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439 points david927 | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0s | 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. pbarondadditude ◴[] No.44431555[source]
Pretty sure people would want to play with it here in Geneva but it would need to expand to covering the French, Italian and Austrian Alps too over time. Keep us posted.