Fondo.cc app, another zwift competitor?

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Anyone heard about this new indoor training app https://www.fondo.cc/ ? Seems interesting but also super early stage to say the least.

I know nothing about it, just saw it mentioned on Reddit

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With the closing of RGT they’ve posted in various places, but as of yet it doesn’t really exist so not too much to talk about.

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Just signed up for the early access/public beta/etc. No indication of timing or anything, so we’ll see what happens.

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Yes - seems very early days. Interesting that it apparently is going for a more realistic visual look than Zwift (or RGT)

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Interesting; thanks for sharing. The uncanny-valleyness of Zwift is a big turnoff for me, but this looks cool.

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Some great visuals obviously, but 2 quick points….

  • visuals aren’t enough of a differentiator, IMO. You need to have a compelling reason to leave Zwift, which has ~10k users at any given time. Don’t really care how pretty the graphics are if I am just riding by myself.

  • I get that they are going for “realism”, but why are they wasting their time and graphic capacity putting potholes and cracks in the road? Just a waste of resources and distracting, based on the teaser video.

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They appear to be using the Unreal engine, from a visual point of view is likely to be better than anything we have seen so far.

Unfortunately it’s going to take a monumental effort to gain significant subscribers to lure people away from Zwift (and all of he other apps out there)

I saw a video for ‘another’ new app the other day called indie velo, but they seem to focusing on the data with a view to becoming a ‘service’ that other platforms can use to validate performances etc.

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Unlike Fondo, indieVelo actually exists and you can use it.