Show HN: Yourshoesmells.com – Find the most smelly boulder gym

by boshenz • 9 months ago

45 44 9 months ago

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?”

boxedsound• 9 months ago

Funny and practical to know if the gym stinks.

Just my two scents: I find the font incredibly hard to read.

sunrunner• 9 months ago

Everyone nose what you did there.

defrost• 9 months ago

Bouldering at West Cape Howe above several hundred tonnes of rotting seaweed can get pretty stinky.

Good views though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLihtxNPB9U

HipstaJules• 9 months ago

The name chef's kiss

Phelinofist• 9 months ago

This might attract a certain type of people

mock-possum• 9 months ago

My first thought too, clear fetish content

GregBrrrrrrrr• 9 months ago

10/10 for the login username placeholder text alone

boshenz5• 9 months ago

Adam Ondra!!!

imurray• 9 months ago

The site didn't load for me in Firefox, but I found these fantastic for preventing climbing shoe stink: https://bootbananas.com/product/original-shoe-deodorisers/ They absorb sweat, not just mask the smell.

coolbeans500• 9 months ago

great idea - stinky font

Thorrez• 9 months ago

ranking Boulder gym stinkiness

The capitalization makes me think it's about gyms in Boulder, CO.

kakacik• 9 months ago

Thought so too but then I scrolled to Europe and where I live literally every single gym is on the map, even one that is either very non-public or only exists on google maps (tried to get there once but there was absolutely nothing). Both eastern and western Europe covered very well, kudos for grepping those places properly.

KomoD2• 9 months ago

or only exists on google maps

Because it is just Google Maps data and includes tons of just random places (like sporting goods stores, parking lots, cycling parks)

Ajedi32• 9 months ago

I wonder where they're getting the data. I assumed OSM but I found at least one place on this map that I couldn't find on OSM or in All the Places (but it is on Google Maps).

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.

davedx• 9 months ago

Amazing, the one I go to that only opened last year in Ede, the Netherlands is there! I was its first vote :)

donq1xote1• 9 months ago

Lamo this product got me laugh for five minutes hahahha

nailer• 9 months ago

It’s very odd. Bouldering gyms consistently smell of feet but yoga studios do not despite both being an open toed activity.

ubermonkey2• 9 months ago

Bouldering is not a barefoot activity. Bouldering (and climbing) depend on special shoes.

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.

turdprincess• 9 months ago

Must be a shoe type thing - I’ve never had any smell with La Sportiva (solution, futura, Muira or katana)

manwe150• 9 months ago

Talc powder, baking soda, or NonScents Shoe Deodorizer https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07NYTTV4C?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_shar... whenever you’re done can help substantially by removing moisture so the funk bacteria die

fishbacon• 9 months ago

The font you chose is borderline illegible. Password being 3-20 characters makes me nervous.

Fun idea though.

amypetrik8• 9 months ago

Password being 3-20 characters makes me nervous.

You're kinder than me, having a login and password to place a vote seems like a dark pattern to me.

atrus• 9 months ago

I see a lot of complaints about the font, and I'm just curious what makes it so hard to read? Is English your second language, I know reading Japanese for me in different or (worse!) handwritten makes it 10x harder for me to read. Are you just not used to a handwritingish font, and only read more typewritery fonts? Older than me (35+)?

It just feels weird that a perfectly legible font has multiple complaints, and I don't understand why or how?

abound• 9 months ago

I think the font is just "different" enough that it sets off something in people.

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.

stronglikedan• 9 months ago

To me, it's not the font face in particular, but that it's sized too small for the complexity of the font face, specifically.

diziet• 9 months ago

The font is very small. And unusual.

lukeinator42• 9 months ago

Is there a way to request the addition of a gym?

boshenz5• 9 months ago

There will be. Wanted to get this out to see the public reaction

0_gravitas• 9 months ago

Looking around my area, unsure what the heuristics are for determining whats a climbing/boulder gym, but there's quite a few false-positives. I got excited because I thought there was some new options in my otherwise duopolized island.

dddddaviddddd• 9 months ago

For urban gyms, at least in Montreal, a slider for bicycle parking is more useful than a checkbox. Some gyms have many more bicycles parked than cars, sometimes in winter too. Many gyms don’t even have car parking because transit/bike/walking is the expected way to get there.

boshenz5• 9 months ago

Interesting! Noted!

Quitschquat• 9 months ago

I would like to filter via Smells Like Ass vs Smells Like Balls. I have a different tolerance for each

DANmode2• 9 months ago

Bacteria vs Cyanobacteria

DANmode2• 9 months ago

vs mold, lol

mikestew• 9 months ago

When I click the "use my location" icon and I'm in Redmond, WA, 2 out of the 3 gyms listed are in Redmond, OREGON. I imagine it might be doing to same for city names that are in multiple states. But when I zoom into Portland, OR (rather than use the "my location" button) I don't see gyms for Portland, ME (maybe there aren't any in ME?).

And, yeah, that font sucks for readability.

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