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Show HN: I'm building a Strava alternative without all the social media crap

cubetrek.com

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I'm working on https://cubetrek.com, a web app to manage, visualize and compare your running, hiking, mountainbiking, skiing... activities.

Some features include: a github-style calendar heatmap, 3D visualization of tracks (especially useful for hill climbs and mountaineous terrain in general), a world map displaying all your activities at once.

Excluded features: although you can share yoir tracks to the world, should you choose so, there are no friends, no likes, no comments, i.e. none of that social networking stuff. And no ads.

Any feedback is appreciated, let me know what you think, what to improve!

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Do you have any plans to let users add photos? I think that would be pretty cool, as (depending on what you're doing and where) some trips may be something you do only once, and it'd be nice to have a collection of all your activities so you can go look back at how it was.

I was thinking about it. Problem is it will likely blow up the server requirements, which in turn will make the costs rise. Since there are no ads and no subscription, I would first need to think about adding some type of paid tier, I'm not sure how I feel about that.

Leave an open field for a link to pics, on your own site, or your Imgur/Google Maps submission.

Hi, I very much like the no social BS and no ads part.

Are (would you be) open to connecting to other tools on top of Garmin and Flow? I use Komoot, for example. Thanks.

I need to look into Komoot's API. I'm currently working on integration of Suunto.

Really cool! For cycling, some statistics like power and heart rate (if recorded) would be a great addition. Then over time an evolution of the power curve. Another useful feature in Strava is the fitness/fatigue/form curve. Did you open source this / are you looking for contributors?

Hi, thanks for testing it!

Good point about heart rates and power, should be trivially feasible to include it in the graph. I need to look more into the math bring the curves you mentioned.

It's not open source yet, but I'm contemplating it.

Btw, at the very bottom (kinda hidden), there's a paragraph describing on how it works in broad strokes (Spring Boot, Postgresql/Postgis, Maplibre GL, D3.js are a couple of keywords)

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