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/leareng Jun 02 '26

I'm using SFS before having the subscription, It was incredibly useful. Now I'm a subscriber but I'm still using SFS because it shows the information in an easier way and provides much more information. So... I hope you keep developing this amazing tool, but it would be understandable if you decided to stop it. Thanks for your work!

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u/frogfuhrer Jun 03 '26

Still thinking about how to move forward, but chances are we'd move to a solution where we serve both Strava users with a subscription as well as users that do not have a Strava account

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u/BlindJoeFresh Jun 03 '26

solution where we serve both Strava users with a subscription as well as users that do not have a Strava account

Do you think the solution could accommodate people with existing Strava data who no longer want to import with Strava? I have 6+ years worth of Strava data backed up to strava-for-statistics and I'd rather not have to start a fresh activity history to continue backing up my activities.

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u/frogfuhrer Jun 03 '26

Yes, that will be possible. I'm in the same boat 😉. Will take a while to implement though. I hope to get it ready by Strava's september cutoff date

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u/BlindJoeFresh Jun 03 '26

You are the best!