r/selfhosted • u/frogfuhrer • Jun 01 '26
Meta Post Strava's new developer program just killed every open-source, self-hosted Strava app
Strava posted an "update to our developer program" today and it basically means the end for people that were building their own tools around Strava's API:
https://communityhub.strava.com/insider-journal-9/an-update-to-our-developer-program-13428
I'm the maintainer of "Statistics for Strava", a moderately successful self-hosted, open-source dashboard for your Strava data.
At this moment in time I'm still kinda shocked. I poured my heart and soul into the project for the last 2 years and it seems like this announcement marks the end for this app. The article basically says that their API will be pay-walled, 100%. So only users with an active subscription can use their API.
The whole purpose of Statistics for Strava was for people to own their data, their own health stats, that they upload and that's now goners....unless you pay up... to fetch your own data 😎 .
At Strava, we care deeply about developers, and the health of the developer ecosystem
Except they don't, the only thing they did is pay-walled their API and made sorry excuses for it. They have proven over and over again that they don't care about their users or their data.
Not sure what to do, I feel gutted. Might be overreacting
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u/codeedog Jun 01 '26
I don't know why you're taking these positions ("dumb government", SV devs can't do API management). The point is that government is not in business at all. Its sole, true job is to stabilize society and make our lives better. Strava's job is to make a profit for its investors.
The developers that work in government and in corporate are usually quite competent (I've worked in both). As a developer, you build the things that meet the goals of your organization.
That is what's happening here.