Comment on Dawarich 1.15.3 Update - your favorite Google Timeline alternative (stickers included)
Havatra@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
You probably have been asked this many times already, but I’ll ask anyways, in case the answer has changed/mutated: When you look at other similar projects like TREK, GeoPulse, and Reitti (Reitti dev make appearances here on the fediverse also), what makes you feel like your projects stands out with? And are there specific things that you’d want to adapt from others’ solutions?
Sidenote: I didn’t realize there were so many alternatives…!
Keep up the good work anyhow! Competition is good, and it’s cool to see the progress in these update posts!
frey@lemmy.world 1 week ago
TREK serves different purpose than Dawarich, it’s a trip planning app, while Dawarich is a private location history app.
As for GeoPulse and Reitti, I’d say it’d be more fair to ask their devs how they are different from Dawarich, because both of them were created after I built Dawarich and heavily inspired by it (at least that’s what Daniel, author of Reitti said). It’s safe to say they offer a slightly different solution to the same problem, UI-, business-logic- or features-wise, in different proportions. As far as I understand, they are still being inspired by some Dawarich features, and it’s completely fine.
As for specific things to adapt from them, recently both of them released an integration with Panoramax, which I find interesting and considered about a year ago. I eventually decided against it due to the fact Panoramax has a very uneven coverage for the planet (which is understandable, it’s a crowd-sourced project), and I’d prefer for every Dawarich feature to have full planet coverage. I’m still thinking about Panoramax though and it’s possible I’ll also build an integration with it.
You can also check out these pages, although it’s possible they are a bit stale. dawarich.app/docs/comparisons/vs-reitti/ dawarich.app/docs/comparisons/vs-geopulse/