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Planning for the Future

December 04, 2009 03:44 PM

Over the long weekend, we had the opportunity to think and sketch out future ideas for Pedal Room. Here's a little taste of what we're considering doing.

Marketplace

We plan to build out a very simple marketplace where you can sell bikes and bike parts. It's gonna be sweet!

Mobile App

Coomer's already playing with the alpha version of the new Pedal Room mobile app on his iPhone. It will allow you to quickly and easily see what's going on in Pedal Room land. There will also be cool features like finding people and bikes near you. In a new city and looking for people to ride with? Just click the "find nearby" button and contact some nearby cyclists!

Even Better Bike/Member Search

We'll also be rolling out some sweet new search features that will make finding others even easier!

Sharing Options

We want to make it easier to share bikes with the world! Quick access to share URLs, Twitter and Facebook integration, etc.

That's not it, but that's what we're thinking right now. What do you think? Let us know!

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Big Milestone!

October 31, 2009 07:49 AM

We just hit one-thousand members! Thanks everyone who's been a part so far, and everyone who will play a part in the booming future of Pedal Room!

It took us a bit longer than we hoped to get to one-thousand, but the next thousand (and many more) should come much more quickly. The community in general and Pedal Room are always growing, and we're behind the scenes always planning for growth and improving the site to make Pedal Room the best place for bikes!

Spread the word and let's make Pedal Room even bigger and better! Thanks again everyone!

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Advanced Bike Search Released!

October 11, 2009 07:11 PM

Today we launched something that we've been meaning to build for a while - better bike search. After all, bikes is what we're all about. Now Pedal Room has better bike searching options.

You can search by keywords like you've been able to before, but also by location, and you can choose to sort bikes in various order and show only bikes with photos as well!

One thing we had a lot of fun building that we hope you guys will enjoy is our location search. Say you see some cool bike in Ballard (a neighborhood here in Seattle) and want to find it. You can search for location "Ballard" on the advanced bike search page, choose to sort by distance, and then results will come back not only in Ballard, but also in the neighboring areas. Of course, if you sorted by distance, the bikes closest to your entered location will show up first. See the image below for a rough idea of what we're talking about.

Enjoy the features, and let us know what you think!

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Upgraded Tag Clouds and Member Search

October 07, 2009 08:05 AM

We just finished upgrading our tag clouds to make it easier to see what the most popular and least popular tags are. There used to be a ton of tiny tags and one or two large ones, but now tags are better distributed thanks to our new logarithmic algorithm. We hope you guys enjoy it!

Also, we upgraded our member search with an option to search for only members with bikes. We'll be adding a similar option to find only members with photos and sorting options soon, as well as sorting options for bikes and an advanced bike search! Check back often for more features and more great bikes added from all over!

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New Bike/Member Browsing Features

October 04, 2009 11:46 AM

We just released some new features that we hope you guys will enjoy! You can now browse bikes by tag, search for members by location as well as name, order member search results, and find everything a bit easier (we hope) with the new navigation menus.

Pretty soon we'll be building an advanced bike search as well as enhanced member searching options, and much more! Let us know what you think, and stay tuned for more updates!

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A Little Preview of What's Coming Soon

October 02, 2009 06:46 AM

Just a little preview for you guys. We'll be releasing some new features this weekend, including advanced member search, and better bike browsing/searching options, as well as our new navigation menus to expose the new functionality. Stay tuned and ride safe!

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Featured Bikes!

August 31, 2009 04:08 AM

Every so often, you see something really special - a gorgeous bike or beautifully-thought-out photo for example - and you just want to share it!

Starting today, we'll be featuring bikes on Pedal Room! Awesome bikes, bikes with great photos, bikes that are unique, etc. Be sure to check back often to see what's featured, and give us a shout if you see something feature-worthy!

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Stats on Bikes and some other Small Updates

August 29, 2009 08:52 AM

We just released a neat new feature for you guys! You can now view
stats on your bike, including bike pageviews and how many people (and
who) have favorited your bike. Just login and view your bike(s) and
you'll see the info on the right side of the page.

If there are any other stats you'd love to see for your bike, let us know and we'll consider adding them!

We also fixed a couple bugs and did some small tweaks here and there, including automatically linking URLs in bike profiles and cleaning up the home page a bit.

Visit Pedal Room to check out the new stuff!

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Couple Small Updates

August 24, 2009 09:47 AM

Over the weekend, we did a lot of work on Pedal Room.

Most noticeable are the new formats for notification emails. They now are sent out in HTML (and text as well for older email clients/phones, etc.) which makes the links work better and the emails in general work better.

The other work this weekend was all behind the scenes. We switched over to a more powerful unit testing framework (SimpleTest for those who are curious) and wrote over one hundred new tests. The new framework and tests allow us to release code more rapidly, because testing lots of functionality is now done quickly and automatically. This translates into better stability, fewer bugs, and more features, so stay tuned!

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New Notification Options and Improved Messaging

August 17, 2009 01:39 AM

We just released some new notification options! You can now get email notifications when you receive new messages or comments!

We've also added the ability to view your sent messages and enhanced the reply-to-message page so that the message you're replying to is displayed. Let us know what you think!

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Stickers!

August 16, 2009 08:56 AM

We just received our first shipment of professionally-made Pedal Room stickers! We're pretty happy with them - super cheap yet made of outdoor-quality vinyl.

Want some stickers? Post here (leave some sort of contact info) or contact us and we'll hook you up!

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Welcome to the Pedal Room Blog!

August 15, 2009 11:40 AM

Welcome welcome! Pedal Room has been steadily growing since its launch, and we're excited to start a simple blog!

Here's where we'll be posting all sorts of stuff...site updates big and small, ideas we want to share, Pedal Room related photos, etc.

Stay tuned and enjoy!

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