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by zakn 7y ago
Shopping for groceries. I made a website which lets my wife and I pick recipes and any "one off" items we need for the week. The code figures out which ingredients it should buy (preferring organic / sale items) and then call
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by zakn 10y ago
My brother and I are about to release yet another spiritual successor to Lemmings [0]. It has similar gameplay, but more interesting items (flip gravity, portal guns, etc.) and trickier puzzles. As much as I loved Lemmings, it gets a bit te
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Show HN: 2D Portals(blog.applepinegames.com)
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by zakn 13y ago
(Sorry, rereading what I wrote makes it sound pretty slanderous). Not sure if you'll be doubling back on this, but I thought I'd respond anyway. I was talking about the mobile web experience, specifically on Android. I was playing
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by zakn 13y ago
That's awesome that you got inspired by my picture. That hike is inspiring, probably my favorite of all time. Thanks for the feedback too. I want to support finding nearby hikes in two ways: 1. If you go to the maps page, it should zoo
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by zakn 13y ago
A lot of the pictures up there are ones I've taken. There are others that I've pulled from flickr (after first getting permission from the photographer), for example, the landscape on http://hike.io/hikes/moun
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by zakn 13y ago
My idea for the future Discover page was that you'd be able to filter the results by location, distance, elevation etc. I'm already using Google's jsapi to zoom the map into your location, but I've seen mixed results wit
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by zakn 13y ago
Here's my concern with ads. Even if I managed a 2% CTR with a subtle ad, I'd still have 98% of my users carefully avoiding a part of the page that could be devoted to something else. Someone mentioned affiliate links in a bibliogr
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by zakn 13y ago
I'm going to be looking into OSM because of comments here. I've also looked at MapBox but last time I tried the mobile web experience was basically unusable (although Google Maps isn't great either). Do you have other suggest
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by zakn 13y ago
Ah got it. At the moment, it would tell you that there are no hikes named "Seattle", since search only works on the name of the hike. When I add support for searching by location (because this seems to be a popular request), then
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by zakn 13y ago
I can see how that would be terribly confusing. Currently, search only works for the name of the hike. I've added an issue - https://github.com/zaknelson/hike.io/issues/24
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by zakn 13y ago
If it's any consolation, I'm using the metric system on the backend and plan to add the ability to change your default units. I don't want hike.io to be US-centric. Multi-trail circuits are not really supported at the moment,
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by zakn 13y ago
I was hoping that distance + elevation could give a sense of the difficulty without having to create a "difficulty scale". The problem I always have with such scales is that each site is different and their definition of a hard hi
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by zakn 13y ago
I'm not sure I understand the question: "Do place names show hikes in a specific radius?" Are you talking about the orange dots on the map? They correspond to a single hike. That is annoying that the map doesn't remember
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by zakn 13y ago
Awesome feedback. Especially the part about making the "adding an entry" part easier, it didn't dawn on me that some of that information is redundant. The reason I've been writing driving directions in a wall of text is
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by zakn 13y ago
I appreciate it! For your app idea, if there's anything that fits into hike.io's domain and you want to discuss it, feel free to shoot me an email.
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by zakn 13y ago
That one was all me. I did the hike, took the pictures, and typed it up. And actually most of the hikes I wrote, although I'm starting to get edits from others. One great example is Mount Meru - http://hike.io/hikes&#x2
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by zakn 13y ago
That's a good question. At this point, I'd say just add it, since I'd rather have more data. If it becomes a popular resource, I suppose the site will need a clearer definition of what constitutes a hike.
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by zakn 13y ago
This one was just added by someone on HN. It's a bit like Wikipedia's stub articles. It's not that useful at the moment, but there's something here that should be expanded on in the future. Maybe I'll update it myse
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by zakn 13y ago
Here was my reasoning. There are 3 main use cases: 1. I know exactly which hike I'm looking for. I type it in, and there it is (I know that currently that is almost never true, but let's assume there is a good number of hikes on t
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by zakn 13y ago
Maybe it's a loop hike? I'm not sure, I will have to ask my girlfriend, she added that one :)
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by zakn 13y ago
Thanks! All changes go through a review process before they are pushed live. I get an email for each change and then can either accept or reject it. I'm using Mailgun to do the mail stuff: https://github.com/zaknelson&#
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by zakn 13y ago
I appreciate the feedback, especially as a fellow hiker. A number of people now have mentioned that the first page is not working, so that's something I'm going to reevaluate. I need more info there beyond a daunting search box. A
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by zakn 13y ago
Trip reports are something I've been thinking about adding for a while. The problem I face at the moment is that they're only useful is you have a very active community. I'm still trying to figure out where hike.io fits into
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by zakn 13y ago
That's some feedback I've heard a couple times now. I was going for simple, but just having the search box only addresses the case where the user already knows what hike they want to find (and actually is pretty useless at the mom
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by zakn 13y ago
If I would have known I'd hit the front page of HN, I would have added more content :) But I agree, there is plenty of good information already out there. For photos, I can probably find Creative Commons versions on flickr. I've a
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by zakn 13y ago
That's a problem I'd love to have. I think the best way to keep a site like this going is through donations, but honestly have no idea whether that is feasible or not.
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by zakn 13y ago
Funny thing. I actually have a scraper for wta - https://github.com/zaknelson/hike.io/blob/master/scripts/scr... I haven't seeded production with it yet because I was a bit unsure on whether th
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by zakn 13y ago
Great feedback. -GPX support is top of my list of TODOs. -I like the USGS topo / OSM idea. I'll have to do some investigation to see how it compares with Google Maps. - I agree that a bibliography is a must. This is also something
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by zakn 13y ago
Wow. You made my day, thanks so much.

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