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Maker-attributed forum seeds + cross-maker replies

User's brief called out that each founding maker has "compatible forum/community topics" — and that the forum should feel like a real shop floor where makers help each other.

Starter Pack v2 — +6 makers, +30 products, +6 intros

User-spec'd ecosystem expansion to build "a growing network of real independent makers." Recommended additive approach (option A from the planning question) — preserves the four, a…

"From the Workshop" maker intro paragraphs

Adds a documentary-style 120-180 word intro section to each starter-pack maker's profile page.

Starter Pack — 4 makers × 5 products = 20 listings

User-spec'd seed pass to manufacture perceived marketplace activity density. The brief called out specific items, maker attribution voice, workshop context language, process imager…

Shippo/Mailgun/R2 diag cards + GA4 Live Analytics

Two P0 deliverables shipped together. Both follow the Stripe-diag pattern: backend endpoints surface friendly-error strings, frontend renders colored pills + tiles + actionable nex…

Black-clip on /clips fix (ephemeral FS → R2 migration)

Screenshot of craftersmarket.org/clips showing the "Bandsaw Through Aluminum" clip rendering as a black <video> panel — title, hashtags, byline all present, but the video itself do…

P0 Production outage fix: selective env override

Admin sign-in on craftersmarket.org fails with "Could not send the link." (screenshot attached).

Stripe Connect "Could not start onboarding" fix

User reported /maker/.../shop/manage Financials → Stripe Connect onboarding rendering "Could not start onboarding." User attributed it to LLM budget (those systems are unrelated —…

Production triage: design orphans, blank-screen guard, clip-gen error UX

User reported 3 issues on the deployed environment (craftersmarket.org)

Rotating AI hero headlines + cinematic hierarchy upgrade

User direction: "The Hero Section Needs a Complete Identity Upgrade … this style should be in rotation with ai created rotation" — plus visual hierarchy + glow dividers + section s…

Showcase 500 fix + admin empty-state polish

Pre-fix, _query() referenced only_makers from enclosing scope but the parameter was never declared on the FastAPI endpoint signature → NameError → 500 every request.

Orphan-seed guard on /clips · production black-screen fix

User reported /clips rendering a black-screen panel with metadata visible ("RAW STEEL TO FINISHED SIGN · BY CRAFTERS MARKET WORKSHOP TEAM · #BEFORE-AFTER #AI-GENERATED #WORKSHOP")…

Cinematic homepage identity · Hero + key rails reskin

User direction: "Your homepage needs a more cinematic identity. Right now the design is functional and clean, but emotionally flat." Replaced generic dark gradients with a layered…

Weekly SEO ping cron (IndexNow + GSC)

More skeletons + EmptyStates across admin queues

Note: MakerProductsTab.jsx referenced in the prior next-actions doesn't exist — ProductsList.jsx (its actual name) was already migrated to EmptyState in a previous .

Promote Founding-50 + Operator ops checklist

1. Cloudflare prerender Worker — pings /api/og/diag; flips green when the FastAPI OG endpoint returns JSON (which the Cloudflare Worker then forwards on for crawler UAs).

Founding-50 Featured Clip incentive

The first 50 organic clip uploads to /clips automatically earn a permanent ★ Featured star badge — designed to incentivise real maker workshop footage to populate the feed without…

Clip Feed follow-up · R2 native upload + opt-in daily cron + Sora budget finding

Short-form Clip Feed ("TikTok for Makers")

A full-screen vertical swipe feed for workshop clips. 6 filterable categories (workshop · cuts · welding · powder-coat · engraving · before-after) + like/save/share + Shop-this-mak…

Spinner→skeleton standardisation