RaceClocker News #16
Easy manual sports timing
👋 Hello and welcome to our intermittently appearing newsletter with news, events, updates and other information about our race timing app. #happytiming
Hello 2024 🚀 - What we have in store
Happy new year! We wish you many fun and successful events to organize in 2024. For us the new year is a new opportunity to make further progress on our ambition to become the best manual timing solution race managers could wish for. Here’s what’s on our high level roadmap for the year:
We are biting the bullet and will move our platform to AWS. Our growth and new infrastructure needs have come to a point that moving to a robust and reliable service environment makes sense.
We’re getting serious about integrations. Importing race information and start lists from and exporting results to your favorite registration services is one of our bigger investments in the new year.
We already support robust offline timing, but this year we will make offline even more reliable with instant on-device storage of timing data.
Lastly we plan to vastly improve our lap timer and provide the same level of intuitiveness and ease-of-use that you’ll find in other timekeeping modes.
Bye bye 2023 👋
2023 was good. We saw again steady growth in our key tracking numbers. We welcomed about 2k new race managers and directors, coaches or event organizers to our platform. We now count about 30k+ events in our history. Most of these are kept private, only some organizers choose to share results publicly. For public events, we served a record 750k result pages.
Start List editor new features
Last week we have released a range of new features with the aim to make start list management a lot easier and faster. Here’s what’s new:
Autofill bib numbers
From any row in your start list you can now autofill the list of bib or bow numbers downward. It increments the number for each row in your list. In case you need a gap in numbering - just enter a new number where the gap should start and then auto number downward again. The feature is available via an inline menu that appears next to a bib number when editing.
Add anywhere in start list
The blue input row that adds a new race participant to your start list can now be inserted anywhere in the list - rather than it being fixed at the bottom. You can either drag/drop the input row up or down, or you may move it to anywhere in the list via a menu that appears on the right hand side of each row when hovering.
This participant’s menu will over time include more options to further strengthen the start list editor (info headers in the list will follow soon).
Grouping start list by category
The start list can now be grouped by category. This works similar to how grouping works in wave starts. Any participant can be moved between categories, or entire categories can be dragged up and down to set the start order by category.
Categories can be collapsed and expanded to keep overview. New categories can be added to the bottom of the list. When the list is not in 'Group by Category' mode, categories can be managed as before via the 'edit categories' entry point in the category picker.
When the startlist is grouped this way, the timekeeper app will include the same group headers in the timer button list. Each of these can also here get collapsed and expanded, providing more focus to the timekeeping task.
Including Age and Gender
Lastly we expanded the start list with additional meta data fields. Age and gender are now options to include in the list. When gender is set, this also offers an additional grouping view in the results. Next to grouping by wave or by category - results can now also be grouped by gender.
Pricing update
RaceClocker pricing has not changed since we introduced our current pricing tiers including the Free, Essentials and Premium levels back in 2017. As we’ve vastly increased the platform capabilities as well the quality of service we’re now adjusting our pricing starting January ‘24. The new price points are depending on currency zone and can be reviewed on our pricing page.
#happytiming #raceclocker
Awesome product! Thank you so much! We would really love to have the option to see the current race time (instead of the global clock) for at least mass start races. If you can show splits for individual racers that would be incredible. Thanks!