uucee wrote:
dcrainmaker wrote:
TheStroBro wrote:
That's cool and all. But most of us aren't on strava for their workout analysis. We're there for the social aspect and not their paid content...so how do you monetize the 99% of users?
You add features that are social-focused that people want.
… which would add zero extra value to members who primarily train solo.
It's inconceivable that at this day and age you can configure gear on your Strava account (bikes/shoes) that cannot be automagically detected from the ingested sensor data. If I have two bikes with a speed/cadence sensor on each, it shouldn't be a rocket scientist project to have any ride automagically tagged against the right bike. At any other company, this would be an intern project, but apparently Strava lacks the will / skill to get such a stupid-ass feature done. End rant.
Not everything will be targeted at everyone, and that's cool. Other Strava features like Segments also add very little value to most triathletes too - because it'd be rare that you're chasing segments in a typical training plan.
I agree on your automatic gear tagging. The data is in the files already (heck, we do it on the DCR Analyzer already), it's trivial to do. But again...I don't feel like Strava actually feature plans. Or, at least, they don't feature plan around 'What's something that's awesome sounding for end users?' or even 'What have people been begging for in the Strava community site for years?'.
Coming from a software background, I totally get not all features are sexy or even worth mentioning. And that's fine. But that's also life as a software/platforms company. You don't get credit for boring features, you get credit for pushing the platform forward. It felt like over the past few years, Strava thought they got credit for baseline regular maintenance stuff.
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