I started road cycling at the beginning of 2026 and quickly became consistent — until autumn arrived in Santiago. Bad weather made it harder to ride regularly, so I bought a smart trainer to keep training indoors.
No trial, no card, no countdown. Riding is free and stays free.
The available options did not quite give me what I wanted. I was not looking for another subscription-based virtual world. I wanted to ride the real routes I already knew, import rides I had saved, compare my indoor and outdoor performance, and avoid losing the fitness I had worked to build.
GlobeDash began as the indoor cycling tool I wanted for myself. Every road in the world is already mapped — the gradients are known, the surfaces are measured. So it rides the actual planet: pick a road anywhere and your trainer gives you its real gradient, metre by metre.
I am not trying to build another virtual cycling world. Other platforms already do that well.
GlobeDash is about connecting indoor training with the real world: real roads, real goals, real coaches and real cycling communities. The aim is not to make you forget that you are indoors. It is to help you arrive better prepared for what you want to do outdoors — a demanding climb, a race, or simply losing the fear that you will not be able to keep up on your next social ride.
I also do not want riders to feel trapped inside the platform. Your training belongs to you, which is why exporting your ride data matters here.
I ride both road and mountain bikes, usually three or four days a week, mostly around Santiago, though I also enjoy gravel roads and trails outside the city. My favourite local route at the moment is the climb to Farellones — long, demanding and surrounded by mountain scenery, the kind of road that makes the effort worthwhile.
I am preparing for my first race in October 2026, and considering bringing triathlon into my life. I am still learning and improving as a cyclist, which matters to how I build this: I have the same doubts, the same goals and the same difficult sessions as the people I am building it for. GlobeDash will be my own training tool as I prepare for that race, and I intend to share what I learn from using it.
Away from the bike I am an industrial engineer with a master's in financial engineering. I worked in financial services, then moved into IT operations and business development in tech, and today my full-time job is in industrial IoT for mining here in Chile. GlobeDash is a side project — one I intend to grow into an outstanding product, and hopefully one day into the job itself. It is built and run by me, with an assist from Claude for the code.
Cycling is becoming increasingly expensive. After a bike, a trainer, sensors, equipment and everything else, riders are often asked to add another monthly subscription just to train.
I want GlobeDash to return a little control to people who want to get fitter without every useful feature becoming another paywall. Keeping the core riding experience accessible also makes the community easier to build — the kind that connects indoor and outdoor riders, clubs and coaches.
Professional coaching tools may eventually help support the platform. Ordinary riders and clubs should be able to take part without being pushed out by cost.
My goal is for GlobeDash to become a bridge between indoor training and real-world cycling communities. That could mean finding a local group with riders at your level, connecting with a coach in another country, preparing for a difficult club ride, or meeting people to ride with when visiting a new city.
I want riders to build their own workouts, follow sessions prescribed by real coaches, and work toward challenges that matter outside the app. In two years I would like GlobeDash to be something riders, coaches and clubs genuinely rely on — not because it replaces the cycling community, but because it helps that community connect and train together.
GlobeDash is still being shaped by real use, so bug reports, difficult trainer setups and honest suggestions are genuinely valuable.
Write to [email protected]. I read it myself, and details like which trainer and which browser you were using help more than anything else. A Discord community is planned too, where riders, coaches and clubs can trade ideas and influence what gets built next.