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RideFollow
Live bike rides your friends can watch and cheer
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Live bike rides your friends can watch and cheer
10 followers
RideFollow turns a cyclist's live GPS into a spectator-friendly ride page. Start a ride, share one private link, and friends or family can follow speed, distance, route progress, elevation and ETA from any browser—no account or app required. They can send cheers that buzz the rider's phone. Free during the beta on iOS and Android.
How does the battery hold up if the rider leaves the live tracking running for a full multi-hour ride, and does the spectator page refresh automatically or do they need to keep reopening it?
@tgulmara42328 Hi, thanks for the question. The spectator it's connected using MQTT techonology (like the smarthouse things or iot devices) so the telemetries are shown realtime without refresh needed. For battery consumption it's a very interesting topi i will start getting feedback with this beta and start monitoring to implement features to reduce consumption, at the moment the main consumptions comes for cellular and gps, but i'm looking forward to improve .
A small thing that would make this feel even more social: let spectators drop a pin on the route map with a short note, so the rider sees "your friend left a cheer at the top of the climb." It would give the cheers some context and make long rides feel like less of a solo effort.
@n_lok72335 That's very cool i will note it and propose it to the beta tester in the following weeks! Thank you!
Shared a link with my partner on a long ride and she could actually buzz my phone mid-route with a cheer. That little buzz at mile 40 made the whole hill feel shorter.
@gler63kh interesting, did you already tried the RideFollow app?
How long does the phone buzz stay visible to the rider mid-ride, and does it auto-pause tracking when the battery drops below a certain level?
Shared a link with my partner while out on a long ride and watching the cheers pop up on my wrist was a fun little motivator, and the elevation graph actually matched what I was suffering through.
My partner used it on a long ride and the elevation graph was actually accurate on my laptop. The cheer buzz on her phone was a fun touch, way better than a static tracker link.