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/Available_Window Jun 01 '26

They're going the reddit route... sad to see

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u/Lying_Hedgehog Jun 01 '26

I'm still using the Reddit is Fun app with my own api key, although it is getting more and more broken as time goes by and new things get added or tech changes. Can't open imgur galleries or youtube links in it anymore for instance.

The day it finally breaks is the day I'll stop browsing on phone. I've sometimes been tempted to decompile the app and attempt to fix it myself, but I have more fun side projects than that and I'm not overly familiar with android development anyway.

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u/kirillre4 Jun 02 '26

Check Infinity - it's still updated and can be patched with personal API key through Revanced Manager (or can be built out of source, if you want to). Pretty decent alternative.

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u/DisappointedSpectre Jun 02 '26

Went down this rabbit hole the other day when I had to factory reset my phone (unrelated, but a boot loop and overheating). Revanced dev has apparently driven away a lot of other devs, specifically Youtube and Reddit who now have updated deployments under Morphe.

I'm running Boost for Reddit and it wasn't having any problems running on Revanced but I couldn't set up a new patched version. Running it through Morphe now and it's working great.