Where it's been, where it's going
Roadmap
Gluten Hero started as a prototype on March 7, 2026. This page is the honest record: what shipped, when, what a member reported that changed it, and what is next. The numbers are counted from the build log, not typed in.
588
build log entries shipped
Mar 7, 2026
first entry
Oct 11, 2026
latest entry
283
shipped in May 2026, the busiest month
6
milestones below that started as a member report
Where it's been
Four chapters so far
Milestones marked from the community started as a bug report or feature request from a member or tester. The full list of everything shipped is in the build log.
March 7 – April 30, 2026
Building the app
From a first prototype to a working app in under eight weeks: receipts, trips, medical expenses, and the report that ties them together.
First screens built
Onboarding, the dashboard, and the bottom tab bar were the first three things to exist. The app was called GlutenGuard and lived in Lovable.
Moved to a real codebase
Two days after the prototype, the app was migrated to a native React codebase so every feature after this could be tested and reviewed like real software.
The full report, and a way to tell us when something breaks
The multi-page PDF report for your CPA or tax professional shipped the same day as the in-app bug report button that beta testers still use.
Bug Desk becomes one tool
Every report a tester files lands in one admin desk with triage, history, and a fix record, so nothing reported gets lost.
May 1 – May 21, 2026
Pre-Beta and the Beta Gate
Founding Members got in first. Behind the gate, nine focused sprints answered a competitor analysis line by line, and the sign-in flow was rebuilt around what testers actually hit.
Pre-Beta opens to Founding Members
A closed cohort of invited testers, iterating daily.
Sprint 0: cheap visible wins
Tracked Since badge, average premium per receipt, a red Extra Cost callout, dark mode, and a forbidden-language audit of every screen.
Sprints 1 and 2: tax-year filters and year-over-year
Pick a tax year on Reports, export just that year, and compare two years side by side for items, travel, and medical.
Sprints 3 and 4: Insights, plus import and export
Charts and plain-language insight cards, and a way to bring your data in from CeliTrack or a spreadsheet with one-tap rollback.
Sprints 5, 5b, 5c, 5d: polish, trust, phones, accessibility
Saving tips, honest empty states with confidence framing, charts that work on a phone, screen-reader summaries on every card.
Sprint 6: installable app that works offline
Install to your home screen, log receipts and trips without a signal, and let them sync when you are back online.
Beta Gate goes up
Sign-in checks the invite list before it does anything else, so only Founding Members and invited testers get in.
from the community
Magic links retired for a 6-digit code
Testers on iPhone home-screen installs kept landing signed-out because the magic link opened in Safari. The code-paste flow fixed it for every device at once.
from the community
Restaurant surcharges count too
A member asked why a $2 gluten-free upcharge at a restaurant could not be logged. Store or Restaurant became a choice on every entry within the week.
May 22 – June 30, 2026
Public Beta
Billing, receipt scanning, and a help center, with the gate still up. Most of what shipped here started as a tester report.
Public Beta opens
Free and paid tiers ship over the following ten days.
Shareable invite links
One link with a use cap and a 30-day expiry, so a tester could bring a friend without an admin typing in each email.
Optional password sign-in
The 6-digit code stays the default; a password became an opt-in second method for people who wanted one.
Scan a receipt
Snap a photo and the gluten-free items land in the form with names and prices filled in, ready to review. Paid plans only, with a daily spend guard so no one can run up the bill.
A lane for caregivers
The design system gained a caregiver audience and the Caregiver Guide was published on the resources hub.
from the community
The hamburger menu spillage, fixed
A Founding Member reported the resources site nav spilling out on phones. The cause was a caching rule serving year-old CSS; every shared asset now carries a version stamp.
July 1, 2026 – today
Live
The gate came down. Since then the work has been pricing, Canada, and making sure we find out when something breaks before you do.
Go Live: free self-serve signup opens
Anyone can sign up for the free plan. Receipt scanning stays on paid plans, and bug reports got a cap so the widget cannot be flooded.
Training videos in the help center
Help articles can embed a video inline; the beta-tester walkthroughs were the first.
Bug Desk becomes its own product
The reporting tool built for Gluten Hero testers was extracted into a standalone repo for reuse.
Quarterly spending audit worksheet gets a page
A free download that had no page to find or share now has one.
Two plans: Free, and Annual at $49
The Monthly plan was retired and the rising-price schedule with it. Anyone who joined earlier keeps what they signed up for.
from the community
Canada gets kilometres and the right tax form
A Canadian member was asked for miles on trips and their Share Report email named a US form. Both now follow the member's country.
from the community
"Everyone's a founder!" fixed
A brand-new free account showed a Founding Member badge. Founding status now requires a paid plan, enforced in one place, and the mislabeled accounts were corrected.
from the community
Sign-in code not arriving? Check spam
The sign-in screen now says so, and a help article explains what to do.
