Roadmap
A look at the features and improvements planned for The Trope Box as the site grows.
The Trope Box is being built in stages. The current focus is making it easy to browse boxes and understand the tropes behind them. Future updates may add accounts, stronger recommendations, better quiz results, and deeper reading preference tools.
Live / In progress
Current Focus
- Shop page with available boxes
- Stripe checkout links for each box
- Clear box previews with tropes, themes, and prices
- Improved site navigation
- Clearer product descriptions
- Better mobile layout
In progress
Account Features
- User registration and login
- Account dashboard
- Saved reading preferences
- Saved favourite tropes
- Saved tropes to avoid
- Basic profile management
- Password reset and email verification
Planned
Trope Quiz Improvements
- More detailed quiz questions
- Better result matching
- Quiz results linked to relevant boxes
- Suggested tropes based on answers
- Ability to save quiz results to an account
- More result types and reading moods
Planned
Trope Library Integration
- Better links between the Trope Library and shop boxes
- Trope pages with examples and explanations
- Tags that connect boxes, quiz results, and trope pages
- Clearer descriptions for darker romance themes
- Content preference notes where suitable
Later
Reading Profile and Book Matching
- Goodreads CSV upload
- Hardcover integration as the main live reading source
- Avoiding books users already own or have read
- Highlighting books from a user wishlist
- Box match scores based on preferences
- Reading history used to improve recommendations
Planned
Shop and Box Features
- Previous box archive
- Currently available box details
- More custom box options
- Gift box options
- Box review section
- Stock and availability labels
- Future subscription options
Exploring
Community and Content
- Featured author pages
- Book spotlight posts
- Reader polls
- Box reveal posts
- Reading guides
- Trope explainers
- Newsletter updates
Planned
Trust, Privacy and Safety
- Clear privacy controls
- Account data deletion options
- Reading data removal options
- Secure password reset
- Better content preference handling
- Clearer explanation of how recommendations are made