Changelog
What changed, and what's still broken.
Including the things that don't work. A changelog that only lists wins isn't much use to anyone deciding whether to trust the thing.
Known issues
Google sign-in is disabled. The sign-in itself succeeds, but the session cookie is issued in a way the app can't read back, so users were silently returned as signed-out. Rather than show a button that appears to do nothing, it's hidden. Email and password sign-in works normally. The fix requires serving authentication from Closebud's own domain, which is being worked on.
No self-serve account deletion. Emailing mybasementgrow@gmail.com gets your account and data deleted. A button in the dashboard is on the list.
Fonts load from Google. That sends your IP to Google on page load. Self-hosting them is planned.
Accounts, favorites, and reviews 20 July 2026
- Added accounts with email and password, so favorites and reviews can follow you between devices.
- Added a favorites list — tap the heart on any shop.
- Added public reviews with star ratings, one per shop per person, editable after posting.
- Added a dashboard for your saved shops, your reviews, and your display name.
- Added a report link on reviews, routing to a queue only the maintainer can read.
- Hid Google sign-in after finding it completes but can't return a usable session.
- Fixed reviews not appearing immediately for the person who just wrote one, caused by caching.
- Fixed a stale-token retry bug and a race when toggling favorites quickly.
- Added About, Welcome Guide, Privacy, Terms, and this page.
23 states, 7,223 shops 19 July 2026
- Expanded coverage from 13 to 23 states and jurisdictions, and from 5,567 to 7,223 licensed retailers. Added Delaware, Florida, Louisiana, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, and West Virginia.
- Gave every shop a stable identifier so favorites and reviews survive data updates.
- Fixed 19 West Virginia shops whose names had phone numbers stuck to them, caused by a line-ending bug in the PDF parser.
- Made the shop count on the page update automatically from the data, after it went stale twice.
First public release 17 July 2026
- Closebud went live: tap once, get licensed dispensaries sorted by distance.
- 5,567 retailers across 13 states, sourced from official state cannabis regulators rather than third-party directories.
- Distance and compass bearing calculated on your device — your location never reaches a server.
- Filter by shop type; one tap for directions.
- City fallback for when GPS is unavailable or denied.
Working on next
- Restoring Google sign-in by moving authentication onto Closebud's own domain.
- A "visited" log, so you can track shops you've actually been to.
- Self-serve account deletion in the dashboard.
- Self-hosted fonts, removing the request to Google on page load.
- More states as their regulators publish usable license data.
Found something wrong — a shop that's closed, a bad address, a missing listing? mybasementgrow@gmail.com.