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Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025) by this-pony on Sunday June 29, 2025 @06:19PM (#44417061)
Did you look at the squadrats app? It’s compatible with strava also. It sounds quite similar to what you describe.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025) by tokioyoyo on Sunday June 29, 2025 @06:36PM (#44417219)
Not Squadrats, but I've checked out some others, like CityStrides. There were a few problems though:

- It felt like what I wanted to achieve is pretty simple (GPS coordinates -> display all on the same map), so didn't want to subscribe for a monthly fee. I couldn't actually find an app that would dump all my HealthKit data directly onto the map, which was surprising.

- Last year when I wrote my app, I wanted to see how fast I can learn simple mobile development loop

- Now, I couldn't really find anything that divides the coverage areas into real-world neighbourhoods. So, think of West Village of NYC, or Yorkville in Toronto, or Yoyogi in Shibuya and etc. Back when I used to live in Vancouver, I would look at my own app, and kinda say in my head "aight, I've walked through every street in West End, Vancouver". Figured it would be cool to have a proper way of tracking it. So working on it currently.

- It's kinda fun to work on an app for my own needs

I'll take a look at the squadrats though! Looks pretty cool.

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025) by hucklebuckle on Monday June 30, 2025 @12:04PM (#44424870)
Is your app on TestFlight?
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025) by KomoD on Sunday June 29, 2025 @06:36PM (#44417216)
There's wandrer.earth as well, though it's based on roads, not neighborhoods or squares