getting more and more triathletes on there.

Jemaclus 13y ago

My 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.

mbesto 13y ago
Don't worry, running events coming VERY soon :) Feel free to sign up if you haven't already and we'll notify you when it gets added.