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439 points david927 | 2 comments | | HN request time: 0.007s | source

What are you working on? Any new ideas which you're thinking about?
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p1nkpineapple ◴[] No.44430946[source]
I'm making a kind of "Tinder for hiking trails".

I live in Switzerland and am (like many people here) an avid hiker. There are a lot of great hiking websites but they all suffer from the same problem: They are ultimately just a list of hiking routes that you need to plan around. Because I do a hike almost every week, the extra planning has become an overhead that takes time out of my life: how far away is it, what train should I take, whats the weather situation like, do I need to bring snowshoes, etc. The 65,000km of trails in this country also gives me decision paralysis!

So I'm building an app (React native/django) which takes a users current situation and preferences and then algorithmically suggests a few best options for them that they can quickly give a yes/no to. It's integrated with a lot of data like the train timetables, snow data, weather forecast etc.

I was able to reduce an hour of planning down to 5 minutes last week, so it's definitely working for me. What I am currently trying to do is figure out if other people have this problem and there's interest in the app concept.

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1. jl39842 ◴[] No.44431424[source]
This sounds great! My partner and I also spend a lot of time just scrolling around the Swiss hiking maps looking for potential routes. I had an idea for better filters (e.g. roundtrip hikes with >1000m elevation <2h by transit) and got as far as displaying hiking and transit data. Are you looking for testers? :)
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2. p1nkpineapple ◴[] No.44434451[source]
Absolutely! Send me an email. Address in my profile