Peter Green Posted February 21, 2013 Report Share Posted February 21, 2013 Hey, We are playing around with an idea to make a mobile app. Here's the pain I'm trying to solve: Whenever I want to (usually spontaneously) go riding, I want to know who else rides right now, so we can meet and ride together. To do this I have to call/txt every local rider. What I want to do is to have an app, that has 1 button: "I'M RIDING" that I push when I'm going riding. My friends will see that I'm riding and can call me and meet me. Works for cities, obviously. I have one main question to you: Would you use it? (it will be free and provided all your friends have it and imagine you have a smartfone if you don't) Other questions could be: - what other features would be important to have - what other features would be nice to have For example: - Map / gps to see where exactly other riders ride right now - Settings to filter / select different cities - See stats how long you ride, where, etc. - Ability to quickly call / text the active (riding) rider If there's good response, there's higher chance that this will happen. Also might be useful for other kinds of riders, such as bmx, street etc. Thanks! :yum: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich J Posted February 21, 2013 Report Share Posted February 21, 2013 Would be good to have a text input perhaps, something simple to put in exact location. Does sound good though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blake Posted February 21, 2013 Report Share Posted February 21, 2013 Sounds the shit yo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannytrialskid Posted February 21, 2013 Report Share Posted February 21, 2013 (edited) I'd use it. Some sort of notification feature would be cool. E.g you could ask the user a radius of miles that they would want to meet and ride. Say I chose '20 miles' and then someone within 20 miles of my current location said they wanted to ride, I would get a notification saying 'John Doe is riding (destination), want to ride?'. You could add some sort of text feature too, especially if it is riding with people you don't know and you don't have their number. Could have a 'Group Ride' feature too. Same aspect as above, except if you got the notification and you said 'I will ride' then it would add you to that ride. Then when other people get the notification they will see who is meeting at the same place at that time. Could also give the ability to add contact details to the app. This way if that person can't get internet access or has no internet signal at their location other people can text/call that person if they don't already have their contact details, however I would recommend making this an optional choice. If you were to do this for different sports as well you might want to add a Sport filter. That way they can choose what type of riders they want to meet with. Would be good to see how this turns out! Edited February 21, 2013 by dannytrialskid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny00135 Posted February 21, 2013 Report Share Posted February 21, 2013 Sounds like an awesome idea.. Also recommended riding spots within a location we can all share would be good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Green Posted February 21, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 21, 2013 Yeah I also thought about "spots" layer on the map, which is a sweet feature but not enough to make a separate app for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twitch-119 Posted February 21, 2013 Report Share Posted February 21, 2013 Everything "dannytrialskid" said, without fail. I would definatly use this, need to get on some group rides! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
valk Posted February 22, 2013 Report Share Posted February 22, 2013 That'd be brilliant! Move on please I'll throw money at the screen whenever you finish it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben_travis Posted February 22, 2013 Report Share Posted February 22, 2013 (edited) While i don't know how much I would use it, i think it'd be a good idea overall. Might want to go speak to the guy over at www.ridden.it to see if you could integrate his map in some how to the app...could be an idea. p.s. make sure its iphone and android compatible as well Edited February 22, 2013 by ben_travis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dezmtber Posted February 22, 2013 Report Share Posted February 22, 2013 i would use it deffinitly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isitafox Posted February 22, 2013 Report Share Posted February 22, 2013 Doesn't even have to be about sport, could call the app "Out for an ale?" then you can see which of your mates is on the lash! