Hi Strava developers,
I've built a small private web app for myself and a few friends — three of us currently but possibility of it being five of us in total — training together for the Great South Run on 18 October 2026. The app pulls our run telemetry from Strava (activity:read_all scope) so we can share a leaderboard, track each other's training, and run a small team campaign over the 25-week build-up.
I'm hitting the default 1-athlete limit on my application — I've connected, but my squad-mates get the "limit of connected athletes exceeded" error when they try to authorise.
Could I please request an increase to 5 connected athletes?
Quick context for the request:
- App name: GSR Showdown
- Client ID: 229579
- Use case: read-only consumption of our own activities (filtered to Run / TrailRun / VirtualRun) plus per-second streams for HIIT sprint detection
- Volume: 5–7 activities/week per user → roughly 20 stream calls/week and well within current rate limits
- Scope: purely personal project, no plans to publish, no commercial intent, no third-party users beyond the three to five of us
- Athletes: will only ever be myself + two named friends
I emailed developers@strava.com on 23/04/26 but haven't heard back yet — figured the forum might be watched more reliably.
Happy to share screenshots / a demo URL if it helps the review. Thanks for the time.
Cheers, Martin Shirley (Strava: martinjs24)
