Week 016 — Back After a Month, With a New Pattern
A month away from the project. Coming back, the found item logic resumes, Grok introduces the DTO pattern, and a refactor begins taking shape before the feature is even finished.
A month away from the project. Coming back, the found item logic resumes, Grok introduces the DTO pattern, and a refactor begins taking shape before the feature is even finished.
"The lost item feature lands — save, reward, visual state — and immediately surfaces a design question: found and safe are not the same thing."
A month later, the new user story ships. Then the feature that makes srchParty actually useful — reporting a lost item — gets underway.
The new user flow is nearly complete as the year ends — subscribe button, sign-in redirect, success page — with a month-long gap ahead before it wraps up.
Building the subscribe-while-logged-out flow — routing visitors through sign-in and back to the subscription page — and the session tracking it requires.