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan rider g Posted February 22, 2013 Report Share Posted February 22, 2013 this sound awsome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muel Posted February 22, 2013 Report Share Posted February 22, 2013 Doesn't even have to be about sport, could call the app "Out for an ale?" then you can see which of your mates is on the lash!Pretty sure that has been tried, but everyone just uses facebook for these kinda things.Unfortunately it's no good having a better way unless everyone adopts it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Revolver Posted February 22, 2013 Report Share Posted February 22, 2013 Doesn't even have to be about sport, could call the app "Out for an ale?" then you can see which of your mates is on the lash! That's true. Maybe you'd call it Get Together. It'd have a flag for if you're out, and a map to show where your friends on it are, realtime. A bit like apple's find friends. You could have an option to team up with people to show when you're in a group. This would mean you can see who else is going, and be able to get in touch with them too. To be honest, I just looked at find friends just now and it's more or less all you need. The only thing would be to make a cross-platform version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadManMike Posted February 22, 2013 Report Share Posted February 22, 2013 Yeah I don't think it needs to be bike specific. A more simplified but detailed Facebook if that makes sense - no photos or complex posts, just a list of mates with a short status, such as: Mike - Home or Mike - Riding, Hastings (Perhaps have a small text box to allow road name) You could use it for any sport or social event. Great idea anyway, go for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manuel Posted February 22, 2013 Report Share Posted February 22, 2013 Isn't this Facebook check in ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave33 Posted February 22, 2013 Report Share Posted February 22, 2013 Sounds good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Green Posted February 23, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2013 To be honest, I just looked at find friends just now and it's more or less all you need. The only thing would be to make a cross-platform version. Find friends only gives you friends' locations, but you have no idea if the're riding or not. Plus it's about everybody, not filtered to, say, trials riders. Doesn't solve the problem.. Thanks all for the feedback. I think it's worth doing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadManMike Posted February 23, 2013 Report Share Posted February 23, 2013 Isn't this Facebook check in ? Kind of, but not everyone on your friends list sees the check in on FB and also you may have hundreds of friends on there that don't want to know where you are. I see this app as being similar to that but more specific for a smaller group of close mates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich J Posted February 23, 2013 Report Share Posted February 23, 2013 I see it as this, you sign up with name, location and interests, you choose these interests off a predetermined list created by the app. Then when you are doing a sport the app will enable you to make this obvious e.g Rich, Bristol, Trials then perhaps with the use of location services like on phone maps and stuff will give an exact location or with a text function could input Lloyds. With the interests it means say I was also a climber I could view both sports in my area and choose based on what I can see others doing, it also enables a filter too, I could look at just trials or perhaps I want to go watch BMX could see whats going on within 2 miles of my location. Perhaps a search function with interest, location and distance from location. The ability to "follow" people would be good too and perhaps optional in app notifications of when people are in your area or when your followed people are riding. I think it's a great idea but relies on two things, people using it and people being friendly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rosslittledubber Posted February 25, 2013 Report Share Posted February 25, 2013 Being a windows phone user alot of regular apps are not available in tbe marketplace... So if its windows friendly i will indefinitely use it typo.. *the Sorry lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arw_86 Posted February 25, 2013 Report Share Posted February 25, 2013 (edited) I may be missing the point but I just have whatsapp and have numerous group convos. I have one for football, bouldering, mountain biking, a festival one for this summer, hiking one for next month and just a general lash one with all the boys. And depending on what you are trying to arrange,talking about or who you want to talk to is the group convo you whack it in. Can start a new group in about 10 seconds if you want to leave one person out as its their birthday, and you want to plan a surprise for example. My best mate lives in London, he will put in the large group one 'Anyone fancy London this weekend?' we all reply, and when we know who is keen. We usually start a new convo so the others dont get naused with all the messages. edit: Just read the other post. I can see it being good for finding new friends to ride with maybe. Edited February 25, 2013 by arw_86 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Green Posted February 26, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2013 edit: Just read the other post. I can see it being good for finding new friends to ride with maybe. Right. Plus, let's imagine you want to use text messages (sms, facebook, whatsapp) for this. You would send "I'm riding" to everyone. That's like "cool story bro, but who cares"? Here, you post "I'm riding" and whoever is interested will see it, others won't be bothered. It's a post mechanism, as opposed to ping mechanism Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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