https://pistepal.app/ - a ski map app - built at breakneck speed over the last few months. I believe this is the only ski map app that offers turn-by-turn navigation!
Still a little bit rough around the edges but hopefully will be / is in decent enough shape for the start of the ski season (just about happening now..)
Currently figuring out the right balance of free tier & daily trial. Priced at $10/month and therefore significantly undercutting the competition, hopefully this is enough to gain entry into the market. (May need a more generous daily trial though, admittedly 10 minutes is not really enough to actually try it out on the mountain).
Seems ad spend is necessary to get any kind of traction...
Hey Dan, I think you're going to love what I've built.
The next release (a couple of days out) displays the relative altitude for all of your buddies - so you can immediately see who's above or below you.
On the iPhone, that info also lives in a Live Activity on the lock screen so you don't have to take your gloves off to see that essential info! (Android lock screen support will be coming right after).
If you'd like to help test the feature out, I'd really appreciate it - just drop me a message via https://pistepal.app/support and I'll link you up with an annual subscription.
Yeah very specifically above or below. You don’t need to share exact location data (although you’d still need access to it on the local device) - just elevation.
Don’t over engineer it - just an indicator about how much further down the slope or back up the slope the rest of the pack is.
I find it annoyingly frequent that I’m either waiting for mates who have bombed off ahead because I didnt see them pass, or I’m waiting at the bottom for mates who are up the slope waiting for me because they think I’m behind ! Literally hours wasted each trip doing this.
You might think a quick phone call is the solution to this but that’s too clunky. It’d be nice to take out my phone and just quickly see something on the home screen indicating this, or on the watch app.
That's a great idea. A lock screen widget could work really well here, showing the relative elevations of your buddies. You'd have to take your phone out - but you wouldn't have to take your gloves off!
Would also think about ways in which the app could indicate the elevation of others without having to stop, remove the gloves, picking the phone from my pocket, looking at the screen, and putting everything back on every time.
Maybe having different kinds of (infrequent) beeping in specific cases:
- when I'm last
- when I'm first
This could get old quite quickly thought, just a thought.
Screenshots in the App Stores, e.g. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pistepal/id6754510927
Still a little bit rough around the edges but hopefully will be / is in decent enough shape for the start of the ski season (just about happening now..)
Currently figuring out the right balance of free tier & daily trial. Priced at $10/month and therefore significantly undercutting the competition, hopefully this is enough to gain entry into the market. (May need a more generous daily trial though, admittedly 10 minutes is not really enough to actually try it out on the mountain).
Seems ad spend is necessary to get any kind of traction...
Feedback welcome!