Photo by Mad Rabbit Tattoo on Unsplash Tile hunting was made for bikes How much would you pay for a medicine that cut your risk of dying early almost in half? A hundred euros a month, maybe a thousand? You can have it for free, and you take it by walking. We’ll get to the …
Collecting tiles, like any kind of exercise, is always best done with friends. We recently introduced friends-feature to Wandrio, and now we’re taking it a step further with teams. TADAA! Gather your own crew or bring your existing sports club to Wandrio and start collecting tiles together. Each team gets a shared tile map, which …
Somewhere deep into the Eiger 250, my legs had stopped being legs, I couldn’t keep any energy in me. Grindelwald was still more than a day away, and I wasn’t thinking about the finish at all. I was thinking about one thing: the next checkpoint and the possibility to get some sleep. That’s the whole …
Thinking about giving Wandrio a try? Sit with it a moment longer, because it might change your life. Mine it changed for the better, but it brought some downsides too. Here’s an honest list of 11 things Wandrio has changed for the worse. Put simply, the world doesn’t look the same through the eyes of …
Tile hunting is simple: go outside, explore the world, and collect the map tiles you visit. It is a hobby that we love and has taken us into crazy and exciting adventures. It has made us see the world on a new way. You are about join us on this tile hunting craze. Welcome aboard! …
Wandrio has been making great progress, and our team has continued to grow. Our lead architect, Antti, has been joined by one of Finland’s top trail runners, Eevi Bengs, whose contribution has significantly accelerated the pace of development. This month, UX designer and orienteering enthusiast Oiva Kumpulainen also joins the Wandrio team full-time. For our …
Next weekend is Finland’s biggest mass-participation sports event, the Jukola Relay. Women’s teams of four (Venlas) and men’s teams of seven compete in orienteering, with the runners’ times combined for the team result. The event brings together around 20,000 participants and 30,000 spectators, from elite athletes to everyday hobbyist and first time orienteers. Two globally …
We have released the Seasons feature for tile hunting. We have now been developing Wandrio for about six months. Our goal is to make tile hunting a more accessible hobby and, through that, help grow the number of people participating in it. A lot of work has gone into making sure that data coming from …
I live in Finland, and especially in winter I sometimes find myself wondering why my ancestors ever chose to settle in this part of the world, where the weather is harsh and the sun can disappear for days. But then I catch myself wanting to go to new places and do things that I’ve never …
I have always lacked motivation for training. Thats why I have worked hard to create small hacks to motivate myself everyday. This blog post shows one area of self-motivation I have tried. Why I love geo-location games? A few years ago I went out for what I thought would be a short recovery ride. Nothing …
