What is Bike-Ly?

History

When I bought my first mountain bike, I quickly felt the need to track some data about my bike. At the very beginning, I used Excel spreadsheets to record all kinds of data about the bike, components, contracts (my first bike was a leased bike), and settings. At some point, though, that got 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 currently see Bike-Ly more as a platform for all data related to the bike and the hobby.

Bike-Ly is actively being developed and is 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 stuff for over 15 years. Bike-Ly is my new project, so if you’re interested, you can learn about the Bike-Ly stack here (for all non-IT folks: this is where the boring tech babble begins — feel free to skip ahead to Installation)

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