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Strava

Strava

software
Last discussed Sep 17, 2026

A fitness tracking app that allows users to record and share their exercise activities.

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Jason Calacanis
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Praised: Used by elite biking and running communities vs: Suggested as a missed acquisition opportunity for Nike to maintain athletic b...

"They should have really gotten into smart devices. If they owned Strava — all the elite biking and running people do — they should just embrace that."

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Mauro Botanes
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vs: Used as a comparison to describe Symmetry's social workout feed

"Here you have the social network. So it's like a Strava. You can see here all of the people in the feed uploading their workouts."

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Eric Seufert
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"Go to any subscription app, go on the Facebook library, find your favorite subscription app — Strava, whatever. Look up their ads and see where they link to. I guarantee you it's to the website."

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Manoj Dias
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"Strava said that run clubs quadrupled just in one year."

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Malcolm Gladwell
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Used for: Platform for athletes to publicly share all training data Praised: Natural fit for posting and sharing complete workout data

"Strava is the natural person for this. The condition should be you have to record everything and post everything."

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Brad Stulberg
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vs: Used as a comparison to Amazon sales rank for authors

"There's this terrible thing for authors called an Amazon sales rank, which is essentially Strava, the app that runners use to track how they stack up in real time, except for authors."

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Kelly Starrett
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"Theoretically, no one's going to look at your Strava someday and be like, 'Well, Tuesday...' You think these things matter and that people care and nobody cares."

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vs: Contrasted with INTVL as a speed-focused app that excludes casual runners and...

"I found on Strava I just cannot ever compete with people because it's essentially Olympians at this point. Strava has a little bit of an issue with speed runs and people getting hurt."

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vs: Used as a hypothetical competitor example to illustrate Meta Ads Library rese...

"Here's what Meta Ads Library looks like. This is Strava. So let's say I'm making a running app, I would look up Strava. I'd go through all these paid ads and be like, okay, why is this paid ad converting?"

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Nicholas Thompson
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Used for: Checking running segments and performance tracking

"I like actually like sometimes check my Strava segments, right? Like so I'm not"

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Charles Broskoski
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"I was thinking of a platform I like called Letterboxd for movies, or maybe Strava."

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