Zero to six phases in a single day
Ambitious, probably reckless, but here we are: every single phase from the original six-phase plan got at least scaffolded today. The monorepo went up, the
Ambitious, probably reckless, but here we are: every single phase from the original six-phase plan got at least scaffolded today. The monorepo went up, the database schema (26 tables, every index) ran clean on first migration, the API grew endpoints for videos / actors / studios / tags with filters and pagination, the Next.js frontend gained browse pages + detail pages + search + a dark Letterboxd-inspired theme. Then the user system: JWT auth, watch logging with auto-clear watchlist semantics, reviews with likes, favourites, watchlists, public profiles. Then social: follows for users + actors + studios + tags, an activity feed, ranked lists with like counts. Then admin: API-key-gated dashboard, the Apify import + image processing pipelines, event tracking middleware, a nightly aggregator. Then SEO: JSON-LD schemas on every detail page, a sitemap generator, unique canonicals. Then affiliates: a URL builder, click tracking via sendBeacon, personalised recommendations. Finally a GitHub Actions deploy workflow and an Nginx config to tie it all together.
It's all seed data and vapour right now, one fake studio, five fake actors, ten fake videos, but the whole application shape is there. Every path a real user would walk has at least a skeleton view. Every admin knob has an endpoint. Every canonical URL has a schema attached.
The honest part: a day like this only works because Claude's doing the typing while I'm doing the deciding. None of this would be defensible as a solo-human sprint. But the decisions are mine, and now they're encoded in real code instead of documents, which means tomorrow's work is iterating on a live thing rather than arguing about what the thing should be.