As someone who enjoys traveling, I often find myself using the visited places tracking apps. These apps keep track of the countries and regions you visited and highlight them on a world map.

The problem

After using one called "been" for a while, I got tired of how it was filled with ads and I wasn't comfortable with using Google for login. The final straw was an enormous wall of consent settings when I opened it in Europe. I realized it has hundreds if not thousands of unnecessary user trackers.

The solution

For something as simple as a world map with selected countries highlighted, I decided to create my own open source alternative called "been-foss". It is built with Svelte 5 and works entirely offline. No ads, no trackers, no auth, free, libre and 100% open-source. It's simple, elegant and built in one day (the day of my birthday!)