Welcome Heena and Ben!

We have two development interns who joined us this summer, Heena Surve and Ben Faria. We have had great success with our intern program in the past, with over a half dozen people learning and growing their technical skills at RunSignup in our advanced…

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Phased Releases

As part of our coming support for easier and more powerful Multi-Race bundles, we are in the process of refactoring (re-writing) a lot of our core registration code. We will begin releasing some of that this coming week, and June should see…

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May Brings New Usage Records for RaceJoy!

Part One! Record Usage over One Race Weekend and One Race We are seeing record RaceJoy usage on multiple fronts in this popular running month of May! This is a three part series demonstrating the full adoption of RaceJoy’s innovative race day…

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UX Manifesto – Year One Report

One year ago, we made this pledge: Our Commitment: RunSignup will not only have the most feature rich race management platform, we will also have the leading user experience for participants, race directors, race management companies and timers by the end of…

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WICLAX Timing Software Integrates with RunSignUp

WICLAX is timing and scoring software popular in Europe. We met them at the RFID conference, and they are expanding into the US and wanted to integrate with RunSignup. We pointed them to the RunSignUp Open API documentation in February, and they have it all working in…

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RaceTrends: When Should I Close Registration?

Answer: You should never close registration. Registration Timeline by Race Distance Our 2017 look at when runners register showed a familiar curve to that of 2016: an early spike leading to a drop and a plateau, followed by another sharp climb. There is some…

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Lots of Little Things II (actually 54)

We are always pushing out new software (over 1,500 times last year!). It may seem like we write a lot of blog posts, but we could do a whole bunch more. We wrote earlier about how we do lots of little things, and…

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Annual Jeff Bezos Amazon Letter – High Expectations

Jeff Bezos Annual Amazon_Letter is out. We have written about it in 2015, 2016 and 2017 since Amazon is a major role model for RunSignup, as well as the infrastructure that runs our business. As usual, he covers a bunch of amazing statistics. Like AWS Cloud Computing is…

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Privacy and Business Models

One of the very first concepts of RunSignup was that we were NOT in the advertising business. This led to the corollary decision that we did not own or co-own customer data. We made this decision for several reasons. First, we felt…

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