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RideFollow turns a cyclist's live GPS into a spectator-friendly ride page. Start a ride, share one private link, and friends or family can follow speed, distance, route progress, elevation and ETA from any browser—no account or app required. They can send cheers that buzz the rider's phone. Free during the beta on iOS and Android.
Hey Product Hunt — Francesco here, the solo maker behind RideFollow.
My girlfriend loves cycling. When she is out on a long ride, I catch myself checking her location, watching the distance climb, guessing when she will be home, and cheering from the sofa. Most cycling products are built around the rider and the post-ride upload. I wanted to build the screen for the people watching.
RideFollow turns a ride into a small live event:
The rider starts a ride and shares one private link.
Friends and family follow live from any browser, with no account or app.
The page shows speed, distance, route progress, elevation, and ETA in plain language.
Spectators can send cheers that buzz the rider's phone.
Sharing is off by default and ends with the ride.
It is an early, free beta on iOS and Android. There is also a simulated live dashboard on the website, so you can try the spectator experience immediately.
The question I most want help with: when you are watching someone you care about ride, what do you need to understand at a glance that RideFollow does not show yet?
If you test it, please tell me what confused you or broke. That is much more useful to me than a generic compliment.
My partner used it on a long ride and the elevation graph was actually accurate on my laptop. The cheer buzz on her phone was a fun touch, way better than a static tracker link.
The no-account spectator link is such a thoughtful call. Telling grandma to download an app just to watch your Sunday loop would have killed the whole vibe.
Shared a link with my partner while out on a long ride and watching the cheers pop up on my wrist was a fun little motivator, and the elevation graph actually matched what I was suffering through.
How long does the phone buzz stay visible to the rider mid-ride, and does it auto-pause tracking when the battery drops below a certain level?
New version also with support to tracking using the CLI ridefollow-cli
How does the battery hold up if the rider leaves the live tracking running for a full multi-hour ride, and does the spectator page refresh automatically or do they need to keep reopening it?
Shared a link with my partner on a long ride and she could actually buzz my phone mid-route with a cheer. That little buzz at mile 40 made the whole hill feel shorter.
A small thing that would make this feel even more social: let spectators drop a pin on the route map with a short note, so the rider sees "your friend left a cheer at the top of the climb." It would give the cheers some context and make long rides feel like less of a solo effort.
About RideFollow on Product Hunt
“Live bike rides your friends can watch and cheer”
RideFollow was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 7 upvotes and 12 comments, placing #92 on the daily leaderboard. RideFollow turns a cyclist's live GPS into a spectator-friendly ride page. Start a ride, share one private link, and friends or family can follow speed, distance, route progress, elevation and ETA from any browser—no account or app required. They can send cheers that buzz the rider's phone. Free during the beta on iOS and Android.
RideFollow was featured in Android (57.4k followers), iOS (110.5k followers) and Biking (3.4k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 81.6k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted RideFollow?
RideFollow was hunted by Francesco Vezzani. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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