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The Unpinned Map

The Unpinned Map unites a collective of writers, photographers, and ethical explorers. The platform serves as a digital sanctuary for conscious travel, steering explorers away from saturated tourist traps and redirecting focus toward overlooked local communities and untold stories.

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+140%
increase in organic search visibility
1.2s
average media-heavy page load
Zero
developer dependency for publishing

The problem

The collective required a highly visual, media-rich platform to showcase their travel guides. However, managing high-resolution photography and complex editorial layouts often requires heavy technical overhead, creating a severe publishing bottleneck for non-technical creators.

The solution

We transformed Odoo into a custom, high-performance publishing engine. By engineering a distraction-free, visually-led frontend and pairing it with a frictionless drag-and-drop backend, we empowered the editorial team to publish rich, SEO-optimized stories without ever touching a line of code.

How we approached it

1

Architected a scalable CMS environment tailored for heavy multimedia assets and immersive photo galleries.

2

Designed a responsive, highly-optimized frontend reading experience that prioritizes storytelling and visual impact.

3

Streamlined the editorial workflow, setting up intuitive publishing tools for a distributed team of creators.

4

Implemented dynamic SEO schemas and metadata routing to ensure off-the-beaten-path destinations surface organically in search.

Tech stack

Odoo CMSPythonPostgreSQLQWebJavaScript
We can publish rich, photo-heavy stories ourselves without touching code. It removed the one bottleneck that was holding our small team back.
Editorial Team · Editor, The Unpinned Map
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