Bande son MP3 sur YouTube, une appli, ou vous comptez vos 20 m dans la rue ?
Et c'est quoi la pire galère pendant ces séances en solo ? Le comptage des paliers, trouver 20 m plats et réguliers, tenir l'allure sans personne pour vous relancer ?
J'ai développé une app de bip test en pensant aux coachs qui font passer des tests à un groupe. Mode équipe, rapports, exports, tout le tremblement.
Un mois après la sortie, je regarde les chiffres : quatre personnes ont ouvert le mode équipe. Presque tous ceux qui l'installent s'entraînent seuls.
(Je suis le dev, je le précise. Pas de lien, je ne viens rien vendre ici.)
Du coup je préfère demander plutôt que continuer à deviner. Si tu prépares un concours et que tu t'entraînes seul :
Comment tu t'y prends en ce moment, concrètement ? Et qu'est-ce qui t'énerve le plus là-dedans ?
Je suis développeur mobile et j'essaie de vivre de mes apps, donc en toute transparence, c'est mon produit. Mais si je l'ai fait, c'est parce que quasiment tout le monde prépare le Luc Léger avec une vidéo YouTube, et pour ça c'est vraiment pas adapté. Le son se décale dès que ça bufferise. Tu te prends une pub en plein palier 7. Et si tu veux reprendre au palier 6, bon courage avec la barre de lecture.
Donc j'ai fait une app iOS, Cadlo (version Android en cours). Tu démarres au palier que tu veux, tu rentres le palier exigé par ton concours en objectif (ça varie selon SPP, SPV, gendarmerie, l'âge, etc., donc c'est toi qui le fixes), et après chaque séance elle te dit où tu en es par rapport à ça. Toutes les séances sont enregistrées, donc tu vois si tu progresses vraiment de semaine en semaine ou si tu plafonnes au même palier depuis un mois.
Il y a une partie gratuite pour tester correctement avant de décider si le payant vaut le coup pour toi. Je lis tous les retours, donc s'il manque un truc ou si c'est nul, dites-le.
Merci
I'm a mobile dev trying to make a living off my apps, so full disclosure, this is my product. But the reason I built it is that everyone prepping a bleep test seems to train off YouTube videos, and those are genuinely bad for the job. The audio drifts when it buffers. You get an ad in the middle of a level. And if you want to restart at level 6 you're stuck dragging the scrub bar about trying to find the right spot.
So I made an iOS app called Cadlo (Android is in the works). You start at whatever level you want, set 5:4 as your target, and after each run it tells you how far off you are. Runs are saved as well, so you can tell if you're actually improving week to week or just stuck on the same level.
There's a free tier so you can try it properly before deciding if the paid stuff is worth it to you. I read every bit of feedback, so if something's missing or rubbish, say so.
hey, i need honest words from people who actually ship on the App Store.
i build an app alone (iOS, Android coming) called Vely, for people who use city bike-share (Citi Bike, Vélib, and others). technically i'm proud of it. Live Activities that update during the whole ride, geofencing, widgets, all the background stuff done properly. as a dev, honestly it's some of my best work.
the problem: nobody find it. downloads are basically zero. i did the whole ASO thing, keywords, screenshots, descriptions in many languages, and it changed nothing. i'm a developer, not a marketer, and i clearly hit my wall here.
what it does different from the official apps (short version): the official apps show you a map full of numbers, you must open it, read it, decide yourself. Vely is the opposite. you set your commute one time, then it watch the stations for you and tell you WHEN to leave so a bike is there, and which dock is free at arrival so you don't circle the block. it push the decision, you don't interpret the data. basically "stop watching the station, the app tell you when to go".
so my real question for this sub: when the product is (i think) good but discovery is dead, what actually moved the needle for you? is ASO even worth it at my size, or is it all launch channels, content, press, paid? what would you do in my place?
i take the hard truths too, don't be shy. thank you 🙏
Quick disclosure up front: this is my own app, I built it solo, so yeah — this is self-promo. Rather say it than pretend otherwise.
For context, I'm not in NYC. I'm a dev in Paris and I ride the bike-share here every morning. The thing that drove me nuts was walking to my dock and finding it empty — or getting to the other end and circling for an open dock. The official apps show you availability right now, but you have to remember to open them, and at rush hour a dock empties out in five minutes.
So I built Vely for myself. Core idea: you set up your usual trip once — your home dock, your rough departure time. Then in the morning, before you head out, it checks your dock and sends a little briefing: how many bikes (and e-bikes) are there live, the weather, a countdown. Then it pings you when it's actually time to leave. You can set that anywhere from 5 to 60 minutes ahead depending on your walk to the dock.
Once you're riding, on a recent iPhone it stays on the lock screen / Dynamic Island: bikes at your start dock, open docks at your destination, without reopening the app.
It also auto-tracks rides (distance, CO₂, calories, little streaks/badges) and has the usual live map, but honestly the departure alert is the whole point.
Why I'm posting here: it already works with Citi Bike (and ~1,400 networks worldwide), so I'm genuinely curious whether the "leave now" ping is useful in NYC specifically — your dock churn and e-bike scarcity are a different beast than Paris. If Citi Bike riders want to try it and tear it apart, I'm all ears.
Two honest notes:
– iOS only for now. Android's in progress but not out yet, not going to pretend otherwise.
– Free to start (live map + one proactive trip, no time limit). There's an optional ~$2.99/mo tier for multiple trips, the Live Activity and widgets — saying it for transparency, it's not the point of the post.
