What we did today
Shipped Phase 35 — International Neighborhoods + Vesta + WC Hub
6 plans executed across 5 waves with worktree-isolated parallel agents. Added Paris, Tokyo, Buenos Aires, Cape Town, and Vesta (fictional war-affected city) to the selectable cities. Built the World Cup 2026 hub. Updated the demo script with the Vesta closing beat.
Locked autonomous-execution mode
Founder direction: skip mid-phase review checkpoints, review everything at end of phase only. Flipped plans 04/05/06 from `autonomous: false` → `true`. Same direction locks Phase 36.
14 World Cup concepts brainstormed (founder flagged the hub was "boring")
Generated and mocked-up 14 distinct WC hub concepts across 5 themes (Hyperlocal, Cross-city, Tourist+Diaspora, Business+Commerce, Civic+Cultural). Founder said "I love it all" — all 14 will be absorbed into a sectioned WC Hub V2 in Phase 36.
Open the 14-concept gallery →Vesta tone shift — went harder-hitting per founder direction
Plan 04 used dignified euphemisms (D-11). Founder said "go harder." Wrote 5 new Vesta posts using shelter-in-place / bomb shelter / attack / aid coalition / missing-person-found-after-attack vocabulary. Still fictional (no Ukraine/Gaza/etc.). 8 original posts kept as civic-vitality counterweight per D-09 mixed tone.
Open the kept-vs-added diff →Cross-city consistency audit — 11 issues found, 10 fixed
Explore agent crawled the codebase. Found: city pick didn't persist across reload, briefing subtitle hardcoded WB, Emma Chen showed in every city, feed listings WB-only, calendar fallback WB, hotspot reports defaulted to WB coords, plus more. All committed atomically with conventional messages.
iPad walk-through + 6 more bugs fixed
You walked through the live app on iPad. Found 8 more issues: onboarding city pick didn't propagate (race condition), urgent banner stacked all cities, feed inserts (listings + nurturing + social nudges + new neighbors) still WB. All 6 fixable issues shipped. 2 parked: calendar polish (Phase 36) + story bubbles (next session discuss).
12 mobile screengrabs captured via Playwright
Set up headless Chromium at iPhone 14 Pro viewport (393×852). Captured Williamsburg, Vesta red banner, Tokyo, Paris, BA, Cape Town, selector dropdown, WC hub drawer, Vesta + Tokyo briefings, BA calendar. PNG output at pitch/deck-assets/. Script lives at scripts/take-deck-screenshots*.mjs for re-capture.
Pitch deck V2 built — strategic acquisition framing + 12 mobile screengrabs
Deep research on M&A pitch deck best practices. V1 deck untouched as rollback. V2 (20 slides) adds: 4 product-proof slides with screengrabs, Vesta beat slide, cross-city WC beat slide, RESHAPED moat (honest "zero users by design" framing), Strategic Fit Map (Compass-has vs Nabe-brings), Revenue Levers for Compass (quantified accretion math), What This Defends Against (Zillow threat), Day 1/30/90/Year 3 integration timeline, Honest Risks + What I Won't Do, explicit Ask with anchor numbers.
Open V2 deck →WC Hub V2 mockup — all 14 concepts absorbed
Multi-section drawer with all 14 ideas grouped into 6 themed sections (Hero / Happening Now / Hyperlocal / Cross-city / Tourist+Diaspora / Cultural). Keeps Option A entry (pinned card in Right Now banner — already shipped). Borrows Option C's "inline section with horizontal cards" feel for the drawer interior. Vesta gets full-width hero in Cultural section.
Open WC Hub V2 mockup →Pushed to GitHub — `pitch` branch now lives on remote
First push of the pitch branch to origin. RPC initially failed (large payload, 249 commits ahead of main), succeeded with `http.postBuffer=524288000`. Branch tracks `origin/pitch` for future pushes.
View pitch branch on GitHub →What we decided
App changes shipped today
visible on the live app at port 5173- ✓City pick persists across reload via localStorage
- ✓Onboarding city pick propagates to active state (no more landing on WB after picking Tokyo)
- ✓Emma Chen (Featured Agent) hidden in non-NYC cities
- ✓Per-city briefings — 8 hand-tuned briefings (Métro alerts in Paris, Yamanote delay in Tokyo, shelter-in-place in Vesta, etc.)
- ✓Briefing subtitle shows active city name (not "Williamsburg")
- ✓Calendar subtitle + filtering per city
- ✓5 international + Vesta hotspots added — red urgent banner now populates for high-urgency cities
- ✓5 hard-hitting Vesta posts + 2 new Right Now alerts (shelter-in-place + aid convoy)
- ✓SocialNudgeCards ("Happening Tonight") now per-city — pulls from briefing data
- ✓NurturingStrip ("new here guide") gated to NYC only
- ✓Feed listings filter by active city (no more WB listings in Tokyo)
- ✓PostLocationMiniMap extended to 8 keys (fixed build break)
- ✓Hotspot report fallback hardened (was silently using WB coords)
Phase 36 — what's planned for next sessions
8 plans across 5 waves · ~16-25 hours total| Plan | What | Theme |
|---|---|---|
| 36-01 | US pilot expansion — add LA + Austin (Day 30 deck pilot markets) | scale |
| 36-02 | Palette refresh + per-city accents — Variant C (midnight-purple → black) + unique color per city | brand |
| 36-03 | WC Hub V2 mock data scaffold — extend mockWorldCup.ts with per-section sub-arrays | WC hub |
| 36-04 | WC Hub V2 sectioned drawer build — hero + 5 sections + 14 feature cards + Vesta full-width hero | WC hub |
| 36-05 | Photo threading types + mock data — extend Post type, contributor photos | live coverage |
| 36-06 | Photo threading UI + UserProfile — gallery view, map pin handler, "Where they've been" profile section | live coverage |
| 36-07 | Calendar polish — color-coded category dots + upcoming-date mock data wiring + empty-date state | polish |
| 36-08 | Photo audit — sweep every mock data file, fix mismatched photos (founder flagged as demo-killer) | pitch-critical |
Open questions for next session
~30 design questions to lock before /gsd:plan-phase 36
All open questions are captured in .planning/phase-36-open-questions.md across 5 streams (US expansion, WC Hub V2, photo threading, profile linkage, palette+colors, photo audit, calendar polish, cross-cutting). Founder marks ⬜ → ✅ before /gsd:discuss-phase 36.
- Profile section name — "Where they've been" vs "On the ground" vs "Photos"?
- Photo thread time decay — 24-hour auto-lock OK?
- Calendar dot color mapping — 8 categories or fewer?
- Per-city accent gradient mapping — confirm 10 city palette assignments?
- Photo audit — keep Picsum or upload curated images for hero shots?
Everything to review (in priority order)
When you come back
- 1. Open
.planning/phase-36-open-questions.md— mark ⬜ → ✅ on the questions that matter - 2. Run
/gsd:discuss-phase 36— Claude consumes your answers + asks clarifying follow-ups - 3. Run
/gsd:plan-phase 36— writes the 8 plan files - 4. Run
/gsd:execute-phase 36— ships autonomously, you review at end