Your club is scattered across a group chat, a spreadsheet and a photo of a receipt. The Outdoor Club gives it the shape it already has: outings, a live member map, a ledger, a roster, and a certificate for every volunteer. No ads, no tracking.
Hi Product Hunt π
I built The Outdoor Club because my riding club's actual operating system was a
group chat with four hundred unread messages in it.
The route was agreed somewhere in there and nobody could find it. Who paid for
the fuel was somebody's memory of a photo of a receipt. Half the group was on
the highway and the only way to know where was to ring them one at a time. And
the blood group of the person who came off at the last bend was on a form in a
drawer at home.
None of that is a chat problem. It's a club problem. Clubs have members and
roles, a calendar, a set of books, and a duty of care towards people who travel
together to places with no signal. A chat window can't hold any of it.
So the app gives a club the shape it already has:
ποΈ Outings - itinerary, enrolment window, appointed captains, status from
planned to under way to done. A nine-day mountain road trip, a sales offsite and
a Sunday potluck all run on the same rails.
πΊοΈ A live map for the day itself - turn sharing on and your club sees who's
ahead, who's sweeping, who stopped. Keeps updating with the phone in a pocket.
One position per member, no route history, and switching it off deletes it.
πΈ Money everybody can see - shared outing expenses that work out who owes
whom, plus a club ledger with receipts attached that every member can read. No
money moves through the app, which is exactly why nobody has to trust it with any.
π₯ A roster that means something - members, treasurers, admins. Blood group
and emergency contact where someone can reach them at the roadside. A garage of
vehicles and their papers that follows you into every club you join.
π± Community impact - 291 volunteering activities across 13 countries, with
kit lists and safety notes already written. Every member who turns up gets a
serialised certificate naming the club, the cause and the partner - the document
a school or an employer's volunteering scheme actually asks for.
On privacy, because the app asks for real things. It's deliberately not a
social network: no public directory, no discovery, no way to reach a club that
didn't invite you. No adverts, no advertising identifier, no analytics, no
crash-reporting SDK. One club cannot read another's members, posts, ledger or
map - and that's a row-level rule in Postgres rather than a check in the app, so
it holds even against a modified client. It's tested as a security property
against a real database before every release.
Free on iOS and Android. No ads, no in-app purchases, no subscriptions.
One heads-up if you install: clubs are invitation-only, so a fresh signup lands
in the "start a club" wizard rather than in somebody else's club. Tap Start a
Club, name it, and you're the admin - inviting two friends is enough to see
the map and the expense split do their thing.
I'd love to hear from anyone who runs a club of any kind - riding, trekking,
alumni, neighbourhood, conservation. What does yours do that this doesn't?