Routeshuffle

The website for making random running routes in a few clicks

4 followers

The website for making random running routes in a few clicks

4 followers

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Generate random routes for running, walking or biking instantly. Enter your starting location and the number of miles or kilometers you want your route to be. It's the best way to make routes for running, walking or cycling in only a few clicks! Just enter your starting point, how long you want your route to be, and the sport.

Launch tags:

Web App•Health & Fitness•Maps

Launch Team

Riley Walz

Hopscotch

Maker

Hello Product Hunt! 👋 I'm really excited to bring you Routeshuffle, a project I've been working on for the last 3 months. It's a webapp for creating random routes for running, walking or cycling. It's very simple – all you have to do is enter your starting location and the distance that you want your route to be, and Routeshuffle handles the rest. As a 15 year old year-round runner, I built it because I would spend too much time scrolling around Google Maps for a nice route to go on, instead of actually running. With Routeshuffle, this is now a problem of the past. Routeshuffle is free to use, but with a premium membership you can save and export your routes to Google Maps, Komoot, GPX and more. You can also setup routes to be automatically made and emailed to you at specific times and days of the week. Thanks for reading this, and I hope you like the site! Let me know if you have any feedback or suggestions!

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7yr ago

Gareth Wilson

Bucket

@w this is great, really well done. I love that you can go straight to generating routes without signup.

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7yr ago

Ib Erik Söderblom

@w Nice ! I've been looking for something like this for a long time. Great job. I have a couple of small issues. First of, how to switch between mi / km should be more clear :-) I didnt try and click on the Miles, until I noticed on your homepage (making of Routeshuffle) that km's was an option :-) And the area in witch to enter the desired distance is really narrow. I do 3-digit biking distances and 2-digit runs. But what is a real pain is, that Routeshuffle constantly changes the desired distance. Example is a 30 km run, that can come out as 29.5 km. Thats absolutely fine. I wanna change the routing and click on Remake Route and then it cuts it to 5.8 km... Ok, I put in 31 km's then and calculate the route. Now it comes out as 3.8 km's. It's like it's only the first calculation thats close to the original desired distance... (?) For now I use it as a rough guide to finding new running/biking routes and then manually fine-tune a route from that. Having this program as an App (Android) and with a "my position" button would be awesome, when travelling in different countries. Keep up the good work. /Ib

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6yr ago

Riley Walz

Hopscotch

Maker

@ib_erik_soderblom Hi Ib! Yes, I know that Routeshuffle is currently really rough to work with. I've been working on a 2.0 version that will fix all of these issues and expand route creation so that you can do everything without leaving Routeshuffle. This was my first big coding project, so since then I've learned so much that I can use to rebuild a better version. Thank you for the feedback!!

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6yr ago

Igo Akulov

Hey, I loved it! I'm not a runner by any means, but if I jogged on regular, I'd totally use it. Are routes totally random or pseudo-random to avoid repetition? It was not obvious that you can change miles to kilometers. Plus, it didn't want to place me next to my house despite adding house number to the address - the best it could do is the street. I also think that some current premium features like exporting to Google Maps should really be. Also, jogging is more fun with a friend - do you have plans to address that? :)

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7yr ago

Riley Walz

Hopscotch

Maker

@igoruphere Thanks for the comment! Routes are pseudo-random, and routes may be repeated in areas with less roads but this is rare. Yes, I'll have to add a more obvious way of switching units. Currently, you can just click on the current units and it will switch to the opposite. I use the Open Street Map geocoder and will probably switch to a better one like Google Maps soon, as OSM isn't very accurate with house numbers. And if you want to share a route with a friend, just click the "Generate share link" button and you can get a link to send to someone else. Let me know if you have any questions, I'd be glad to answer them! 😊

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7yr ago