Velodex

Velodex is a build-first fixed gear platform for documenting bikes, parts, riders, and clubs.

The idea is simple: give fixed gear riders a cleaner place to save and browse real builds. Instead of an algorithm feed or a generic cycling social network, Velodex is centered around structured bike specs, photos, component lists, profiles, likes, and lightweight club activity.

It is still very much in progress. I have the live site up at velodex.net, but I am still ironing out product details, cleanup work, contributor setup, and a few rough edges before opening the repository publicly. The plan is to make Velodex open-source soon once the project is in a shape I am comfortable handing to other people.

What It Does

Velodex currently supports:

• public build discovery with search and filters
• rider garages and profile pages
• structured frame and component details
• bike photo uploads
• likes and related-build discovery
• clubs, member management, and lightweight club posts

The stack is a single Next.js App Router application with TypeScript, Clerk authentication, Supabase Postgres, Drizzle ORM, Supabase Storage, and Playwright smoke tests.

Early Launch

One of the coolest signals so far was how quickly people found it. Within the first 24 hours after publishing the site, Velodex had users from more than 8 cities worldwide. That was enough validation to make the project feel worth polishing properly instead of leaving it as a private side experiment.

Next

Right now I am focusing on the boring but important work: tightening the UI, cleaning up the repo, improving smoke coverage, checking for anything that should not be public, and documenting a local setup path for future contributors.

Once that is done, I want Velodex to become an open-source home for fixed gear build documentation.