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Re:Show HN: Compete Hub – discover, share and manage your tr... by netaustin on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @04:26PM (#7746178)
Really cool. I'm training for my first triathlon now (NYC Tri with Team in Training), and I'm hoping to do many more Olympic-distance Tris thereafter.

Honestly, I've been wanting better training apps (and a good online training community) more than anything. Garmin Connect, for example, has great potential but isn't social enough / doesn't help you discover much beyond your own stats. Obviously that's a harder nut to crack for a relatively small market.

Maybe someday I'll be ready to find more races, though. Nice job!

Re:Show HN: Compete Hub – discover, share and manage your tr... by mbesto on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @04:28PM (#7746195)
Have you checked out Strava for the training stuff? They're getting more and more triathletes on there.
Re:Show HN: Compete Hub – discover, share and manage your tr... by phylosopher on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @04:03PM (#7746016)
Well design site. Maybe I'll get off my lazy butt and do a triathlon... or not.

How do people keep sites like this up-to-date when there are so many repositories of information and/or small players that are not standardized? Do they have go event by event or store by store? Is there a better way?

Re:Show HN: Compete Hub – discover, share and manage your tr... by mbesto on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @04:22PM (#7746139)
Let's get you on that bike soon!

re: updating - Good question. Lanyrd did this really well with professional events and Yelp did it with restaurants. It's a unique combination of crowd-sourcing, manual work, and incentivizing the organizers of the events.

Re:Show HN: Compete Hub – discover, share and manage your tr... by Jemaclus on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @04:37PM (#7746259)
My girlfriend is a triathlete. She'll love the crap out of this. I'm just a runner, so it's not really my cup of tea. I'll get her to sign up tonight and try and submit some feedback.
Re:Show HN: Compete Hub – discover, share and manage your tr... by mbesto on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @04:42PM (#7746287)
Don't worry, running events coming VERY soon :) Feel free to sign up if you haven't already and we'll notify you when it gets added.
Re:Show HN: Compete Hub – discover, share and manage your tr... by mbesto on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @04:06PM (#7746029)
Founder here, looking for feedback!
Re:Show HN: Compete Hub – discover, share and manage your tr... by wf on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @04:25PM (#7746168)
Nice looking site! Just some things I noticed:

-when I search, it's not automatically filtered by date

-when I search "woodlands" I get 0 results but when I search "the woodlands" I get 85, none of which are http://www.ironman.com/triathlon/events/americas/ironman/tex...

-I have no idea what SPR, OLY, and CUS are and when I mouse over them it doesn't tell me anything

But, I'll definitely show this to my more active friends; nicely done!

Re:Show HN: Compete Hub – discover, share and manage your tr... by mbesto on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @04:27PM (#7746187)
Sweet, thanks for the feedback. CTO is constantly tweaking the search so we can make it as "free form" as possible. We're trying to get away from "filter drop down" hell
Re:Show HN: Compete Hub – discover, share and manage your tr... by Jemaclus on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @04:37PM (#7746253)
Check out Elasticsearch as a search index. It does a pretty good job of full text searches, and it's free. I use it for a lot of my projects, and I think it's one of the better ones out there. Let me know if I can help! Good luck!
Re:Show HN: Compete Hub – discover, share and manage your tr... by mbesto on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @04:55PM (#7746363)
Yup, we use ES and love it! Thanks for the offering, I'll let philipDS know if he hits any stumbling blocks to get in touch.
Re:Show HN: Compete Hub – discover, share and manage your tr... by ndd on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @09:15PM (#7747473)
Great looking site!

This item: https://www.competehub.com/races/tri-for-the-y-sprint-2014 The data is all wacky: 1) The gmaps swim tab is in Germany, 2) The Logistics > Start location is on Long Island.

(I happen to live right near that race)

Re:Show HN: Compete Hub – discover, share and manage your tr... by mbesto on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @09:46PM (#7747547)
Whoa, ya that's the swim for Ironman St. Pölten in Austria! Ha!

Fixing it right now. Thanks for the feedback!