2026 Personal Release Notes

✅ Added

• Built a parametric LEGO model generator in Python: a three-skill pipeline (analyzer → architect → generator) that turns a brief into real, validated, buildable LDraw geometry - not a renderer, every part placement is real
• Taught the analyzer to extract design techniques - not geometry - from 7 official LEGO sets (five display helmets plus a 4-helmet F1 system) into a reusable knowledge base of 35 techniques
• Took the Red Ranger helmet build through a full redesign - Revision 2 swapped a boxy Technic-spine scaffold for a thick stacked-plate skull-core, real curved slopes, and an anatomically ordered visor/mouth-grille stack

🔭 Coming Soon

• Open Revision 2 in BrickLink Studio, add part variety, generate real build instructions
• Point the analyzer at more official sets to keep growing the technique knowledge base

🔧 Fixed

• Revision 1's thin spine and floating deck plates - read as a disconnected scaffold - replaced by a skull-core every module attaches to directly
• Generated files that Studio silently mis-resolved now carry the exact per-submodel header format (Name:/Author:/NumOfBricks) Studio expects

⚠️ Known Issues

• The part library's curved-slope and SNOT-bracket entries are a starting subset, not exhaustive - the generator throws on anything unregistered, by design
• The helmet hasn't had its final detail pass in Studio yet

✅ Added

• Shipped BuzzBoard Bingo end-to-end with Yam Cohen - real-time multiplayer meeting bingo with live rooms, a marketing site, and a post-game analytics dashboard
• Added an Ideas page to Monsets - a public backlog of what's coming next - plus an llms.txt file so AI crawlers read the site correctly too
• Rebuilt this site's build pipeline on vite-ssg for pre-rendered pages and wired up automatic Firebase deploys on every push to main

🔭 Coming Soon

• BuzzBoard Bingo user growth push
• Monsets roadmap shaped by whatever lands in the new Ideas page

🔧 Fixed

• Manual "build then deploy" replaced by a GitHub Actions workflow that ships on push
• BuzzBoard's placeholder branding - a ™ nobody asked for - replaced with a real wordmark and a design-accurate layout

⚠️ Known Issues

• BuzzBoard's mobile layout took three follow-up commits to actually stick
• The Ideas page has zero submitted ideas from real users so far

✅ Added

• Migrated Monsets' WhatsApp orchestration off n8n onto a real TypeScript backend - message routing, image-generation queueing, payment webhooks, and reminders now run as tested code instead of automation nodes
• Wired Sentry into the new backend so failures page someone instead of getting discovered by an angry parent
• Started Home Helper - an Expo app that tracks attendance, pay, and pension compliance for Israeli households employing domestic workers
• Shipped inventory management with real login for rout's pool-business partners

🔭 Coming Soon

• Home Helper past its one-household beta
• rout inventory live for its first outside partner

🔧 Fixed

• "Ship it and watch prod" replaced by tests written before the code that makes them pass
• Every phase now closes with a code review report and a human sign-off, not just a merge

⚠️ Known Issues

• LaunchCrew v2 is still parked since April - needs unsticking
• Home Helper has exactly one household using it: mine

✅ Added

• Synthesized feedback from 10+ LaunchCrew beta users - identified top friction points, prioritized v2 scope
• Shipped this portfolio - designed and built solo with vibe coding
• Formalized an AI design workflow that produces non-generic output: inspiration → AI analysis → execution

🔭 Coming Soon

• LaunchCrew v2 launch with beta feedback fully integrated
• New side project - currently stealth 👀

🔧 Fixed

• "Ship and see" replaced by structured design review before a single line of code
• Async communication gaps - batched and documented instead of reactive pings

⚠️ Known Issues

• LaunchCrew v2 still in iteration
• Occasionally writes a PRD for something that didn't need one

✅ Added

• LaunchCrew - a pre-launch audit tool: paste URL, get actionable fixes with AI-ready prompts covering security, SEO, performance, accessibility, and QA
• Defined product scope, virtual team structure (6 personas), and go-to-market - no budget, no team
• 10-person structured beta before any public announcement - feedback loop built into launch process

🔭 Coming Soon

• LaunchCrew v2 with beta feedback integrated
• More experiments on AI + design quality

🔧 Fixed

• Shipping without validation - now always beta before broad release
• Generic AI-generated design - structured visual analysis step added to every project

⚠️ Known Issues

• LaunchCrew needs post-beta iteration before full public launch
• Documentation is functional, not pretty

✅ Added

• Discovered Maven - short-format expert workshops (30–45 min) on product, AI, design, and data. Enrolled in a lot of them.
• Built a 30-day programmatic video series using Remotion - one video per day, template-driven, zero manual editing per clip

🔭 Coming Soon

• Apply Remotion pipeline to Monsets Instagram content
• Turn Maven learnings into shipped features

🔧 Fixed

• Passive learning replaced with applied output - built something with every new skill instead of just taking notes
• Video production treated as a manual task - automated the pipeline with code

⚠️ Known Issues

• Maven wishlist is longer than available hours
• Day 30 videos look significantly better than day 1

✅ Added

• Monsets - WhatsApp bot that generates themed monthly milestone cards from a baby photo. Parents pick a theme, bot handles the rest
• Automated Instagram content pipeline - every reel on @monsets.co generated via Claude Code, zero manual editing
• Full marketing site built end-to-end with vibe coding - no designer, no dev team

🔭 Coming Soon

• Expanded theme library based on user requests
• More automation in the image generation pipeline

🔧 Fixed

• "A marketing site needs a designer" - proved otherwise
• Solo development isolation - shipped with real parent feedback from day one

⚠️ Known Issues

• WhatsApp Business API has strong opinions. Respected, still annoying.
• The catalog page filter UX needs a proper pass