The sites are watched
This roadmap page had been crashing for months and nothing noticed. Every public page is now loaded by a monitor every 30 minutes, and the status page reads real checks instead of a hand-edited file.
Right now
Shipped in the last 30 days
Counted from the build log at the last deploy. No sprint is marked in progress; the work below is what actually landed.
- Shipped
Removed a folder that landed in the wrong repo
Cleared out a folder from another project that was pushed into this repo by mistake, so the codebase holds only Gluten Hero.
- Shipped
Academy admins can open the Founding Members courses
Gluten Hero admins can now open and review the four Founding Members courses in the Academy without holding a membership or being labeled a Founding Member.
- Shipped
Academy admin access verified live and documented
Confirmed that admins can open the Academy's Founding Members courses on the live site, and recorded what's still needed before those courses have lessons to read.
- Shipped
Resources library links fixed, stale labels cleaned up
Every button in the resources library header and footer now leads somewhere real, and the page no longer shows "null min" or out-of-date "updated" claims.
- Shipped
The Academy's first 30 days, one small step a day
The free First Month course is now a real 30-day course: one theme a week, seven short lessons, and a two-minute "log one thing" task on the days in between.
- Shipped
Upgrading now tells you it worked
After you pay for the Annual plan, the Billing screen confirms the upgrade instead of showing you the buy button again.
- Shipped
September look at what the other celiac cost apps are doing
Four months after the first competitor teardown, we checked every known product again and hunted for new ones, so the next round of building is aimed at real gaps.
- Shipped
Pop-up messages no longer cover the bug button
Short messages like "You earned a badge" now appear at the top of the screen instead of on top of the bug-report button.
- Shipped
Buying Annual through the checkout link now sets up your account automatically
A $49/year purchase through the Stripe checkout link creates your Founding Member record, your app login, and your welcome email without anyone doing it by hand.
- Shipped
Upgrade and Manage Billing work again in the app
Clicking Upgrade or Manage Billing in the app reaches Stripe again instead of failing with a server error.
- Shipped
In-app pricing answers match the two-plan world
The app's own FAQ, upgrade prompts, and sign-in screen no longer quote the retired deposit, founding price, or Monthly plan.
- Shipped
The bug button dropped its BETA badge
The little red BETA tag on the bug-report button in the app is gone; Gluten Hero has been live since July 1 and the button is a permanent part of it.
- Shipped
Every page now prices Gluten Hero the same way: free to try, $49 to keep your records
The community site, resources hub, docs, and welcome emails all describe the two real plans and nothing else, and every buy button goes to the one live checkout.
- Shipped
Every parked idea now has one home and a verified status
The list of every future or parked Gluten Hero feature has been checked against the actual code and turned into a single planning page, so nothing gets rebuilt, forgotten, or promised twice.
- Shipped
The free plan's 30-receipt cap now counts what you log
The free plan's limit of 30 receipts a month now counts receipts you log this month, whatever date is printed on them.
- Shipped
Gluten Hero stays gluten
A standing decision: Gluten Hero tracks the cost of living gluten-free, and any tool for other conditions will be its own app, not a mode inside this one.
- Shipped
Invite-expiry reminder emails are finally wired to deploy
Invited testers with a time-limited account will get the 7-day, 3-day, and 1-day reminder emails, which had been written in May but never actually deployed or scheduled.
- Shipped
The partnership form on glutenhero.net now reaches a real inbox
Dietitians, nonprofits, GF brands, clinics, and tax professionals who fill out the partnership form on glutenhero.net now land in a saved record, an email to the partnerships inbox, and a team alert, instead of a mailto link.
- Shipped
The public roadmap now tells the real story
The Roadmap page on the community site shows where Gluten Hero started, everything that shipped and when, which changes came from member reports, and what is next, all sourced from the repo instead of a list that went stale in May.
- Shipped
status.glutenhero.net loads straight to the status page
status.glutenhero.net now opens directly on the status page with no flash of the home page, and the uptime history reads the way it should.
- Shipped
The status page now tells the truth on its own
status.glutenhero.net shows measured health: the banner and the 90-day uptime dots come from the automated checks that run every 30 minutes, not from a file someone has to remember to edit.
- Shipped
Status page speaks plain English, and every row is really checked
status.glutenhero.net now lists App, Main Site, Community Site, Resources Hub, Sign In, and Checkout, and all six are checked automatically every 30 minutes.
Where it's going
What's next
Kept current by hand and reordered when a member report earns it. Anything that ships moves off this list and into the build log. Want something on it? Ask for it.
How this page stays honest: the timeline cites the repo document behind every milestone, the counts are computed from the build log at build time, and the upcoming list is the only part edited by hand.