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Weekly Launch Review — 2026-06-29

Run ID: 20260629-080558 | Monitoring: 104 | Graduated (ref): 7

TL;DR

• