Zwift competitor just finished a closed 6 month beta - https://indievelo.com. Wind, ranked matchmaking, performance verification, realistic draft and physics, based on a modern game engine - ie will run pretty much anywhere. Tried it yesterday - and kinda liked it. It’s free for now.
Zwift competitor just finished a closed 6 month beta - https://indievelo.com. Wind, ranked matchmaking, performance verification, realistic draft and physics, based on a modern game engine - ie will run pretty much anywhere. Tried it yesterday - and kinda liked it. It’s free for now.
sounds like a lot of technical features! I’m a faithful Rouvy rider in winters and like the real road view compared to the gaming graphics of zwift. I’m not looking for rider interaction, just riding/racing. The number of available races on Rouvy have been going down significantly to a frustrating level. This might be worth a look, esp as a free trial.
Zwift competitor just finished a closed 6 month beta - https://indievelo.com. Wind, ranked matchmaking, performance verification, realistic draft and physics, based on a modern game engine - ie will run pretty much anywhere. Tried it yesterday - and kinda liked it. It’s free for now.
6 months later, I’m keen to hear further thoughts from users… following their updates, they appear to be growing exponentially…
Exponential growth at start up is relatively easy and quite common. On the other hand, sustained long-term growth year after year is the real test of a company’s viability.
And the problem for any competitors to Zwift, is making people shift platform. Most people probably (?) pick a platform based on being able to ride with other people (Zwift pace groups) so until other platforms can attract enough people they won’t be able to attract enough people and so the cycle continues. Whilst Zwift provide a good stable platform I suspect it may be hard to tempt people away, though it will be interesting to see.
Can only give my n+1 feedback - I downloaded it today.
On first load, it continually froze with update errors. After about two hours of killing it in the Task Manager and then restarting, it downloaded the updates.
Unfortunately, when I start it it just crashes - or rather just stops and closes without showing anything.
I have tried this on a Desktop and two laptops, all same thing.
I know it’s beta, but it’s a shame it’s gone public in this state.
Humans are predisposed to sticking with whatever that they have used/are using. Hence, changing from one Platform to another is going to take a lot of push.
Some do it because of cost, some do it because of peer pressure (eg: I stuck w/ Zwift rather than RGT due to number of other riders and races, but I’ve now abandoned it all, too much Zwift races got me cooked)
So Yeah…
They could be the reason why Zwift is now offering 12months subs tho
I’ve been riding on IndieVelo since the summer. Haven’t had any of the issues you mentioned. Are you sure you have a strong enough computer? I had to get a newer computer/laptop to run it as I was using Apple TV with Zwift. Email support at indieVelo to help. They have been great and quite responsive. The Facebook group is helpful too.
I’ve been riding on IndieVelo since the summer. Haven’t had any of the issues you mentioned. Are you sure you have a strong enough computer? I had to get a newer computer/laptop to run it as I was using Apple TV with Zwift. Email support at indieVelo to help. They have been great and quite responsive. The Facebook group is helpful too.
Hi, thanks for the reply.
The desktop I tried is a Ryzen 9 with 32GB RAM and a GTX 1660 Super running in an X570 carbon pro Motherboard.
The laptops were a Dell XPS three years old and an older ThinkPad
None of them worked.
I’ll give it up for now, but thanks for the reply.
DC Rainmaker has an interesting short write-up. While I’m personally not looking for a Zwift-like platform, I do subscribe to TP Premium, so I might be inclined to use Indievelo as a freebie if I like it after trying.
On the other hand, I’m still keen on supporting the small business that is TrainerDay whose app just does the job for me.
I don’t think indievelo/tpvirtual is really a competitor to TrainerDay. From what I understand you should be able to use TrainerDay as the planning tool and then push workouts to TrainingPeaks, which I think will show up as a workout in tpvirtual. At least, that’s how I imagine it should work, but I’m totally talking out of my ass.
I just downloaded TrainingPeaks virtual a couple of days ago, it wouldn’t run on my ancient Zwift laptop (old i7 that is stuck on win10). I have another slightly newer laptop Ryzen 5 w 12Gb ram that I just installed it on this morning, I’ll be giving it a try and if I like it I’ll switch from Zwift.
Tried it. Joined a group ride with super nice people. Loved it. Very well thought out and it seems there’s not much missing from the app other than the crowds you get on Zwift. It probably worked to my advantage that I ran the app on a relatively new (less than 2-year-old) Mac with the M1 processor.
As to Trainerday, of course it’s not a direct competitor, but then again if I use any trainer app (such as TP Virtual), I won’t really need TrainerDay. My workouts either originate in TrainingPeaks or are exported to TP/Garmin.