Wanderpin - the first five seconds, final touchups

Everything in this batch is about the moment someone lands: a blank globe is intimidating, so I built a real first-run, made it personal, and fixed a jank I’d been ignoring.

A front door instead of an empty globe

New visitors get a welcome dialog: Plan a trip, or Remember one you took. Either way there are starter templates (a week in Italy, around the world, a California road trip) you can drop in with one tap and start dragging stops around.

Coachmarks that follow the actual UI

A short guided tour spotlights real elements: search, the view toggle, Play. It measures each target’s live bounding rect, re-measures on resize and focus, flips above/below by screen half, and hides itself the moment you focus the search box so it never fights you while typing. Dismissals persist so it doesn’t nag on return visits.

Where it stands

Build’s green, all staged, not yet committed. Next: watch real first sessions, do people tap through a template or skip straight to search?