[HN Gopher] PelotonCal
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PelotonCal
Author : hasheddan
Score : 32 points
Date : 2022-12-26 18:12 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| jimlongton wrote:
| Is using another companies trademarked name in the URL and
| service name and collecting their users names, emails and
| passwords not likely to lead to some legal action?
| dddrh wrote:
| Not sure about the company name, but there are communities that
| have revolve around Peloton that make access of the login.
|
| https://pzpack.com/ Being the one I'm aware of as it can
| analyze past rides.
| jimlongton wrote:
| Unless they plan to offer similar services in future it seems
| Peloton are missing an opportunity to become a platform by
| not providing an API.
| RC_ITR wrote:
| Peloton is probably the weakest example possible of this since
| they took a very common and established word (for a group of
| people riding together) as their brand.
|
| In more practical terms, back when PTON was still a stock
| darling, they constantly pushed how engaged their community was
| via Facebook groups, etc. so going after this would probably be
| a death knell signal that the magic is completely gone.
| chrisbaker98 wrote:
| Am I the only one who had no idea until now that "peloton" is
| an existing dictionary word and not just a brand name?
| elteto wrote:
| It means "platoon" in Spanish.
| ioblomov wrote:
| And French.
| mcintyre1994 wrote:
| Probably not, but if you ever watch a cycling race with
| commentary on TV then you'll hear it used. I'd guess since
| they expanded out from just cycling it's probably not super
| unusual for people to come across them first though.
| Lev1a wrote:
| I've seen it a bunch of times on TV when my father watched
| Tour de France, Giro, etc.
| [deleted]
| blensor wrote:
| We did something similar for VRWorkout where group sessions were
| available as an external ical calendar. The problem was that one
| can not add an external calendar to google calendar from the
| mobile device. Only from the web calendar, which is kind of
| annoying.
|
| Not sure if they are using an external calendar, but what would
| be the best way to update a big group of people (that opt into
| it) about certain events that happen every few days ?
| NoboruWataya wrote:
| I've only recently started using a calendar to keep track of my
| personal schedule (the same way it is normal to do so for one's
| work schedule). I would like more tools like this to make it more
| convenient than manually adding everything (though ideally using
| .ics rather than Google Cal). Either via third party tools or
| companies allowing you to download .ics files from them.
|
| Flights are an area this would be particularly handy; some
| airlines allow you to download flight reservations as .ics files,
| but very few in my experience. I looked into making a script to
| do this in Python before (based on confirmation emails) and while
| it would be quite doable, the lack of consistency in how the
| emails are formatted and the airports are described makes it non-
| trivial (if you want to properly handle timezones).
| gkedzierski wrote:
| TripIt does what you want, and more. (Imports flight
| confirmation emails automatically, and gives you an iCal feed
| you can subscribe to in your calendar)
| NoboruWataya wrote:
| Looks good! I may sign up.
|
| Interestingly, I had a brief look for open source
| alternatives and found that KDE Itinerary[0] may do a similar
| thing, and that the same code has been re-used in a Nextcloud
| Mail extension[1]. I don't use either so haven't been able to
| test directly yet. But I did use a CLI tool based on the same
| KDE code[2] and while it doesn't output iCal it does seem to
| correctly extract the details from a reservation email (I
| tested on Ryanair).
|
| 0: https://apps.kde.org/itinerary/
|
| 1: https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2020/01/18/kde-itinerary-
| nextclo...
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| 2: https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2019/09/21/kde-itinerary-cli-
| ext...
| sameline wrote:
| flightyapp.com on iOS also supports flight import via email
| and has calendar integration.
| sameline wrote:
| My partner and I use anylist.com on iOS to plan each week's
| meals. It supports creation of a calendar that you can
| subscribe to in your calendaring app. That calendar has all-day
| event for all the meals in a day. Handy to see at a glance what
| we'll cook for dinner along with the rest of our evening plans.
| newaccount74 wrote:
| Calendars are one of those things where I just don't get why tech
| companies can't work together to make them interoperable.
|
| Maybe in 10 years, once the EU managed to make messengers
| interoperate, they can do the same for calendars.
|
| I don't understand why I can't just share calendars between
| iCloud users and Google users, or like here, let Google users
| easily subscribe to 3rd party calendars.
| tracker1 wrote:
| Lock-in... CalDAV has been a thing for a long time, and many
| (most) calendar apps outside google's own (and MS) do support
| this format. It's a bit wonky and sharing/interop are less than
| great.
|
| In the end, nobody is going to come up with a great server
| solution to calendar/mail/contacts because in the end, every
| effort I'm aware of has turned into a commercial solution
| because it takes a lot of time, effort and support. If I ever
| won a significant lottery amount, I would probably work on such
| a thing. Not sure I'd see any big benefactor for this any time
| soon.
