RunMap - Turn your Strava runs into a world map adventure
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Most running apps focus on metrics. RunMap adds the missing layer: exploration.
Connect your Strava in one click and watch your runs appear on an interactive world map. Unlock 50+ badges across 5 categories and 4 rarity tiers as you discover new countries, continents, cities and terrains.
A complement to Strava: Your splits stay there, your adventures get a home.
No subscription, no ads.
Built solo from the road during a 1-year trip across Latin America.
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Hey Product Hunt 👋
Aymeric, French PM, currently 2 months into a 1-year trip across Latin America with my partner.
Quick story on RunMap. I've been running for years and every time I travel somewhere new, my first reflex is to go for a run. It's just how I get to know a place. The thing is, after a while I realized all those runs across different countries existed nowhere. Just in my head. Strava had my pace, not the fact that I'd run in 14 countries.
So between two volcano hikes in Guatemala, I started building RunMap.
You connect Strava, your runs show up on a world map, and you unlock badges as you cover new countries, continents, cities and terrains. 50+ badges right now, 4 rarity tiers, the whole gamification thing.
Honestly a bit of an experiment in how far a PM can ship solo these days.
Stuff I'd really like your help on:
If you run, please try it and tell me where the onboarding sucks. I've stared at it too long.
What kind of badge would actually make you want to come back? I have ideas but I'm probably biased.
And if something breaks, I want to know. :)
Otherwise, here’s my public runmap page
https://runmap.world/u/aymeric-saves?t=CKNYegBQuIigTkABASdwp5a2FVw
It shows all the places I’ve run, countries, little milestones over time
Curious to see yours 👀
Funny thing is that Strava Premium already kind-of has this feature
https://www.strava.com/maps/global-heatmap/personal-heatmap
so what's different about RunMap?
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Hey @houbsta, great question and totally fair to ask 🙏
You're right that Strava has the personal heatmap. But it's really a heatmap: it shows you where you've run as a visual density layer. RunMap is a different angle.
The core idea is gamification and progression. Instead of a heatmap, you get:
A world map that tracks countries, continents, cities and terrains as discrete things you've "unlocked"
50+ badges across 5 categories and 4 rarity tiers, so each new place feels like an achievement, not just a pixel on a map
A profile page you can share, kind of like a passport of your runs
So Strava's heatmap answers "where have I run?". RunMap answers "how much of the world have I explored, and what's next?". One is a visualization, the other is a progression system.
Hope that clarifies! Curious what you think after trying it 🚀
@ricoloco I feel a bit inadequate now, I haven't run in many countries or places but I'm not doing too badly in reality. Some of the stats are quite cool and I like the sharing feature, and it has brought back some memories of runs from a long time ago.
It doesn't appear to have picked up any of my other sports (cycling in particular) which would give me a few more traces here and there, and a couple more towns no doubt ;).
It is going to encourage me to run elsewhere a bit more though! I'll keep an eye on it.