Tracking Sun...🌞
Stay in the loop as we level up ShadySide — one shady seat at a time. Here’s where you’ll find all our latest releases, features, and fixes.
ShadySide 1.5.0 is a major stable release focused on making the app more useful, reliable, shareable, and ready for real-world travel planning.
What started as a simple idea — “which side should I sit on to avoid the sun?” — now feels like a fuller product: smoother trip planning, better sharing, saved routes, recommendation feedback, a public status page, and a more polished experience from start to finish.
This release includes 84 commits since v1.3.0, covering product improvements, reliability work, performance upgrades, and plenty of polish.
Sharing your ShadySide result is now smoother, faster, and cleaner.
Perfect for sending your “sit on this side” result to friends, family, or fellow commuters before the ride.
The planner has received a big UX pass so the main journey flow feels calmer and more practical.
ShadySide should now feel less like a beta tool and more like something you can actually use before heading out.
You can now save routes you care about and quickly return to recent trips.
This is especially useful for:
Saved routes stay focused on convenience while keeping the planner lightweight and privacy-conscious.
ShadySide can now learn from real-world feedback.
After a result, you can quickly say whether the recommendation was accurate. This lays the foundation for improving recommendation quality over time without making users fill out long forms.
Tiny button. Big future impact.
ShadySide now has a public status page for visibility into app health and reliability.
The new status system includes:
This helps make ShadySide feel more transparent and trustworthy as it grows.
This release includes several performance and reliability improvements across the app.
Basically: less drag, more shade.
ShadySide’s public surfaces have been refreshed and expanded.
This helps ShadySide explain itself better to new users, search engines, and launch visitors.
A lot changed behind the scenes too.
Not flashy, but very important. Future-you says thanks.
ShadySide is now on a much stronger stable foundation.
Next, the focus is on:
The mission stays simple:
Help people travel smarter, cooler, and a little less sunburned.
Stay shady. 😎
Full Changelog: https://github.com/osnaren/shady-side/compare/v1.3.0...v1.5.0
This release focuses on refining the share card experience — making shared trip images more polished, layout-aware, and visually responsive.
bg-surface for UI consistencyfalse on any error instead of checking specific error types)share-card-utils.ts)With the share card now delivering polished, shareable trip images, future work will focus on the feedback system, status page, and public API.
Stay shady. Travel smarter. 😎
Full Changelog: https://github.com/osnaren/shady-side/compare/v1.2.0...v1.3.0
ShadySide has officially moved out of beta and into a stable release! 🎉
This update is all about making trip planning smoother, sharing easier, privacy stronger, and the overall experience more reliable — so you can focus on picking the cooler side of the ride without second-guessing the app.
ShadySide is now on a stable release track.
Future updates will focus on reliability, polish, practical travel improvements, and making the planner even more useful for real-world journeys.
Stay shady. Travel smarter. 😎
Full Changelog: https://github.com/osnaren/shady-side/compare/v1.0.0-beta...v1.2.0
After months of coding in dark mode and dodging bugs like UV rays, ShadySide.app is finally out in public beta! 💥 Get ready to outsmart the sun and find your perfect seat — because this release is packed with features that’ll keep you cool, literally.
Enjoy the ride. Stay shady. We’re just getting started 🌤️
What’s New:
🌓 Theme Toggle Now Live!
Users can now switch between Light, Dark, and System themes — available in both the navbar and settings panel.
✨ Seamless Theme Transitions
No more flashes or awkward shifts — theme changes now feel smooth and intentional.
🛠️ Under-the-Hood Enhancements
ThemeProvider to fix hydration mismatches“Get shady or stay bright — now it’s totally up to you.”
Full Changelog: [Compare Changes ›]
What’s New:
UI Update:
Full Changelog: [Compare Changes ›](https://github.com/osnaren/shady-side/compare/v0.4.0-beta...v0.4.1-beta)
🧠 This release stabilizes the app with key infra improvements and elevates the UX experience 📜 Compare Changes: https://github.com/osnaren/shady-side/compare/v0.3.0-alpha...v0.4.0-beta
UI and Copy Review – 5bd2beaAccessibility Audit – e02ffc9Performance Audit – a041399Fix: Improves null checks for window/document – 8b2f940Feature: Dynamic rendering for geocode API route – 2b1137fRefactor: Reorganized codebase structure – #3🔗 PRs:
📜 Full Changelog: https://github.com/osnaren/shady-side/compare/v0.2.0-alpha...v0.3.0-alpha