Show HN: Yourshoesmells.com – Find the most smelly boulder gym
yourshoesmells.com
A crowdsourced map for ranking Boulder gym stinkiness and difficulty. Get a detailed view of the gym. “Is there toprope in the gym?” “Any training boards?”
yourshoesmells.com
Just my two scents: I find the font incredibly hard to read.
The capitalization makes me think it's about gyms in Boulder, CO.
Because it is just Google Maps data and includes tons of just random places (like sporting goods stores, parking lots, cycling parks)
Of course but doesn't Google Maps have categories for this stuff? Feels like it should be quite easy to filter out
If anything it seems to err on the side of false positives. A lot of these places seem to be traditional gyms or trampoline parks that I don't think have any bouldering walls.
You'd be very wrong! There is at least 40 bouldering gyms in Paris (and suburbs) alone.
It just feels weird that a perfectly legible font has multiple complaints, and I don't understand why or how?
Ironically, it's also the default font used by Excalidraw (Virgil IIRC), and people seem to generally like the style + legibility of Excalidraw-drawn diagrams.
Fun idea though.
You're kinder than me, having a login and password to place a vote seems like a dark pattern to me.
Good views though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLihtxNPB9U
And, yeah, that font sucks for readability.
The smell in a climbing or bouldering gym is because many climbers (and most climbers above a beginner/intermediate level) are probably taking OFF their shoes when not actively climbing. You do this outside, too -- the shoes are TIGHT and pretty uncomfortable to stand around in, so you only wear them when you're on the rock.
Climbing and bouldering are pretty intense, though, so you will get sweaty. And you'll sweat in your shoes. And the shoes will get stinky. Shoe stink is often somewhat contained if your foot is still IN the shoe, but if you take them off everyone gets to enjoy the aroma.
Unlined leather shoes handle the funk the best. OTOH, shoes with uppers made of textiles, especially when lined, end up being de facto bioweapons. I am not cursed with especially stinky sweat or feet, but I had a pair of fabric-lined climbing shoes that had to ride in the trunk going to and from the gym or the crag because having them inside the passenger compartment of the car was absolutely untenable.
Yoga, OTOH, is done barefoot. People often show up very minimal shoes. There's a sweat smell in many yoga spaces, especially hot yoga spaces, but it's not the funk associated with shoes.
I just looked at the LS site, and it's been so long I recognize nothing aside from the current iteration of the Mythos. The biohazard shoes I had were from someone else, maybe 5.10? Maybe they were UFOs?
Nothing in 5.10's lineup looks familiar to me, but apparently they were acquired by Adidas in 2011, which probably explains it.
My stanky shoes were all black with some grey accents, and closed with velcro, which made them ideal for the gym. I wore them outside exactly ONCE, to a place near Austin. They were fine until I got above the trees, and the sun started BAKING MY FEET. They got super super hot in the sun, which was very uncomfortable and relegated them to gym-only climbing thereafter.