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What is Bike-Ly?

The Story

When I bought my first mountain bike, I quickly felt the need to keep track of some data about it. At first I used Excel spreadsheets — I entered all sorts of data about the bike, components, contracts (my first bike was a leased one) and settings. But at some point that got a bit boring…

How Bike-Ly came to be

Strictly speaking, this is already version 3 of Bike-Ly:

  • Version 1: Excel spreadsheets
  • Version 2: A Python app that never saw the light of day
  • Version 3: The current platform

I see Bike-Ly primarily as a platform for all data related to your bike and the hobby.

Bike-Ly is actively developed and open to everyone as a platform.

The Tech Stack

I’ll admit it — I have an IT background and have been running a WordPress blog about my IT projects for over 15 years. Bike-Ly is my new project. If you’re curious, you can find out more about the Bike-Ly stack here. (For all non-IT folks: this is where the boring tech talk begins — feel free to jump straight to Installation instead.)

  • Full stack running as containers
  • Modern frameworks
  • Scalable architecture
  • PostgreSQL as database
  • Authentication via OIDC
  • Unit tests for the entire app
  • Designed as a Progressive Web App (PWA)
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