Buongiorno! 🤌

These past two months have been intense for Bucketly — I shipped big features, redesigned core pages, and added a ton of new bucket items.

tl;dr

These two months featured:

• 🎯 Bucket Lists Topics – Completely new feature, your travel and topic guide
• 📃 Redesigned Bucket List — A single page bucket list to display your life's journey
• 🏔️ New Category: Mountains – Welcome to the mountains!
• 📈 200+ users — I've reached 200+ users (and that's without any marketing or promotion)
• 📷 Over 1000 bucket items have been covered with images
• 🐛 Fixeeeeeees - Tons of improvements and bugfixes

1. 🎯 Bucket Lists Topics (codenamed Travel Hub)

This is something new and exciting!

Each topic (i.e. Tag), e.g. #japan, #london, #water-sports, #unesco, #board-games, #movie, #museum, #archaeology ...with 736 topics so far, each with its own page.

This could be your travel and topic guide:

• Imagine visiting a foreign country and you want to plan your trip based on the popularity, must-haves, and your own interests.
• Imagine a big city you live or is nearby, and explore what's just next to you, available at your fingertips.
• And, imagine you are digging into a certain topic, like, let's say, archaeology -> what's the most interesting archaeological sites in the world, what are goals for archaeologists?

The data is still growing and I believe the community will help curate what's the best for each topic.

Each topic has the following sections:

• ⭐ Highlights: Top-rated must-see destinations and experiences
• 💎 Hidden Gems: Lesser-known but remarkable places worth discovering
• 🌀 Unusual: Unique, quirky, and off-the-beaten-path destinations

It also has topics basing on the category:

• 🌍 Travel: Visiting places, landmarks, countries
• 🧠 Learn: Skills, languages, knowledge
• 💖 Personal: Life milestones, relationships, growth
• ⚡ Adventure: Thrill-seeking, adrenaline activities
• 🏀 Sports: Physical activities, fitness challenges
• 🎭 Culture: Arts, traditions, events, festivals, books, movies, music, games
• 🌌 Nature: Natural wonders, outdoor experiences
• 🏔️ Mountains: Mountains, peaks, summits, ranges
• ✨ Create: Artistic, creative achievements
• 🍜 Foodie: Culinary experiences, cooking, tasting

You can also browse by extra filtered categories. For now, I have the following:

• Geographics themes:
  • 🏙️ Cities
  • 🗺️ Regions
  • 🏛️ UNESCO
  • 🌲National Parks
  • 🏛️ Museums
  • 🏰 Castles
• Nature themes:
  • 🏝️ Islands
  • 🏖️ Beaches
• Cultural themes:
  • 📅 Events
  • 🎨 Art
  • 🍿 Pop Culture
• Special interests:
  • 🛐 Religion
  • 🌃 Architecture
  • ⚔️ History
  • 🏢 Urbex

I've created one example topic page for my home country, Poland: 🔗 bucketly.co/bucket-list/poland.

It currently includes 89 items and is growing. If you wish, you can also browse each country's bucket list. Just click on Places in the header:

For all topics, you can browse under 🔗 Explore Tags page.

Bucket Lists Topics — Plans for the future?

I wish these Bucket Items Topics will be the first choice for people to plan their trips, explore neighboring places, and discover topics and ideas.

Plans for the future?

• More data, more featured topics!
• Map + Nearby discovery
• Descriptions and info about the topic
• Better backlinks and references to the topic

Any feelings about the feature? Let me know by sending e-mail!

2. 📃 Redesigned Bucket List

The Browse page has been redesigned to be more user-friendly and informative. It's way more clean, adjusted to mobile/tablet/desktop widths, and well... nicer! :).

Please check yourself: 🔗 bucketly.co/browse

Hope you like it! Please let me know what you think!

3. 🏔️ New Category: Mountains

I had a difficulty classifying mountain-related bucket items. Were they Travel, Nature, Adventure, or Sports? So the Mountains category has been created.

Future plans? Include lists (e.g. Seven Summits, or Crown of Polish Mountains - and similar lists for other countries).

4. 📈 200+ users

Wow, that's a milestone that makes us really happy and proud!

Thank you for being here. I hope you can reach your lifetime goals with Bucketly! 🥰

5. 📷 Over 1000 bucket items has covered with images

You speak, I hear! Emojis and flags are great, but images are even better! I've added images to over 1000 bucket items. That's total of 47.83% coverage of all bucket items! 🥳

6. 🎉 New bucket items added!

Oh yes, hundreds of new items have just arrived! Take a look at the newest bucket items, tick off what you want to do / have done, and let's make your bucket list even more complete!

Link: 🔗 bucketly.co/browse?sort=recent

7. 🐛 Fixeees and improvements

Many fixes and improvements:

• New landing page
• Added testimonials to the landing page
• Redesigned Browse page
• Redesigned site header -> it's cleaner now
• Fixed year/period assignment for some scenarios
• Fixed broken countries in Places menu
• Add missing, less known countries and territories
• Optimized for ultrawide views
• Fixed mobile / tablet annoyances
• Updated titles and descriptions for hundreds of bucket items
• Fixed cache invalidation issues
• Personal Bucket List has option to Show Details (years, photos, comments)
• Fixed image resizing issues
• ...and many more (230 in total)!

8. 🆕 What's next?

I'm working on the following features:

• Management View -> batch edit dates – Prepare for the 2025 Year Wrapping!
• Feed — See the latest bucket list items from your friends
• Notifications — Get notified when your friends add new bucket list items

9. 😎 From my bucket list this month...

I had an epic month of October, traveling to Malaysia, Brunei, and Singapore.

Many items have been ticked off my bucket list this month:

• Visit Malaysia
• Visit Borneo
• Visit Brunei
• Visit Singapore
• Visit Kuala Lumpur
• Eat durian
• Eat nasi lemak
• See a crocodile in the wild
• See a proboscis monkey in the wild

and well, many many more!

In the meantime, you may check these countries bucket lists:

• Malaysia: 🔗 bucketly.co/bucket-list/malaysia
• Brunei: 🔗 bucketly.co/bucket-list/brunei
• Singapore: 🔗 bucketly.co/bucket-list/singapore

10. 🙏 Support the Project

Servers, databases, high-resolution images, and countless hours of work add up — even a €3 coffee-tip helps keep Bucketly growing

Hey, I'm glad you are reading this section :) I'm personally very determined and dedicated to make Bucketly a success. My goal is to help people to achieve their dreams and make them happy. The project itself is hugely time-, energy-, and money-consuming.

The project is a new territory for me, but it's also challenging and rewarding. Whenever I see new users coming to the page or users making even tiny actions, it's a huge motivation to keep going.

If you want to support me and help me achieve my goal, please consider donating, even with a coffee-tip. I'm working on many other exciting features, so the Bucketly grows more and more, and I'm super happy to see that people are using it.

If you don't wish to support the project, please consider sharing the website with your friends. It's a great way to help the project grow and it gives me a wind in my sails!

Donation link: bucketly.co/support

11. What can you do now?

• Register and fill your Bucket List (if you haven't already!)
• Add photos and comments to your bucket items
• Follow other users
• Like other users' bucket items
• Complete your lifetime goals list
• 💖 Support the project!
• 💚 Share the website with your friends!

Thanks 🙏 — Darek