About

"I wanted to share club routes with members in a beautiful way"

I'm an IT Professional by day and cyclist when not in front of a computer. I've been riding with cycle clubs since 2009.

My club has a huge bank of routes - I live in area where there's some fantastic countryside and variety, with lots of destinations within reach on 2 wheels. Previously I'd been maintaining this in a spreadsheet, but this was a long boring list.

I wanted to share the club's routes with all the members in a beautiful way - with maps, routes, filtering tools and the tools required to upload GPX, KML or FIT files, manage routes, destinations and give highly customisable & granular controls.

Most online services have a subscription tier for meaningful functionality or just generate routes - I couldn't find anything where we could keep the club's routes in a platform where any member could access them. That's why I decided to build RouteFinder.

Vibe coding with AI, I decided to build a plugin for WordPress that can empower cycling, hiking, skiing, tri and walking clubs; Personal trainers can build a training programme with specific routes embedded in pages, or just allow visitors to search everything you've got.

Individual routes or the whole site can be password protected, with the ability to have specific, time expiring passwords without the need for a WordPress login.

Map support for most map tile providers - OpenStreetMap, ThunderForest, HERE, MapTiler and Google. You're in control of what's enabled.

"...empowering cycling, hiking, skiing, tri, walking clubs..."