The end of Pinmapple 🥹

Hello dear travelers on Hive, @martibis here. Today I am here to share some sad news. We've decided to shut @pinmapple down. It's been a long and super rewarding journey both for the team and the travel community on Hive, but at this point as a team we feel we're burned out on the project and want to focus on other aspects of our lives. After curating travel content each day for 7 years, this is of course not entirely unexpected. The fact we have been at it this long speaks to how much we do love (and still love) the project and the entire Hive travel community that has come into existence around it. As a team, we're super grateful to all of you who have ever pinned a pin on @pinmapple. The project could never have been what it is without all of you. ❤️

What we as a community have achieved

• Total Pins: 114,030 (it's pretty crazy there are more than hundred-thousand pins on the map)
• Featured Posts: 32,971 (these have been highlighted by the curation team!)
• Total Users: 5,459 (this is all of you)

_{You can zoom anywhere in the world and find a post by one of you. Pretty incredible.}

Details of closing down

We'll pull the plug early June, and stop curating end of May. This means there will be no more #traveldigest from the end of May and the domain https://pinmapple.com will no longer show any pins. The Discord will be deleted and the community on Hive will no longer be moderated. That said, we would love for someone to carry on the torch under a different brand name. So I'll take some time to update the open source code base + make a back up of our database as well (for the devs here, it might be worth working together with a HAF provider). With regards to our DHF proposal. It would be appreciated if current voters could leave their vote up until mid June, after which I will close down the proposal myself.

A brief timeline of @pinmapple

• 2017: Launch after hackathon - Blog Post: Introducing Steemitworldmap
• 2017: First 100 Pins - Celebrating 100 Pins
• 2017: First Travel Digest - Travel Digest #1
• 2018: 10,000 Pins Milestone
• 2020: Introducing Mr. Pinmapple to the Hive Community - Introducing Mr. Pinmapple
• 2021: Haveyoubeenhere App Launch - Launch of Haveyoubeenhere
• 2020: 1,000 #traveldigest & 50,000 Pins Milestone - Celebrating 1000 Digests
• 2021: Fastcurate Tool Implementation
• 2022: Hivefest Amsterdam Treasure Hunt - Pinmapple Treasure Hunt
• 2023: 100,000 Pins Achievement

Opensource technical stack

Pinmapple: the main application users interact with
Fastcurate: our internal curation tool (allows for making a selection for daily digest + auto posts / votes the final curation to the Hive blockchain)
Haveyoubeenhere: a standalone mobile application that integrates with Hive / Pinmapple

• Pinmapple: NextJS front-end
• Pinmapple: NodeJS back-end
• Pinmapple: Automated pin detection (NodeJS + HiveSQL)
• Pinmapple: MySQL DB (incl. current data)
• Fastcurate: NextJS front-end
• Fastcurate: NodeJS back-end
• Haveyoubeenhere: flutter front-end
• Haveyoubeenhere: NodeJS back-end
• Haveyoubeenhere: MySQL DB

_{Please note no GitHub URLs are posted yet as I want to entirely refactor the opensource repositories to make it easier for others to carry on the Pinmapple mission. In a follow up post these will be shared too.}

Last but absolutely not least

A big thank you to the curation team. @livinguktaiwan without whom the project would've never lasted as long as it did. @choogirl for literally being there from the very start. @lizanomadsoul for curating & a lot of shared travel memories and @ybanezkim26 as the latest curation member and being a genuinely kind soul.

Goodbye @pinmapple see you all in another chapter

_{Our pinmapple mascot only has these cool happy vibes because of all of you. Thank you.}