Requirements: Testers will need to be runners (at least some times) and have a Strava account.
Project Description: Challenge friends/family/colleagues for who will run X kilometers first. Integrates with Strava to track the progress and keep the leaderboard for the challenge up-to-date.
So it's more like a one-time thing, when somebody wins the challenge, the challenge is done. Also if people likes it I plan to make it multi platform, such that you can challenge others even if you don't have your running data on the same platform (strava,garmin etc.)
Yeah that would be interesting feature. An aggregator site, where you can check all your friends runnings. At presents I'm using Strava but some of my friends on Addidas Running and I can't check their progression.
I launched https://thecitymapquiz.com some time ago and I really don't have any succeed critia for it. It was fun to built, playing around with rendering open street map data, and building the web part with phoenix liveview. I really don't have any plans to it going forward, and with a couple of small kids and a full-time job, I'll probably not have any time to spent on it if I actually had a plan. So in someway you could say it's already a success whether or not anyone will use it.
I think I saw this in a different HN comment of yours and played it. Love the concept. My only suggestion is that you expand the multiple choice option pool. I could rule out a lot of options later on in the quiz simply by remembering what options had already been used.
1) participants guess in turns, every correct choice gets a point
2) participants guess competitively and first right choice gets a point. Wrong choices are shown to others, result in a point deduction, and the game continues until the right choice is made
Another approach is to unsubscribe from everything (friends, groups etc.). You feed is empty, but you can still visit profiles/groups etc. but nothing will be pushed to you.
I did the same thing when I read about a plugin that was banned by facebook for allowing you to unsubscribe form everything and decided I was going to do it manually. Funny that facebook temporarily banned me from unfollowing people even though I was doing it manually, not using an app/plugin.
They use a spacer gif :P. I would like something that can infer a structure from rendered output and not HTML structure, just because if something can do this, it can do anything.
Yes, sometimes even an incremental improvement can create great businesses. e.g. Freshworks, earlier known as Freshdesk, started as an economical version of Zendesk.
I deployed a little side-project (https://thecitymapquiz.com) to fly.io yesterday. The deployment went really smooth, but friends testing it out complained their connection (websockets in Phoenix LiveView) dropped. It might be because its running on the cheapest VMs, I don't know yet.
That said, it was really satisfying seeing the application running in Seattle, Hong Kong, and Amsterdam within minutes after launch.
This is probably a websockets bug that crops up during deploys – the connection breaks and reconnects keep getting sent to the now-gone VM for >60s. We're furiously rebuilding our service discovery plumbing because it's slow to propagate. I'm hoping we have the websockets issue fixed this week.
Sounds good. But I probably should implement something to store the state between websocket connections anyways. Loosing all progress when a connection drops is probably not optimal :-)
A bit off topic, but your game's brilliant fun. Just did the worldwide one, got a semi-respectable 23/34. Funny how easy it is to identify North American cities vs European ones. Will definitely share with some friends, great work!
Thank you. I think 23 is pretty good - I have looked a lot on these maps during development and I only managed 24 after I deployed the site yesterday. I'm not really satisfied with the site yet, but I through it was time to find out if any other than me found it interesting - now there is at least one other than me :)
Great idea, and I really like the design of the site. One thing that could be improved is the navigation between policies. The 'down arrow' confused me since I expected the policy would open directly below the headline, and the page navigate to "Available policies" instead of the start of the actual policy.
I just deployed a side-project to fly.io. I cannot really say anything about the multi-region capabilities since it is single-region so far, but I must say the domain setup and certificates is really smooths
