snowbuddy

Your best buddy on the mountain

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MadKudu

Looks cool, can't wait to try it. Two questions: - What's your differentiator from the many existing apps? - How are you doing on battery consumption? Last season I reverted to using my Garmin 'cause my phone would never survive a 9AM - 4PM.

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12yr ago

Madeon: Adventure Machine

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@paulcothenet Hey Paul, so the big difference between other stats apps, is that actually the stats are such a minor part of it, the main thing i've personally found *useful* has actually been the piste maps, and the yodel at your friends feature so that you can find each other more easily when you split up. From the stats point of view though, the "You just beat Syd's personal best" is a real winner. With regards to battery, this is something we obviously are very aware of. We've tried to battle test it quite a lot, I live by a glacier, and have been on the slopes quite a few times this past month making sure you don't have any issues. Using 5C tracking all day, 9-4 with 47% battery left happened one day

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12yr ago

Madeon: Adventure Machine

Maker

@paulcothenet Oh and also, some of the other tracking apps, are dog ugly, and pretty confusing about showing you as many numbers as possible to overwhelm you.

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12yr ago

Madeon: Adventure Machine

Maker

@paulcothenet oh and we also stop any of the "nice touches" (animations etc etc) once your battery drops below 60%

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12yr ago

MadKudu

@sydlawrence Awesome, can't wait to try it!

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12yr ago

Madeon: Adventure Machine

Maker

@paulcothenet ace :)

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12yr ago

Beautiful design. The introduction has a good flow and isn't obstructive. I love the color theme and how even the maps reflect this. I'm excited to try this out in Colorado over the winter holidays. In Buddies, under the title of the page 'Fetching friends...' never disappears. Is it completing the Facebook reference that I authorized? Small feature request as well: I'm in the oh-so mountainous region of Paris, France. The Map page sticks me here and I can't seem to view the piste maps even when I scroll over to Chamonix or Vail. Can we search a resort via search box or get a list by country/state somewhere?

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12yr ago

Madeon: Adventure Machine

Maker

@skylerwshaw Hey Skyler, I'm pleased you like how it all looks :) There are definitely piste maps in chamonix, it may take a second to load, obviously it's main use is for when you are actually at the resort itself. And with regards to the friends, yes, that's trying to complete the fb connection. Could you drop a feedback message via the about page in the app, and I can look into the buddies issue :)

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12yr ago

Madeon: Adventure Machine

Maker

@skylerwshaw Hey Skyler, I think I've found the issue and should have fixed it, hopefully it will no longer continuously "fetch friends" for you :)

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12yr ago

Madeon: Adventure Machine

Maker

(accidental double post)

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12yr ago

Looks cool! Awesome for the USA/CAN, but a bit harder for EU where data plans mean that this will be mainly for locals. You should maybe mention that it can't be used as an alternative to a transceiver.

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12yr ago

Madeon: Adventure Machine

Maker

@Simonatpaddle it doesn't need data to track your stats (but does for the social sides, but syncs when offline/online). Also the laws are changing soon so that you can't have expensive roaming... I'm a UK ex pat living in Austria, still using my UK 3 sim, as I can use data out here as though I was back in the UK :) You'll also be surprised how many resorts now have wifi on the lifts.

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12yr ago

Madeon: Adventure Machine

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@Simonatpaddle the resort i live in for example, Maria Alm (a tiny village in Austria) has wifi on all the lifts (which i myself, was hugely surprised by)

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12yr ago

@sydlawrence Yeah i've got 3 too. I was in Alagna,IT last year and using data for maps was really useful off-piste. I'm heading to Austria in December so I'll give it a try!

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12yr ago

Madeon: Adventure Machine

Maker

@Simonatpaddle ace :) where are you headed? Enjoy the snow!

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12yr ago

@sydlawrence I've always wanted to check out The Krippenstein in Dachstein but not sure there'll be enough snow. Might need to ask for a first hand report in a few weeks time :P

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12yr ago

Simply Wall Street

Are you able to use contour maps instead of piste maps? I know there are a few apps that do this (mainly for orienteering) but they are generally rubbish. I only ask because I have often 'lost' people when going backcountry, and this would be super useful!

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12yr ago

Madeon: Adventure Machine

Maker

@al__bentley that's a nice idea. So at the moment we have shaded land which kinda shows the contours of the land. But not perfectly. Could have it in the settings to turn on and off. Have added to the trello board :D ❄️

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12yr ago

Simply Wall Street

@sydlawrence Awesome, I believe the contour maps are available open source if you know where to look.

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12yr ago