2025 Roadmap |
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| Q1 2025 | Q2 2025 | Q3 2025 | Q4 2025 | Q1 2026 | |
| Key Milestone | ✅ Notifications Galore | ||||
✅ COUCHERS v1 LAUNCH  |
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| Merchandise Mania | |||||
| Blog It Like You Mean It | |||||
| App Ahoy | |||||
| New Features | ✅ Push Notifications | ||||
| ✅ Add Members Tab to Communities | |||||
| ✅ Badges | |||||
| ✅ Notifications Feed | |||||
| ✅ Pending Host Request Notification | |||||
| ✅ Strong Verification | |||||
| ✅ Phone Number Verification | |||||
| ✅ Activeness Probes | |||||
| ✅ Donations Portal | |||||
| ✅ Display Username on Profile | |||||
| ✅ Language Picker | |||||
| Host Address Verification | |||||
| ✅ Feedback Option: "Did Not Stay" | |||||
| ✅ Block / Unblock Members | |||||
| Event Co-organizers | |||||
| ✅ Remove Friend | |||||
| Merchandise Store | |||||
| ✅ Event Reminder | |||||
| Add more Pages to Weblate for Translation | |||||
| Boost New Users in Search | |||||
| Integrate Blog in Dashboard | |||||
| Prepare Android and Apple Apps | |||||
| Publish Beta-Apps | |||||
| Updates | ✅ Granular Notification Settings | ||||
| ✅ Pretty Notification Emails | |||||
| ✅ Translate Couchers.org to Chinese (Simplified), German & Portuguese (Brazil) | |||||
| ✅ New Chat Bubble Design in Messages | |||||
| ✔️ Tech Debt Upgrades | |||||
| ✅ Rebuild Desktop Map Search | |||||
| ✅ Roadmap Revamp | |||||
| ✅ Blog Revamp | |||||
| ✅ Event Time Picker | |||||
| ✅ Reference System Update | |||||
| ✅ Mobile Map Search | |||||
| ✅ Update Community Page | |||||
| ✔️ Bug Hunt (find and fix bugs) | |||||
| ✔️ Improve Language Selector | |||||
| Improve Sign-up flow | |||||
| Translate Couchers to French and Portuguese (Portugal) | |||||
| Update Blog Design | |||||
| Operations | ✅ Re-engage Previous Volunteers Through Newsletter | ||||
| ✅ Set-up Zulip for Community Builders | |||||
| ✔️ Attract New Volunteers | |||||
| ✔️ Grow Community to 100k Members | |||||
| ✅ Rebranding to Own Identity | |||||
| ✅ Regular Posts on Social Media Accounts | |||||
| ✔️ Design and Produce Merchandise | |||||
| Welcome Text to New Members from Community Builders | |||||
| Offer Merchandise | |||||
| Improve Automated Emails | |||||
| Create New Page Explaining Couch Surfing | |||||
| Engage Community to write Blog Posts | |||||
| Create New Moderation Dashboard for Mods | |||||
| Create New Page Comparing Couchers | |||||
✅Completed ✔️Partially completed
About the Roadmap
Our roadmap is designed around Milestones with quarterly goals in mind, setting realistic timeframes for meaningful progress. However, some tasks may extend into subsequent quarters as needed. To stay adaptable, priorities can shift, items may be postponed indefinitely, and new tasks might be introduced as opportunities arise. This flexibility ensures that we remain focused on delivering value, all while acknowledging that Couchers is powered entirely by the dedication of passionate volunteers working in their free time.
Milestones
We currently build around a quarter-based system of strategic Milestones. We divide the year into calendar quarters, Q1 (Jan to Mar) to Q4 (Oct to Dec) and choose a strategy and development focus that we call a Milestone for each quarter. This helps the various teams at Couchers to rally behind a common goal and have clarity on what they should be working on together. Each strategic milestone is brainstormed and chosen by the Board of Directors along with the core volunteer team using input from the community.
Github Project Boards
Explore the latest updates and detailed information on our ongoing projects by visiting our project board views for Development and Operations on Github which we update regularly. Note that some of the information there may be highly technical in nature and not be accessible to all audiences; and dates or timelines listed there are by no means guaranteed and are only an indication.
Do you have ideas or suggestions
Please let us know at support@couchers.org - we love feedback!
Check out https://couchers.org/volunteer to see how you can contribute.