The New Dashboard Layout: How Every Change Leads to More Bottles
June 29, 2026
The hunters who consistently find bottles in NC aren't driving more miles than everyone else. They're making better decisions about where to go before they leave the house. That advantage comes down to one thing: how quickly they can turn raw data into a clear answer.
The new Pro dashboard was built around closing that gap. Every change to the layout — the overview redesign, the watchlist availability scores, the position of Favorites Finder, Glen's pre-hunt read — exists to get you from "what's out there?" to "here's where I'm going" faster. Fewer bad drives. More bottles.
The New Overview: Start Here, Every Time
The old dashboard put you in the weeds immediately — you'd open it and have to navigate to find what you needed. The new overview flips that. It's designed to be your briefing before a hunt, not a menu you dig through to find the right section.
The quick-action bar at the top of the overview gives you one-tap access to every major section: distribution search, the alert center, your saved favorites, account settings, and Glen. No scrolling, no nested menus. The things you use before a hunt are all within reach from the same screen.
Drop Alerts Front and Center
Your recent drop alerts — the notifications that tell you which boards just received what — now appear directly on the overview. Before, you had to navigate to the alerts section to see what dropped. Now that information is the first thing you see when you open the dashboard.
This matters because alerts are time-sensitive. A board that received a drop two days ago is in a different window than one that dropped two weeks ago. When that information is in front of you before you start planning, your route reflects current state instead of last week's memory.
Glen's Take: Your Watchlist Already Read
At the top of the overview, Glen has already read your watchlist before you opened the dashboard. His two-sentence assessment tells you what looks most promising right now — which bottles have the best availability signals, which boards are active, what's worth going after today versus waiting on.
Most members open the dashboard, glance at Glen's Take, and already know whether it's worth planning a run. If everything looks quiet, you wait. If something looks active, you move into the detail. That synthesis used to happen in your head after scrolling through everything — now it's done for you.
If your watchlist changes, Glen's Take updates automatically. It always reflects your current list, not a cached version from a previous session.
My Bottles: Scores Over Wishful Thinking
My Bottles is where your watchlist becomes actionable. It's split into two tabs: My Watchlist, which scores your saved bottles by board, and Bottle Hunter, which turns those scores into a route.
Availability Scores That Tell You What to Do
Every bottle on your watchlist is scored against your saved boards. The score isn't abstract — it's a plain-language label based on delivery timing, shelf lag data, and community sightings:
Availability labels
- Likely in stock - delivery detected within the typical shelf window for that board. The score degrades as time since delivery increases, so a fresh delivery scores higher than one from ten days ago.
- Pre-shelf - delivery was detected but based on the board's average lag, it hasn't hit shelves yet. The display shows you the estimated day it typically surfaces.
- May be depleted - delivery detected but past the typical shelf window. Still worth a call, but not worth the drive on its own.
- Drop only - this bottle doesn't land on shelves at this board. It goes through drops or lotteries. The score tells you not to walk in expecting to find it.
The practical shift here: instead of planning a run around what you want most, you plan it around what actually looks good right now. If Eagle Rare is showing "Likely in stock" at two boards and Blanton's is showing "May be depleted" everywhere, that tells you something. You drive for the Eagle Rare and monitor Blanton's from the alert center until the next drop.
Bottle Hunter: Build the Route Around the Scores
Once you know what looks promising, Bottle Hunter is where you build the run. You create a hunt with a location and radius, add the bottles you're targeting, and the dashboard identifies the boards within range that have the best scores for what you're chasing. Hunts save between sessions — build the route one day, run it the next, and the availability scores update automatically so you're working with current data when you actually drive.
Glen is also integrated into hunt planning. When you open an active hunt, he'll give you his read on which bottle looks most promising on the route and which board he'd start with. You can follow his recommendation or override it — the data is the same either way.
Favorites Finder: Know Before You Pull Out of the Driveway
Favorites Finder scores every combination of your saved boards and saved bottles. The new layout surfaces it more directly — it's accessible from the overview quick-action bar and integrated into the My Bottles view so you're not navigating away to find it.
For each of your saved bottles, Favorites Finder shows the top three boards sorted by the highest likelihood score. Each board entry shows how long ago we detected the last delivery, the likelihood badge, and whether the bottle is still within its typical shelf window. A consistency bonus is factored in when a board has reliably stocked the same bottle multiple times — track record matters, not just recency.
What Favorites Finder surfaces for each board
Board name
With a link to its full delivery timeline in the distribution dashboard.
Days since delivery
"3d ago", "12d ago" — how fresh the last detected delivery is.
Likelihood badge
Plain-language label: Likely in stock, Pre-shelf, May be depleted.
Detail line
Shelf window status, expected arrival if pre-shelf, or units on shelf if known.
The view updates as new delivery data comes in. Scores reflect current state — not what we knew last week.
How the Pieces Connect
The new layout isn't a collection of independent features. Each piece feeds the next, and the whole workflow is designed to close a loop that previously required a lot of manual tracking.
The hunt loop
Open the Overview
Check drop alerts. Read Glen's Take. You already know whether it's worth planning a run before you click anything else.
Check My Bottles
Availability scores tell you which bottles look good right now and at which boards. Prioritize by score, not by what you want most.
Build the Hunt
Set your location and radius in Bottle Hunter. Add the bottles with the best scores. Glen tells you which board to start with.
Run It and Log It
Drive the route. When you find something, log a sighting. That sighting triggers an alert for every other Pro member who has that bottle saved — and improves the delivery scores for everyone.
That last step is what makes the whole system compound over time. Every sighting you log feeds the data that other members are acting on, and vice versa. The more the community uses it, the sharper the scores get. The new dashboard layout is designed to make that loop as low-friction as possible so it actually gets used.
The New Dashboard Is Live
Pro members have access to the full updated dashboard now. Start with the overview — let Glen's Take tell you what looks good today, then check your availability scores and build a hunt around what's active. That's the system the new layout is built around.
Not a Pro member yet? The new layout, Glen's Take, watchlist availability scores, and Bottle Hunter are all Pro features — along with instant drop alerts covering 30+ NC ABC boards.