A platform for geolocated musical and cultural tourism, with an app for tourists, an artist area, an admin dashboard, an API, and Stripe payments.
Podscape is a platform for geolocated musical and cultural tourism. Artists can attach audio tracks to points of interest, while tourists discover them as they walk across the map.
The project also has a Heritage vertical dedicated to intangible heritage: music, stories, places, and local culture become part of a digital experience you live directly on-site.
Podscape needed to turn an ambitious idea into a complete system made up of several connected parts.
It needed a mobile app for tourists, a web app for artists, an admin dashboard, an API, and a Stripe payment system for the Pro plan. Everything had to be ready for a first launch in a real city, with content tied to the local area and people ready to try it.
I worked starting from the specs. First I clarified the main flows: how an artist uploads a track, how they connect it to a point on the map, how a tourist discovers the content, how the admin manages the platform, and how the Pro plan is activated through Stripe.
Then I built the various parts of the system while keeping a single vision of the product. Working solo, I was able to keep UX, architecture, data, API, payments, and business logic aligned, without things getting lost between multiple people.
I built a mobile app for tourists, designed to discover audio content while moving across the map.
I built a web app for artists, where they can manage their content, place tracks on points of interest, and access the Pro plan features.
I built an admin dashboard to manage the platform and an API to connect the mobile app, web app, payments, and data.
I integrated Stripe to make the Pro plan purchasable and manageable directly from the platform.
The launch city is San Lucido, in the province of Cosenza, during the Note di Borgo event.
Development started in February 2026 and reached a first complete version in May. In June and July the product entered beta testing, with launch planned for July 2026.
Podscape is a concrete example of the way I work: start from a complex idea, turn it into clear specs, and build a complete system made up of several connected platforms.
A single person built the mobile app, web app, admin dashboard, API, and payment integration. The project reached a version ready to be tested in the field, with a first launch city and a concrete cultural use case.
Metrics being updated after the July 2026 launch.
Podscape shows what it really means, in practice, to work with method even on your own: a complex idea becomes a complete system of multiple platforms, held together by clear specs and an orderly development process.
If you have a layered product to take from idea to launch, with multiple platforms that need to talk to each other, contact me for a consultation.
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