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End of development

We have ceased the development for one simple reason: the project is no longer relevant for our lives. It's always been about coding/designing for fun, coming up with ideas inspired with action sports and lifestyle, making those crazy and often useless ideas alive for some buddies to enjoy. It's been great fun and experience and the process was well worth the time. But everything eventually comes to an end. The iPhone app unfortunately didn't make it to the public, even though it was nearly finished. New life responsibilities and projects have made it impossible to dedicate time to finish something we are no longer passionate about, and releasing unfinished product is not our style. Nevertheless uRide.it website is going to stay as it's used for searching frequently judging by the google data.

Farewell, uRide.it team

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We've recently obtained the Apple iOS developer license. For the app obviously.

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We've launched the Tycoon game. Buy & sell spots, videos and gear on virtual stock, earn real money.

It's in beta mode now, because we need to test a few things, but the winnings are real already, so don't hesitate to join.

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Buy & sell gear locally.

It is a good idea to buy gear from people locally as much as possible to save on shipping. We've noticed that there are no simple solutions for that made with action sports gear in mind, so we've created a new one for you.

1) Create a deal page for free: fill in the price, size and upload pictures of current condition. Mark on map where it can be picked from:

Full address will not be displayed to keep privacy:

2) Share your new deal in social networks or with an automatically generated picture:

You also have a quick access to local deals on your homepage:

It's our first step to create more ways of obtaining gear easier and for less. Enjoy, buy and sell locally with us and more is going to come!

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Filters are easily removable with a click on "x".

Just a small touch while we work on another big feature that matters.

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"What's uride.it?"

A quick update with an active intro about what you can get from our service at the moment.

You can now choose your default sport and all things will be filtered where it's needed.

Invite your friends and let's grow!

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Search filters, grid view, things around you

We've improved our main existing tool - the search. In addition to a quick text search there is now an expanded ability to simply browse all things in various countries and for different tags and sports.

There is also now a "grid" view to make the search on mobile devices simpler.

On the homepage you may now find "spots around you" and "people around you" if you've set your default location in settings. We recommend to do that, because it's just quick and cool.

Don't worry, we will never use your location for anything other than your convenience.

We've reorganized our work since the beginning of 2012, set up a plan, so now things are going way faster and smarter.

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There were no updates for a while, we've been working on a side project and chilling a little bit. Now we're getting back into our main project, soon there will be some user-friendly updates. Feedback showed us that there are many things we've missed, so soon you'll see them! 

Sorry for being away for a long time.

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Lived in Jerusalem for almost half of the year, was so busy that didn't even feel the atmosphere of this City, now moving back to Tlv, hope soon will be in good working shape!

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Making the tree grow

We're using the opportunity of working while being at the same place and during the past week did a remarkable progress in terms of planning the updates and modifications of the service.

As a result, we've reviewed 2 lists with roughly 50 to-do items in each with ideas and reminders about needed improvements, discussed a lot of other stuff. It helped to get a clear vision of all the things we have to work on until the end of February 2012.

This process will be quite fun and hard at the same time because a lot of different things need attention and time investment. The current situation can be described with a tree: now that we've planted the tree, we can let it's branches grow and eventually the tree will give fruits.

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TLV

Me and Dima have recently met in Tel Aviv where Google Developer Day 2011 is going to take place soon. We work remotely from different countries using Skype and other ways of communication and team development to discuss things. 

Real-life communication definitely helps a lot at least once in a while. We discussed the future plans and small modifications that we need to make asap to improve usability. Main areas we discussed were: search, first time usage, mobile app, promotion. The winter months will most likely bring new things to learn and we'll have to get out of developer comfort zone to push other sides of the project. Sounds fun to me!

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Barcelona tour by uRide.it friends. August 2011.

This video was edited mainly by one of our good supporters - Arseniy. With some help from me (Anton). We've spent 3 nights digging footage, discussing, accurately editing and color correcting everything to make it smooth as we prefer things to be at uRide.

So check it out and you may find all spots at uride.it/​media/​uride-barcelona-tour-2011 showcasing the first stage of what we want a video page to look like.

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We're opened for public now. Anyone can join, log in with previously made account or just browse the content anonymously. Use, share things with others and support us if you want to.

We still have some small things to improve in the current layout and that will happen in future regular updates along with the new nice things being made (no year-long updates anymore).

Our next step will be the introducing of a different approach to what we want to do with this project. That's all for today.

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Working on the blading trick collection.

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"A bunch of friends including one of uride.it developers took a trip far from Moscow city to blade in a small park. However due to the rain they had to adapt and use the garage."

Edited by Scart youtube.com/​user/​vovascart

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Uses CSS3 to render the animation, falling back to VML for Internet Explorer (all the way back to IE6). 2.8K of total code and supported by newer versions of most browsers.

/via @jc

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