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

https://www.competehub.com/

by mbesto • 12 years ago

20 13 12 years 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?

mbesto7• 12 years 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.

mbesto7• 12 years ago

Founder here, looking for feedback!

wf• 12 years 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/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!

mbesto7• 12 years 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

ndd• 12 years ago

Great looking site!

This item: 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)

mbesto7• 12 years ago

Whoa, ya that's the swim for Ironman St. Pölten in Austria! Ha!

Fixing it right now. Thanks for the feedback!

netaustin• 12 years 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!

mbesto7• 12 years ago

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

Jemaclus2• 12 years 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.

mbesto7• 12 years 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.

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

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