Mostly after feedback: does a proactive "leave now" alert actually solve anything for you, or do Transit / the Lyft app already cover it? What's missing?
It's called Vely on the App Store if you want to look.
Thanks 🙏
Quick disclosure up front: this is my own app, I built it solo, so yeah — this is self-promo. Rather say it than pretend otherwise.
For context, I'm not in NYC. I'm a dev in Paris and I ride the bike-share here every morning. The thing that drove me nuts was walking to my dock and finding it empty — or getting to the other end and circling for an open dock. The official apps show you availability right now, but you have to remember to open them, and at rush hour a dock empties out in five minutes.
So I built Vely for myself. Core idea: you set up your usual trip once — your home dock, your rough departure time. Then in the morning, before you head out, it checks your dock and sends a little briefing: how many bikes (and e-bikes) are there live, the weather, a countdown. Then it pings you when it's actually time to leave. You can set that anywhere from 5 to 60 minutes ahead depending on your walk to the dock.
Once you're riding, on a recent iPhone it stays on the lock screen / Dynamic Island: bikes at your start dock, open docks at your destination, without reopening the app.
It also auto-tracks rides (distance, CO₂, calories, little streaks/badges) and has the usual live map, but honestly the departure alert is the whole point.
Why I'm posting here: it already works with Citi Bike (and ~1,400 networks worldwide), so I'm genuinely curious whether the "leave now" ping is useful in NYC specifically — your dock churn and e-bike scarcity are a different beast than Paris. If Citi Bike riders want to try it and tear it apart, I'm all ears.
Two honest notes:
– iOS only for now. Android's in progress but not out yet, not going to pretend otherwise.
– Free to start (live map + one proactive trip, no time limit). There's an optional ~$2.99/mo tier for multiple trips, the Live Activity and widgets — saying it for transparency, it's not the point of the post.
Mostly after feedback: does a proactive "leave now" alert actually solve anything for you, or do Transit / the Lyft app already cover it? What's missing?
It's called Vely on the App Store if you want to look.
Thanks 🙏
Quick disclosure up front: this is my own app, I built it solo, so yeah — this is self-promo. Rather say it than pretend otherwise.
For context, I'm not in NYC. I'm a dev in Paris and I ride the bike-share here every morning. The thing that drove me nuts was walking to my dock and finding it empty — or getting to the other end and circling for an open dock. The official apps show you availability right now, but you have to remember to open them, and at rush hour a dock empties out in five minutes.
So I built Vely for myself. Core idea: you set up your usual trip once — your home dock, your rough departure time. Then in the morning, before you head out, it checks your dock and sends a little briefing: how many bikes (and e-bikes) are there live, the weather, a countdown. Then it pings you when it's actually time to leave. You can set that anywhere from 5 to 60 minutes ahead depending on your walk to the dock.
Once you're riding, on a recent iPhone it stays on the lock screen / Dynamic Island: bikes at your start dock, open docks at your destination, without reopening the app.
It also auto-tracks rides (distance, CO₂, calories, little streaks/badges) and has the usual live map, but honestly the departure alert is the whole point.
Why I'm posting here: it already works with Citi Bike (and ~1,400 networks worldwide), so I'm genuinely curious whether the "leave now" ping is useful in NYC specifically — your dock churn and e-bike scarcity are a different beast than Paris. If Citi Bike riders want to try it and tear it apart, I'm all ears.
Two honest notes:
– iOS only for now. Android's in progress but not out yet, not going to pretend otherwise.
– Free to start (live map + one proactive trip, no time limit). There's an optional ~$2.99/mo tier for multiple trips, the Live Activity and widgets — saying it for transparency, it's not the point of the post.
Mostly after feedback: does a proactive "leave now" alert actually solve anything for you, or do Transit / the Lyft app already cover it? What's missing?
It's called Vely on the App Store if you want to look.
Thanks 🙏
D'abord, je joue franc-jeu : j'ai développé l'app (Cadlo) moi-même, donc c'est de l'autopromo — si les règles du sub ne le permettent pas, aucun souci, les modos peuvent supprimer.
Je poste parce que je pense que ça peut réellement servir ici. Quand on prépare l'épreuve du Luc Léger (test navette) pour le concours, s'entraîner chez soi c'est galère : soit on achète le boîtier à 300-400 €, soit on lance une vidéo YouTube avec des bips souvent imprécis, et un test décalé de quelques secondes ne veut plus rien dire.
Du coup j'ai codé une app iOS qui reproduit précisément les paliers. Les bips sont programmés à l'échantillon audio près, donc la cadence ne dérive pas sur tout le test.
Concrètement pour un candidat :
- Le test navette / Luc Léger complet, avec les paliers officiels
- Un chrono et un calcul de placement des plots (pour caler tes distances au mètre)
- Le test de Cooper si tu veux varier
Tu t'entraînes seul avec juste ton iPhone et des écouteurs, sur une piste ou un gymnase.
En toute transparence : c'est iOS uniquement (iPhone), Android (encours de dev) et le Luc Léger, le Cooper et le chrono sont gratuits — de quoi bosser ton épreuve sans payer. D'autres
protocoles plus poussés (VMA, fractionné programmable…) sont en abonnement, mais pour préparer le concours le gratuit suffit.
Si vous voyez un truc à améliorer ou un détail de l'épreuve que je gère mal, je suis preneur. Bon courage à ceux qui passent les épreuves.
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