| CharlesW wrote:
| > _Calendars are one of those things where I just don 't get
| why tech companies can't work together to make them
| interoperable._
|
| iCalendar standard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar
| (RFC for iCalendar standard:
| https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc5545/)
|
| With macOS it's easy to publish1 and subscribe2 to calendars in
| this standards-based format. AFAIK, there's wide support for
| the iCalendar in other apps too, including Google Calendar,
| Microsoft Outlook, and Mozilla Thunderbird.
|
| 1 https://support.apple.com/guide/calendar/publish-or-
| unpublis... 2
| https://support.apple.com/guide/calendar/subscribe-to-calend...
| newaccount74 wrote:
| Just like you I thought this was a solved problem, but when I
| wanted to try it in pactice, I ran into two issues with this:
|
| 1) The calendar subscriptions aren't read/write, they are
| read only for subscribers. You can't share calendars between
| Google and iCloud read/write.
|
| 2) Android apparently doesn't support CalDAV! I tried, but I
| couldn't get an iCloud published calendar to show on an
| Android phone, not even read only.
|
| The only way that I managed to use a shared calendar between
| iPhone and Android was to use a Google account on both
| phones.
| pard68 wrote:
| In college I put in about 200 miles a week on my bicycle. After I
| got a fulltime job, got married, and had kids my mileage dropped
| to around 100 miles a week. I now live rurally the roads are
| exceptionally narrow and have 60mph speed limits, and so I have
| not worked up the courage to ride. I have thought about mountain
| biking instead, between my own 125 acres and the 25,000 acres of
| national forest I back up to, there is a lot of opportunities
| there, but I have never loved mountain biking.
|
| Peloton and similar products have piqued my interest but I have
| never had much love for stationary bikes in gyms. Anyone have
| experience with Peloton's product? Is it better than the gym
| bikes? Do the road simulations really match up?
| elijaht wrote:
| I would not recommend Peloton specifically- I don't think it
| really scratches the road riding itch. It's closer to spin
| class than a serious biking session. I would look at Zwift for
| what you used to do.
|
| I say that as a former Peloton employee and current user who is
| very happy with the bike
| xyzelement wrote:
| I was a peloton skeptic and now love it. I am not sure road
| simulation is the real selling point. Yes it's better than
| looking at a wall but you can as well look at any random video
| ( including of roads)
|
| The by far chief value of peloton is access to the class
| library. If you find rising boring and do better w an engaging
| instructor (as turns out is the case for me) then it's well
| worth it
| batter wrote:
| Sadly no. Well, probaby depends on person and what you like.
| But you'll be very disappointed if you consider Peloton to be
| something more than bike + tablet
| lopatin wrote:
| I also don't have experience with it, but have heard from
| friends that a big part of the appeal is that there are certain
| trainers that you can follow. I guess they're like
| influencers/trainers, that "ride" along with you and have
| subscribers or something. It's also a monthly fee. Personally
| I'd rather use a regular bike and listen to an audiobook.
| Cockbrand wrote:
| Two tangential thoughts:
|
| - Try a gravel bike, which gives you a very road bike like
| feel, but isn't restricted to paved roads. I use mine to do 95%
| of the off-road stuff I used to do with my MTB, plus a lot of
| road.
|
| - I've used my road bike on a smart trainer with Rouvy, Zwift
| and Wahoo SYSTM lately, and it's by far better than the typical
| gym bike. I switch between these apps, as they all have their
| individual strengths and weaknesses. That said, if you already
| own a road bike, a smart trainer might be better for giving
| stationary cycling a try. Smaller investment, smaller footprint
| when not in use.
| pard68 wrote:
| I have been looking at gravel bikes. They seem like a good
| compromise. I live on an asphalt road, but there is a hundred
| or more miles of dirt forestry roads within a mile or two.
| Might be that a gravel bike can get me to and through the
| forestry roads.
| dd82 wrote:
| Your examples are why I really don't like road riding too much,
| and much prefer trail riding. Why don't you like MTB?
|
| The big reason I like it is because you need to focus on the
| now and next, you can't zone out, unlike with road riding. And
| its alot more dynamic all around, keeps you honest with
| yourself.
|
| As others have said, gravel biking might be an option for you,
| if you put wider tires on.
| savanaly wrote:
| I've been using it daily since I got it, which was just a
| couple weeks ago. So I'm very much still in the honeymoon
| period and shouldn't comment on whether it's worth it in the
| long view. But in the short view I have been entirely satisfied
| with the pricing and product. I did renting which is available
| in my country for the Bike and Bike+ (I chose Bike, and in
| retrospect don't regret it) and plan to convert to a purchase
| if I'm still using it in six+ months. I probably wouldn't have
| gone through with it if the option to rent wasn't there. Even
| the one month free trial that is offered with the purchase
| option isn't good enough to reassure me I won't use it for e.g.
| 40 days then drop it and be out $2000. But with renting I pay
| ~$100/month and can drop it whenever I notice it's been a month
| without using it.
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