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?
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.
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
Check out Elasticsearch as a search index. It does a pretty good job of full text searches, and it's free. I use it for a lot of my projects, and I think it's one of the better ones out there. Let me know if I can help! Good luck!
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!
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.
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?
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.
Founder here, looking for feedback!
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!
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
Check out Elasticsearch as a search index. It does a pretty good job of full text searches, and it's free. I use it for a lot of my projects, and I think it's one of the better ones out there. Let me know if I can help! Good luck!
Yup, we use ES and love it! Thanks for the offering, I'll let philipDS know if he hits any stumbling blocks to get in touch.
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)
Whoa, ya that's the swim for Ironman St. Pölten in Austria! Ha!
Fixing it right now. Thanks for the feedback!
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!
Have you checked out Strava for the training stuff? They're getting more and more triathletes on there.
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.
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.