What we shipped, and when.

June 6, 2026

• Recorded a 75-second narrated walkthrough of the Opportunity Finder. Live on /demo.
• Wired the Watch Demo button across the home page hero, the top nav, and the footer.
• Loom-hosted with captions. Embed uses the same Loom share URL everywhere, so swapping the video is a one-env-var change.

June 2026

• First public release. The platform is live in private beta while we validate the core research workflow with a small group of authors and publishers.
• Opportunity Finder scores topics on a 0–100 scale using a blend of demand, competition, and growth signals. Each score is traceable to its data source.
• Title Scorer evaluates a working title across five axes — SEO, curiosity, emotional appeal, memorability, market fit — and suggests concrete improvements.
• Trend Explorer surfaces rising, falling, and emerging topics across seven categories. Data refreshes every five minutes; cache, not magic.
• Free tier: 10 searches per month, forever. No credit card. No countdown timer. Just the tool.
• Auth handled by Clerk. Dashboard protected by signed-in session; the public site is open.

May 2026

• Closed alpha. Roughly twenty authors, editors, and KDP operators running real projects on real topics.
• Primary feedback: the data layer needed to be honest about its sources. Added an explicit data_mode (live vs stub) and surfaced the source of every signal in the response payload.
• Wrote a public changelog. If you are reading this, you are looking at it.