Roadmap

What’s being built for RowingBuddy, and the ideas after that. Once something ships, it moves to what’s new.

Being built

Under way now. No dates yet: each ships when it’s ready.

  • App for iPhone and iPad. Browsers on iPhone and iPad can’t connect to a rower, so RowingBuddy is coming as an app.
  • Venice at night. Down the Grand Canal on a warm summer night: lit palazzi, the Rialto and Accademia bridges, the Salute, and out into St Mark’s basin.
  • River to the Sea. One long journey downriver in five stages: a mountain stream, a valley village, an old town and the harbour, out to the open sea.
  • The Workshop. Short games where your strokes build something, and how well you row shows in what you make. First up: Tower, where steady power builds a straight, tall tower.

Ideas we’re exploring

Not promises: things we’d like to build. Tell us which you’d use most.

  • Crew mode. Set the rhythm as stroke seat of an eight, while a cox calls power tens and rate changes.
  • Regatta day. Heats, a semi and a final in one session, seeded by your own times.
  • Tokyo by night. The Sumida River after dark, with cherry blossom, lanterns, neon and the Skytree.
  • More rowers. More FTMS rowers tested on real machines.
  • Reasons to come back. Daily challenges, personal-best medals, and racing your friends’ ghosts.

Something you’d like to see? Write to hello@mail.rowingbuddy.com, or use Feedback in the game.