Show HN: Are you a Climber? I made a site for you.

I'm mostly a gym rat, but there's an excellent bouldering spot nearby. I'm not too interested in top-roping or lead climbing...it gets too expensive too quickly.<p>I know this is off-topic, but I've contemplated this question for years. Why aren't there better technology services/products for outdoor sports in general? I've attempted a few "adventure sport" themed projects, but they never seem to take off. I think there's a paradox between my love for technology and my love for the outdoors. I enjoy both immensely, but they don't go very well together.<p>Best of luck! I would be interested in hearing some stats (daily reach, submission stats, etc.) when you have them available.

It's an community news site with some features borrowed from HN and StackOverflow. These are two sites I value for their high quality discussion, which I aim on bringing to the climbing community.<p>It runs on appengine and tornado: <a href="https://github.com/csytan/webnodes" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/csytan/webnodes</a>

What is it with hackers and climbing? The relation pops up regularly.<p>Hackers and martial arts I get somehow, been training myself somewhat. But for some odd reason climbing is a total black spot for me. Does not grok. Can someone briefly explain what's the hacker appeal in that?

It's an interesting idea for a site, and, as a climber myself, I love seeing more of the climbing community brought online.<p>My main criticism is the design. It leaves much to be desired, and as a result I can't seem myself using this much right now.<p>Some advice: This might be better announced on the communities over at rockclimbing.com, climbing.com, 8a.nu, and the various climbing rags (dpm, rock&#38;ice, urban climber). Have you announced thrutched.com on those forums?<p>It's good for a first iteration. I'm interested to see how you improve the design. I really like the idea of a climbing video aggregation site.<p>What I think would be both cool and a useful addition to the climbing community would be a replacement for 8a.nu that wouldn't look outdated in 1996 and allowed to you keep track of training as well as tick lists. Kind of a combination of crossfit's beyondthewhiteboard.com and 8a.nu.<p>On a a side note: I've seen climbing mentioned by a few others on HN. How many people here climb? I'm based in NYC right now, so I &#60;3 the Gunks, and sometimes NH.

Cool site, it would be nice to have a Google Map for each climb.<p>Also on <a href="http://www.lakesbloc.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.lakesbloc.com</a> (a site which focusses on Bouldering in the Lake District) they have guides showing various routes and their difficulty, something which would be really handy to have!

I assume you are familiar with videoclimb.com ?<p>So here is my take: There are already many climbing 'community' sites; everything from internationally to locally scoped. These sites feature discussion of all kinds from gear, safety, routes, videos, etc. Thrutched seems to be attempting to capture the niche of climbing videos. But here is my question: How can you talk about the videos w/o entering into discussions of other topics (safety, routes, etc)? I think you immediately enter a situation where, despite choosing a niche, you are judged against all the other larger, more established sites; and come out as lacking.<p>It seems like you need to rapidly build an active, dense seed community if Thrutched is to take-off and endure. But I dont know how you would go about doing that.

Great stuff. Lots of people have commented on why more outdoor sites haven't taken off. I'd point you all to www.mountainproject.com

I have a couple of climbing friends, link sent.

I would love to subscribe to RSS feed but there aren't any :(

large size of fonts are affecting how much you can see in a page with a single glance. I would keep them smaller.

Good stuff, thanks!