Show HN: Yourshoesmells.com – Find the most smelly boulder gym

37 pointsposted 10 hours ago
by boshenz
(yourshoesmells.com)

38 Comments

Thorrez

6 hours ago

>ranking Boulder gym stinkiness

The capitalization makes me think it's about gyms in Boulder, CO.

kakacik

5 hours ago

Thought so too but then I scrolled to Europe and where I live literally every single gym is on the map, even one that is either very non-public or only exists on google maps (tried to get there once but there was absolutely nothing). Both eastern and western Europe covered very well, kudos for grepping those places properly.

Ajedi32

4 hours ago

I wonder where they're getting the data. I assumed OSM but I found at least one place on this map that I couldn't find on OSM or in All the Places (but it is on Google Maps).

If anything it seems to err on the side of false positives. A lot of these places seem to be traditional gyms or trampoline parks that I don't think have any bouldering walls.

Ne02ptzero

4 hours ago

I wonder as well. Most of the climbing gyms are missing in France's big cities (Arkose, ClimbUp, etc) and the School Room is not even on the map :( !

boshenz

4 hours ago

I used Google map API to fetch all the gyms then cached it locally. It only allows (at least from what I can find) text search within a viewport. I think there are some problems when loading boulder gyms in France. At first glance, I thought France was not really into bouldering...

lxgr

2 hours ago

You should consider feeding your data into OSM! Surely there's already a suitable metadata tag for olfactics?

Ne02ptzero

3 hours ago

> At first glance, I thought France was not really into bouldering...

You'd be very wrong! There is at least 40 bouldering gyms in Paris (and suburbs) alone.

yapyap

3 hours ago

That first glance was a very wrong glance considering that Fontainebleau is widely considered the bouldering Mecca

KomoD

4 hours ago

> or only exists on google maps

Because it is just Google Maps data and includes tons of just random places (like sporting goods stores, parking lots, cycling parks)

boshenz

4 hours ago

True. I did fetch data from Google Maps. Can't guarantee that the data is accurate in every place. But i think i will implement something like a "add/remove your gyms"

davedx

2 hours ago

Amazing, the one I go to that only opened last year in Ede, the Netherlands is there! I was its first vote :)

boxedsound

10 hours ago

Funny and practical to know if the gym stinks.

Just my two scents: I find the font incredibly hard to read.

sunrunner

9 hours ago

Everyone nose what you did there.

mikestew

2 hours ago

When I click the "use my location" icon and I'm in Redmond, WA, 2 out of the 3 gyms listed are in Redmond, OREGON. I imagine it might be doing to same for city names that are in multiple states. But when I zoom into Portland, OR (rather than use the "my location" button) I don't see gyms for Portland, ME (maybe there aren't any in ME?).

And, yeah, that font sucks for readability.

Quitschquat

3 hours ago

I would like to filter via Smells Like Ass vs Smells Like Balls. I have a different tolerance for each

fishbacon

6 hours ago

The font you chose is borderline illegible. Password being 3-20 characters makes me nervous.

Fun idea though.

dddddaviddddd

4 hours ago

For urban gyms, at least in Montreal, a slider for bicycle parking is more useful than a checkbox. Some gyms have many more bicycles parked than cars, sometimes in winter too. Many gyms don’t even have car parking because transit/bike/walking is the expected way to get there.

boshenz

4 hours ago

Interesting! Noted!

atrus

5 hours ago

I see a lot of complaints about the font, and I'm just curious what makes it so hard to read? Is English your second language, I know reading Japanese for me in different or (worse!) handwritten makes it 10x harder for me to read. Are you just not used to a handwritingish font, and only read more typewritery fonts? Older than me (35+)?

It just feels weird that a perfectly legible font has multiple complaints, and I don't understand why or how?

stronglikedan

3 hours ago

To me, it's not the font face in particular, but that it's sized too small for the complexity of the font face, specifically.

abound

5 hours ago

I think the font is just "different" enough that it sets off something in people.

Ironically, it's also the default font used by Excalidraw (Virgil IIRC), and people seem to generally like the style + legibility of Excalidraw-drawn diagrams.

0_gravitas

4 hours ago

Looking around my area, unsure what the heuristics are for determining whats a climbing/boulder gym, but there's quite a few false-positives. I got excited because I thought there was some new options in my otherwise duopolized island.

Phelinofist

9 hours ago

This might attract a certain type of people

mock-possum

3 hours ago

My first thought too, clear fetish content

lukeinator42

4 hours ago

Is there a way to request the addition of a gym?

boshenz

4 hours ago

There will be. Wanted to get this out to see the public reaction

GregBrrrrrrrr

9 hours ago

10/10 for the login username placeholder text alone

nailer

6 hours ago

It’s very odd. Bouldering gyms consistently smell of feet but yoga studios do not despite both being an open toed activity.

ubermonkey

6 hours ago

Bouldering is not a barefoot activity. Bouldering (and climbing) depend on special shoes.

The smell in a climbing or bouldering gym is because many climbers (and most climbers above a beginner/intermediate level) are probably taking OFF their shoes when not actively climbing. You do this outside, too -- the shoes are TIGHT and pretty uncomfortable to stand around in, so you only wear them when you're on the rock.

Climbing and bouldering are pretty intense, though, so you will get sweaty. And you'll sweat in your shoes. And the shoes will get stinky. Shoe stink is often somewhat contained if your foot is still IN the shoe, but if you take them off everyone gets to enjoy the aroma.

Unlined leather shoes handle the funk the best. OTOH, shoes with uppers made of textiles, especially when lined, end up being de facto bioweapons. I am not cursed with especially stinky sweat or feet, but I had a pair of fabric-lined climbing shoes that had to ride in the trunk going to and from the gym or the crag because having them inside the passenger compartment of the car was absolutely untenable.

Yoga, OTOH, is done barefoot. People often show up very minimal shoes. There's a sweat smell in many yoga spaces, especially hot yoga spaces, but it's not the funk associated with shoes.

turdprincess

5 hours ago

Must be a shoe type thing - I’ve never had any smell with La Sportiva (solution, futura, Muira or katana)

petsfed

3 hours ago

All of the velcro katanas I've ever owned ultimately ended up pretty stank. I think its the textile lining. Meanwhile, my Muira VCS have stayed pretty clean. My Muira Lace, not so much.

donq1xote1

6 hours ago

Lamo this product got me laugh for five minutes hahahha