WanderPins — Product & Roadmap
The map of where WanderPins is today, where it's going, and where everything is documented. Each release links to a one-pager with scope and open questions.
What WanderPins is
A private travel journal you share with the people you trust. Users pin places they've been — photos, notes, ratings — and share selectively with trusted networks. Not a public review platform. Not a social network. Not a directory.
The core audience is overlanders and off-grid travelers who need recommendations they can actually trust. Public platforms (Yelp, Google, Campendium) are noisy, bot-infested, and decay over time. WanderPins keeps the good recommendations in private hands — the people who already trust each other.
Two defensible positions:
- Trust graph, not algorithm. You see pins from people you know, not strangers.
- Can't sell what we can't read. Architecture designed so WanderPins literally cannot monetize user content. Structural, not a policy promise.
Where we are today
Running in production at v1.11.1 on iOS + Android. Supabase backend. Mapbox map. Phone/OTP auth.
Foundation shipped
- Pin creation — photos, notes, ratings, categories, PostGIS coordinates
- Map view with client-side clustering
- Follow requests (trust-based social graph)
- Comments, likes, private/public toggle
- Scout Pins — user's saved "want to check out" list
- Unverified Pins — external cold-start data layer
- Profile + rigs (user vehicle info)
Road to 2.0
Nine releases sequenced toward a 2.0 launch by Summer 2026. Single-threaded through Jeff; Brad advisory, burst-mode available. Click any release to open its full one-pager spec.
| # | Release | Size | Deploy | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scout Pins | Medium | MIG · EDGE · OTA | In Progress |
| — | Web Refresh & Deep Links | Small | WEB · FULL | Parallel |
| 2 | Pin Upgrades | Large | MIG · OTA | Up Next |
| 3 | Offline Mode & Export | Medium | OTA · FULL? | Queued |
| 4 | DB Refactor | Medium | MIG · EDGE | Queued |
| 5 | WanderPins Pro | Medium | FULL · OTA · MIG · EDGE | Queued |
| 6 | Strava / AllTrails | Small | MIG · OTA | Queued |
| 7a | Check-ins & Tags | Large | OTA · EDGE | Queued |
| 7b | Grouped Pins | Medium | OTA · EDGE | Queued |
| 8 | Trips Beta | Medium | MIG · OTA | Queued |
| 9 | 2.0 Onboarding | Medium | OTA · FULL? | Queued |
Hard dependencies
DB Refactor (R4) ──→ Check-ins & Tags (R7a) ──→ Grouped Pins (R7b)
requires pin_visits + linked_pin_id
Scout Pins (R1) ──→ Pin Upgrades (R2)
Scout conversion flow needs Scout data
R1 + R2 ──→ WanderPins Pro (R5)
Pro ships into a more mature appBundle candidates
- Offline Mode (R3) + Pin Upgrades (R2) — bundle if R3 stays small (cached pins only, no tile packs).
- Web Refresh — can ship alongside any release.
Post-2.0 backlog
Scoped but not scheduled. Prioritized after 2.0 launch based on user signal.
| Feature | Lane | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| WP Bundles | Growth | Curated shareable pin collections |
| Scout Pin Gamification | Discovery | Rewards for verifying, reviewing, contributing |
| Activity Feed | Social | Full feed screen replaces notifications tab |
| Encrypted Content | Privacy | Client-side encryption; Privacy Phase 3 |
| Trips Complete | Trips / Growth | Route views, timeline, cover photos, Next.js web sharing |
| Full Web App | Growth | Account creation, following, map — not just share pages |
| Local-Only Pins | Privacy | Never leave device; encrypted cloud backup. Phase 4 |
| Conversational WP | Core / Discovery | "Where should I camp near Bend?" — AI chat for search and recs |
| Batch Import | Core Pin | Multi-select photos, EXIF extraction, draft review |
| Map Augmentation Pins new | Discovery / AI | Click anywhere on map, AI analyzes satellite + topo + land-use data, generates a personal Scout Pin. No direct competitor. |
| WanderPins MCP new | AI / Integration | Chat with your WanderPins data via Claude / ChatGPT / other AI chatbots |