🗺️ Development Roadmap

Our Journey

Transparent development progress. See what we've built, what we're building, and what's next.

Phase 1

Foundation & Core Build

Q3 2025 – Q1 2026✅ Complete

✓Architecture design & documentation
✓Backend API (Node.js, Express, Prisma, PostgreSQL)
✓User authentication (JWT, refresh rotation)
✓Business CRUD & category management
✓Interactive map with business markers
✓Real-time mining engine with geofence verification
✓Wallet system with balance & transaction history
✓Anti-cheat system (GPS, device fingerprinting)
✓Discover/search business functionality
✓User profiles with edit capability
✓Stripe business subscription billing (3 tiers)
✓Rewards & offers system with redemption codes
✓Business Portal (Next.js) with dashboard
✓Mobile app (React Native / Expo)
✓Comprehensive test suite (44+ tests)

Phase 2

Beta Launch & Testing

Q1 – Q2 2026✅ Complete

✓Marketing website with full content
✓Blog with educational content (20+ articles)
✓Expanded FAQ (80+ questions)
✓VPS deployment with Docker & Nginx
✓Beta testing in pilot US city
✓First 50 business onboarding
✓Gift card integration (Tremendous)
✓Mobile app polish & onboarding flow
✓Push notifications system
✓App Store & Play Store submission

Phase 2.5

Lean v1 USA — California Pilot

Q2 2026✅ Complete

✓Manual gift card fulfillment — $5 Amazon, Walmart, Target + $50 Visa
✓1,000 GM Points = $1 unified across catalog
✓Email-driven admin queue (24-hour SLA)
✓3-tier user subscriptions: Free 1× / Plus $4.99 3× / Pro $9.99 5×
✓4-tier business plans: Free 0.5× / Bronze $7.99 / Silver $14.99 / Gold $29.99
✓Daily streak system: 1.05× / 1.15× / 1.3× / 1.5× ladder
✓First-of-day (+0.25×) + new-business (+0.2×) bonuses, capped at 10× total
✓Map fix: removed unmaintained clustering library
✓Promotional-credit framing for legal cleanliness

Phase 3

Launch — Hanford & Beyond

Q2 2026🚧 In Progress

○Hanford launch with 5 paying businesses
○Two-sided referral program (subscriber-only, 500 GM each side)
○Welcome email on subscription activation
○Pending-referral nudge banner for unsubscribed referees
○Play Store production rollout
○Anti-fraud guards (email verify, 7-day account age, $599/year cap)

Phase 4

Stabilize & Expand California

Q3 2026📋 Planned

○Weekly email digest (streak, gift card balance, nearby businesses)
○Automated gift card fulfillment (Tremendous, after LLC + EIN)
○More gift card SKUs ($10 / $25 / $100 tiers)
○Expansion to Fresno, Visalia, Tulare
○50+ participating businesses
○Anti-cheat ML trained on first 90 days of data
○Merchant analytics dashboard polish

Phase 5

International — Tanzania Pilot

2027📋 Planned

○M-Pesa airtime as the local equivalent of US gift cards
○Country detection on signup, region-aware reward catalog
○Tanzanian retail partner pilot (Dukas, Boda agents)
○Multi-language support (English, Swahili)
○Direct cash redemption where legally cleaner than US
○Expansion to other East African markets after pilot

Phase 6

Scale & Platform Maturity

2028+📋 Planned

○Multi-country reward catalog management
○Enterprise tier for chains & franchises
○Business API & SDK for custom integrations
○AR features & enhanced map experience
○ML-powered anti-cheat system