Public roadmap

Build the scene.
Then scale it.

Underground is being developed in public. This page separates what already works, what blocks the beta and what is intentionally being left for later.

Priorities may move when testing exposes more important reliability, legal or operational work.

The foundation is working

Available now

Available

Band catalog and publishing

Bands can manage compositions, recordings, releases, artwork, credits and public profiles from Studio.

Available

Discovery and continuous listening

Public discovery, automated home sections and the persistent player turn the catalog into a continuous listening flow.

Available

Shared live events

A concert is stored once, connected to every participating band and exposed through public and Studio views.

Available

Split and compilation releases

Multiple bands can collaborate on one canonical release, contribute their own tracks and expose it in every discography.

Available

Recruitment and scene networking

Bands and artists can publish recruitment listings, discover opportunities and start contextual conversations.

Available

Privacy, moderation and legal foundation

The platform includes reporting, privacy-request workflows, legal documents and operational compliance foundations.

Current priority

Before public beta

In progress

Notification flow fixes

Make invitations, lifecycle updates, unread states and actionable destinations consistent across every domain.

In progress

Security improvements

Harden authentication, authorization, rate limits, upload boundaries, secrets, headers and sensitive operational workflows.

In progress

Email implementation v2

Replace the MVP mail layer with reliable transactional delivery, templates, retries, observability and tested user-facing flows.

In progress

Unique band identity

Ensure every band has a stable, collision-safe identity across URLs, invitations, search, imports and future integrations.

In progress

CI issues resolved

Remove flaky or inconsistent checks and make lint, typecheck, tests, builds and migrations dependable release gates.

In progress

Legal terms validated

Complete qualified Italian and EU review and publish validated production terms, privacy and operational legal documents.

In progress

Production deployment hardening

Finalize production secrets, domains, object storage, mail delivery, health checks, backup and restore procedures.

In progress

End-to-end smoke testing

Exercise registration, band onboarding, uploads, publishing, collaborations, live invitations, playback and moderation as complete user journeys.

In progress

Administration and moderation polish

Make reports, audit history, privacy requests and platform settings reliable enough for daily operation.

In progress

Performance and failure recovery

Validate large uploads, transcoding failures, partial outages, queue recovery and public-page performance under realistic data.

After the beta baseline

Next product work

Planned

Richer live discovery

Add practical filters for date, location, region, venue and participating band while keeping event creation lightweight.

Planned

Venue accounts

Give venues a focused workspace for profiles, events, invitations and discovery without duplicating the band experience.

Planned

Scene graph and recommendations

Use real relationships such as played-with, shared venues, geography, genres and collaborations to improve discovery.

Planned

Notifications and conversations polish

Improve inbox ergonomics, contextual navigation, unread states and the transition from discovery to collaboration.

Planned

Public embeds and sharing

Offer reusable players and release or event cards that bands can place on their own websites.

Listening-first product

Milestone: Player App

Planned

Dedicated Player App

Build a focused listening experience on top of the shared API, catalog, discovery queue and playback contracts proven by the platform.

Planned

Library, queue and playlists

Turn the current persistent player into a complete listener product with saved music, queue control and portable playback state.

Planned

Web first, mobile-ready

Deliver the listening-first web application before native clients, while keeping contracts suitable for future mobile apps.

Not required for launch

Later, deliberately

Later

Native mobile player

A native client can follow once the Player App contracts and real listening behavior are stable.

Later

Merchandise integrations

Support external commerce links first. A native marketplace is intentionally not part of the initial operating model.

Later

Advanced editorial tools

Curated collections, scene spotlights and editorial programming can grow once there is enough active catalog and community data.

Underground DiscoveryPress play and enter the catalog.