Show HN: Pulse Running – find nearby runners and join their sessions (iOS beta)(testflight.apple.com)
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Show HN: Pulse Running – find nearby runners and join their sessions (iOS beta)
https://testflight.apple.com/join/9f56taxY
I kept skipping runs because I had nobody to go with. I looked for a solution that let me find other runners in real time near me — nothing existed. So I built it.
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> Pulse shows you nearby runners on a map with upcoming sessions you can join. Or create your own and let others find you. No club signup, no group chat management.
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> It's in early TestFlight beta (iOS only for now). I'm looking for runners who'd use this to tell me what's broken and what's missing.
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> TestFlight link: https://testflight.apple.com/join/9f56taxY
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Really like the clarity of the problem here — "I skipped runs because I had nobody to go with" is a sentence that sells itself.
One thing I'd watch closely in beta: the cold start problem is going to hit hard at the neighborhood level. A map with no nearby runners is lonelier than having no app at all. Worth thinking early about whether you seed sessions differently in low-density areas, or set expectations so the first experience doesn't kill retention before you hit critical mass.
Also curious — is the real-time location during a session opt-in or always-on? That's probably your single biggest trust lever with new users, especially women running alone. How you handle that could define whether this spreads or stalls.
What's the one thing you most want feedback on at this stage?
One thing I'd watch closely in beta: the cold start problem is going to hit hard at the neighborhood level. A map with no nearby runners is lonelier than having no app at all. Worth thinking early about whether you seed sessions differently in low-density areas, or set expectations so the first experience doesn't kill retention before you hit critical mass.
Also curious — is the real-time location during a session opt-in or always-on? That's probably your single biggest trust lever with new users, especially women running alone. How you handle that could define whether this spreads or stalls.
What's the one thing you most want feedback on at this stage?