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Shameless plug: I'm working on a Strava like web app and I'm looking for Beta testers: https://cubetrek.com/static/join.html

It's a hobby project of mine, because I wanted to build an app to track my hiking and skiing activities in a way I like it, including 3D visualization (I live in Switzerland, so it's usually always either up or down and that's hard to visualize on a 2D map) and easy comparison of past efforts on the same track.

You're more than welcome to try it out!

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Posting the money shot of your app directly: https://cubetrek.com/view/6338

Wow this is freaking cool. Please do bikes!

Thanks man!

I mean you can do bikes, it just takes a GPS track file (GPX or FIT) and plots the route. You can also try it out without creating an account (drag and drop your file on the front page: https://cubetrek.com)

"Money shot" is right; let me just close that office door...

Crude humor aside, that's enough to get me to go poke around later. Well done. I don't live in the Alps, but the hills around the Seattle Eastside area are enough to make good use of such a tool.

Yes, give it a try! The steeper the terrain, the nicer the model looks (in my opinion).

Here's another one: https://cubetrek.com/view/5813

Shameless plug also: I am the developers and operators of the free and vendor independent training log » https://www.velohero.com

Like you, I run this training platform as side project. I have been doing this since 2008. No price increase since then (always 19EUR). I come from your neighboring country - Germany. If you see the change that we join forces, feel free to contact me via LinkedIn or email » https://www.nkn-it.de

Sure, interested to talk. Conceptually, I'm shying away from both route planning and training management, there are dozens of better apps out there.

I see CubeTrek more of a diary for your adventures and a progress tracker for outdoor sports.

That is amazing! A totally deserved plug - love it. I don't live in a very hilly area, but I was frustrated my strava jig tracks looked so 'slow' as I was going up and down my local coast hills on my run. Hope it can work in my area.

It should, the elevation data comes from the NASA SRTM dataset, so unless you live somewhere above the arctic circle, it should work. Try it out, you can drag and drop a GPX/FIT file on the homepage (http://cubetrek.com) without setting up an account.

I've got a plug too - http://hilly.run

Summit tracker for Strava. Updates your activity with the summited peak name. Go to the web app to see your full list of summits and a map.

Working on some big upgrades, like summit lists and way more stats.

http://hilly.run

Nice, where do you get the data from? I'm using OpenStreetMap (OSM features annotated as 'Peak'), and check with PostGIS for peaks that are close to the GPS track.

Generating a list of all summits is a nice idea!

Yes, I use the same (OSM features annotated as 'Peak'). I've found a few edge cases, like volcanoes, which I also want to count as peaks.

Thanks for sharing your project, I'll have to check it out! It was definitely a huge product gap for Strava, but it's gotten a little better since they've added the 3d maps.

Holy shit, this is cool!

I canceled my Strava membership when I learned of the price hike news. I never got an email about it and couldn’t find any information on Strava about the price increase.

So I am no longer a paying member.

Your app look super cool, and would be great in Taiwan and Japan where it’s quite mountainous.

I’m interested in being a beta tester if you’re looking.

Yes! Just sign up on https://cubetrek.com/static/join.html and let me know what you think...

I couldn't find much information, but does that app have integrations with Garmin for Garmin users?

I just tried a quick experiment, and it will import GPX files that are exported from Garmin. Whether it will directly pull data from Garmin Connect is a question for the dev, but a quick test drive did not reveal that functionality.

See above. GPX and FIT files work ( FIT preferred)

Yes! But only Garmin so far (working on Polar now). You need to set up an account and than link your Garmin account in the profile.

Here's the catch: Garmin only allows syncing of future activities. I can't access your past activities from your Garmin account. There's a way around it though: https://cubetrek.com/static/bulkdownload.html

Privacy controls and public posting delays (as in: analysis is available immediately, but public route posting gets delayed to a set time interval) would be excellent, particularly for those people who are more viral than they’d like.

Late reply, but here goes: currently there are two states only, private (only the user can see it) and public (everyone can see it). There are no social features (yet?), so no friends or similar

the 3d vis is great. it's hard to put a sense of scale on mountain biking rides. this helps a lot. very well done, looking forward to more

This is really cool!

Any of the code open source?

Nope, perhaps one day...

For technical details, there's a techstack rundown at the very bottom of the homepage (https://cubetrek.com)

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