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title: "How BigBinary Built RaceHero"
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  "Discover how BigBinary built RaceHero, a platform to track, analyze, and
  share your racing data across any device."
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# How BigBinary Built RaceHero

Discover how BigBinary built RaceHero, a platform to track, analyze, and share
your racing data across any device.

## Project

Track, Analyze, Share your racing on any device

Client: RaceHero

Role: Web & Mobile development

Year: Nov 2014 - Present

## About the project

RaceHero brings everything about racing to your pocket in a fun and social way.
Whether it is race schedules, live timing, tracking or analyzing the data, it
all can be done in RaceHero.

## Engagement with BigBinary

When RaceHero approached BigBinary to build the mobile application, they already
had the MVP of their web application up and running. They wanted the mobile
application to be up and running quickly. Most importantly, after the mobile
application was live, they wanted an easy way to update the product without
continually pushing updates to the app store. Since the RaceHero web application
was built with responsive design, the application looked great on a mobile
browser. The task for BigBinary was to reuse and update the already built HTML
pages so that every change in the page did not require a similar change in the
mobile app.

## Features

### Live Races

RaceHero covers live races. It displays and updates racers position in
real-time. Deep dive into the completed laps data with just a few clicks. Track
and find more about the racers by tapping on their profile information.

### Visualize The Race

RaceHero generates charts for each race which helps explain what actually
happened in the race. Lap time and position charts help in looking beyond simple
finishing position and show how each racer attacks and defends to earn their
finishing position.

### Results and Schedule

In addition to the live races, users can look into statistics of already
finished races. The app shows lap-wise performance of each racer and key stats
like best lap timing, time taken compared to the winner, positions gained. The
app uses trophy icons to show additional analytics like Hard Charger, Fast
Rabbit, Flag to Flag Victory etc. Users can share these results on social media
very easily. Schedule helps users keep track of upcoming races, participants and
their past performances.

## Testimonial

When looking for Rails and React developers, we discovered BigBinary from their
open source contributions to Rails. They have delivered consistently strong work
for the past 2 years, and we consider them part of our team.

Brian Ghidinelli

## Links

- [Human page](https://www.bigbinary.com/clients/case-studies/racehero)