Product Vote #1 - mentions, view past events, link Strava activites to group runs and score points!
Hey everyone!
This is super exciting! As many may know, Endorphins is fully community led. What this means is we constantly ask our members for feedback to ensure we build things with your best interest in mind. TBH... I think thats why it kinda works!
This app is a great example of our community first mentality. We asked our community for feedback in Community Vote 24 and 85% of members mentioned our old home in Circle wasn't up to our standard! So... we built the app you're using right now!
To make it even cooler, we have had a handful of members from within the community come together to help code the app and make it what it is today!!! This really ensures that we are making the best community experience possible and continue to create an amazing community for you and all of our members!
With this in mind...... now that the app is live... we need to know what to build next! And that is why we are hosting our first Product Vote!! In this vote, we will list several features that our city leads and members have suggested that we build! All you need to do is let us know which one you would like to see built next... and we will code it up and include it in an upcoming release of the app!
Option 1 - Tagging Members in posts and comments!
This feature has been widely suggested! We have seen several posts writing @memberName with the intention of tagging a friend without being able to!
In this feature, we would allow you to tag / mentions friends in posts and comments. Additionally, if you get tagged in a post, you would receive a push notification letting you know that you have been mentioned!
Option 2 - View Past Event Details and Attendees
We host 1500 free group runs a year. It is what we do! Right now, you can only see future events... but what if you want to see events you have been to and the other members who attended. Many of our members meet new people at runs. It is one of the best parts of Endorphins. The friends we make!!
This feature will allow you to see past events, and who attended the events so you can find the people who you ran with!!
Option 3 - Link Strava Activity to Events and score (a lot) of points
Ok! This one was suggested recently and it awesome (also probably the hardest of the options to build). Right now, our leaderboard is based off of virtual engagement - liking posts, commenting on posts, creating posts, etc... Each virtual action in the app has a weighted point value based on fostering an inclusive and awesome community experience. But right now... we do not offer any points for actually attending runs!!!
In this feature, we would allow anyone who has RSVP'd to an event the ability to link a recorded run on Strava to the event itself. There would be parameters in place to ensure the start time and start location of your Strava activity match the event description details to ensure people in Austin aren't linking runs to NYC runs to score points etc...
The idea behind this one is it incentivizes you to RSVP to events that you are actually attending so you can link your activity and rise the ranks on the leaderboard!!
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Ok! These are the three features in Product Vote #1. Now it is up to you on what we build next!!! We will leave this open for the next 48 hours and then get to work on building the feature that has the most votes!
So excited to continue making this app a stronger place for you to create meaningful connections!
Only the best,
Tyler + Endorphins Community Engineers!!!