Rate Limit Increase Request – MADDAness

Hi Strava Developer Support Team,

I would like to request an API rate limit increase for our non-profit community cycling application MADDAness.

Application Details:

• App Name: MADDAness
• Client ID: 202176
• Website: https://www.maddaness.com

About MADDAness: MADDAness is a grassroots, non-competitive endurance cycling challenge based in Piedmont (Turin, Italy). Cyclists track their historical attempts, certify official edition routes (GPX track matching), and count their cumulative climbs to the Maddalena hill ("Madda Counter").

Why we need an increase: As our participant community grows, multiple riders sync their Strava activities around official event dates. Calculating cumulative climbs and matching route tracks requires fetching historical activity lists, which currently exhausts our daily quota of 3,000 requests very quickly.

Optimization already implemented: We have designed our backend to be conservative with Strava API calls:

• Incremental synchronization only: once activities are analyzed, results are cached in our database and never refetched.
• Synchronization is triggered only on explicit user request.
• Direct links back to Strava profiles and activities are clearly displayed throughout the site in compliance with the Strava Brand Guidelines.

Requested Limits:

• 15-minute limit: 1,000 requests
• Daily limit: 30,000 requests

Thank you for your support of community cycling initiatives!

Best regards,
Pietro
MADDAness