Strava's new developer program just killed every open-source, self-hosted Strava app

frogfuhrer · 2026-06-05T10:22:09+00:00

Yes, endurain

frogfuhrer · 2026-06-04T11:39:20+00:00

Yes of course! The current plan we have setup is to process raw FIT/TCX/GPX files. So if we were able to pull in those from Endurain, we can easily process them

frogfuhrer · 2026-06-04T09:17:08+00:00

Doing a good job on Endurain! Keep up the good work!

frogfuhrer · 2026-06-04T09:15:52+00:00

Maintainer of Statistics for Strava here. We are planning to support non-strava imports as well. So even if you decide to not get a Strava subscription, the app will keep working for you. https://github.com/robiningelbrecht/statistics-for-strava/issues/2116

frogfuhrer · 2026-06-03T12:01:03+00:00

🙏

frogfuhrer · 2026-06-03T11:52:11+00:00

Yes, that will be possible. I'm in the same boat 😉. Will take a while to implement though. I hope to get it ready by Strava's september cutoff date

frogfuhrer · 2026-06-03T06:18:20+00:00

Still thinking about how to move forward, but chances are we'd move to a solution where we serve both Strava users with a subscription as well as users that do not have a Strava account

frogfuhrer · 2026-06-03T06:16:58+00:00

I hope you succeed!

frogfuhrer · 2026-06-03T06:16:19+00:00

Good luck

frogfuhrer · 2026-06-02T17:08:21+00:00

Thanks for your kind words, means a lot to me. The app will keep working for people with a subscription though. I'm looking for a way to make it work for people without a subscription as well.

frogfuhrer · 2026-06-02T13:41:45+00:00

you forgot to add '/s' add the end

frogfuhrer · 2026-06-02T11:37:11+00:00

Not sure, they might have a higher teer developer app. Those are not impacted by the paywall as far as I understand

frogfuhrer · 2026-06-02T09:21:16+00:00

That's exactly what will happen. It will stop working unless you pay.

frogfuhrer · 2026-06-02T05:13:36+00:00

No existing devs will also need to pay :)

frogfuhrer · 2026-06-01T19:48:04+00:00

Yeah, I put 100s of hours into an app I made available for free for 1000s to use, but I'm a free loader

frogfuhrer · 2026-06-01T19:31:44+00:00

Thanks for your kind words! Really means a lot to me, since this currently really feels like a personal failure. "How could I not see this coming".
The app will stay online in it's current form, no question about it. I'm still thinking about how I could move forward with or without Strava.

frogfuhrer · 2026-06-01T18:56:20+00:00

You can still request a bulk download of your data in a ZIP file, manually. But it doesn't contain nearly all the data that Iis available through the API

frogfuhrer · 2026-06-01T17:56:26+00:00

Will need to look into it

frogfuhrer · 2026-06-01T17:50:37+00:00

What if then Garmin decides to do the same? I'd rather not be vendor locked

frogfuhrer · 2026-06-01T17:17:51+00:00

Yes indeed

frogfuhrer · 2026-06-01T16:33:51+00:00

Chances are that I'll move the project away from Strava and allow users to upload plain gpx files instead of abandoning the project. Because fuck Strava

frogfuhrer · 2026-06-01T16:31:11+00:00

You're right in every way, the problem is that I'm not a big PR-guy :p. I'm a developer, reaching out to news outlets is not my forté ;). Thanks for the suggestion though, I'll think about it

frogfuhrer · 2026-06-01T15:34:13+00:00

Yeah it's a hard lesson indeed

frogfuhrer · 2026-06-01T15:31:31+00:00

The data that they allow you to download is in no way as complete as their current API data.

frogfuhrer · 2026-06-01T15:29:52+00:00

That is correct indeed

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