Firstly, another huge thanks for an awesome project/service. Brilliant! Your customer support is truly amazing. Chapeau.
Intervals has quickly become my main site for planning my training and looking up my historical training data.
It seems like a 1 man project. My question is around long term viability. What happens if you are unable to work on the project for a temporary period, or indefinitely, for whatever reason? Of course, I hope this never happens, but you know, life does what it wants sometimes.
Tx. I understand your concern. I am working towards making this a “not just me” business and employing others and so on.
Right now my wife (Antoinette) has done some dev work on Intervals.icu and does all the accounting, FB adverts and so on. A friend of mine (also a developer, runs a startup) has the people and skills to continue with this in the event of my untimely demise. There is a Google doc with all the server details and so on. So there is a continuity plan.
In line with the work of a guy who not long ago was imprisoned on an island a little north of your home, and in the home country of a film with a fitting name, You have shown David, what the power of one can mean.
Many times many, does not amount to much, where work and will carries it all.
All thanks to your partner keeping it all running, and an understanding nod to David Ward not wanting to see it all perish like most in our world, and at least not as quick as most in this digital world of sport calculations.
Growth and security is not everything.
I’ll just continue to enjoy the moment and my use of Intervals.icu.
Whoa! I didn’t mean that. I, of course, hope that never happens.
My motivation for the question was due to considering switching from Garmin Connect as my “source of truth” for my training history to Intervals.icu (may affect a smart watch purchase). I’ve seen many a great project disappear when the single dev moves on to something else.
Well you can use the Dropbox upload support to keep a copy of every activity file hitting Intervals.icu. And you can download the wellness csv every now and then for a backup of that with CTL, ATL etc I am plotting to work on Intervals.icu full-time.
Not at the moment thanks. I am still working on Intervals.icu as a side project (evenings, weekends, early in the morning etc.) which makes that tricky. I should be full time on Intervals.icu towards the end of the year. Then things can really progress.
@david Well, I think it’s incredible what you’ve achieved here as a largely one-man band. What you’ve built is so much better than much more well-known and expensive competition in all most every aspect. It just does what we want it to do in a beautifully organised way.
Whether some of that’s down to scale and server costs, I don’t know. But I’m loving it while it lasts!
I am plotting to work on Intervals.icu full-time.