Show HN: I Built an Indoor Cycling Web App to Get in Shape Through Gaming

olivier-kThursday, April 25, 2024

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startona.com

I spent the past three years developing an exercise game for indoor smart trainers called Startona. The game is built from scratch in TypeScript and only uses a couple of small libraries. The result is a PWA that showcases the capabilities of a modern web browser through technologies like Web-Bluetooth and WebGL.

Developed to turn turbo-trainer workouts into intense gaming sessions, Startona combines structured workouts with exercise games that boost specific aspects of the player's fitness, such as speed, power, and endurance. Although Startona is built for fun by providing new and unique indoor cycling experiences, the game also contains all the features you would expect from a modern indoor cycling app: single-player workouts, multiplayer challenges, personalized structured workouts, detailed activity logs, built-in Strava support, regular content updates, and various fitness tracking systems to help players stay motivated.

All that is needed to try Startona is a smart trainer and a web browser with Bluetooth support (Chrome, Edge, Arc...). Sorry, no iOS support yet.

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