Show HN: An open source clone of strava. Today is the first public release

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Been working on this for about 4 months now and its at a stage where it can be used. It’s still a little buggy and needs UX work but most of the basic features are in and working currently. Would be super helpful if people could try it out and report any issues or feature requests in the issue tracker https://gitlab.com/pikatrack/pikatrack/issues

There will be federation with ActivityPub in the future but I haven’t added that yet. You can subscribe to this issue if you want updates on that feature https://gitlab.com/pikatrack/pikatrack/issues/32

Congrats on getting this out. What is your goal with this? With so many activity trackers around, what do you see as the benefit of having an open-source version? I'm assuming the data isn't open, just the interface?

I'm adjacent to the space at https://ayvri.com we're not an activity tracker, though some see as as such. So I'm curious about the motivation to do something like this, particularly with so many competitors.

I'm a big privacy and open source advocate. I spent a while searching for an open source solution that lets me be in control of where the data is hosted and who can access that but I found nothing close to what strava and others offer.

Other proprietary services collect all your data use it however they want https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-fitbits-150-billion...

This project aims to give you the same features and convenience as the proprietary services but gives you back the control of your own data by letting you self host as well as read and improve the code.

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