Originally Posted by
prj71
The thing is what you are trying to do already exists.
I belong to a few private facebook cycling groups. For mountain biking, people announce time, date and place to meet up and ride. For road biking they do same along with a posting a link for the route that was created in Ride with GPS that can be downloaded onto numerous bike computers. If anyone wants to track where anyone else is at you can use Garmin live tracking or there is an app called Glympse.
Then if you develop an app and charge a monthly subscription fee...less people are going to want to use it.
Most new to market products already exist in one form or another but the way it has been approached from a UX and implementation point of view is what makes it stand out from the crowd.
We don’t intend to charge the user, we’re thinking more along the lines of charging the organisers. We want to be able to offer the service free to cyclists.
The implementation you are referring to requires a number of different services and products. We’d like a single point of entry.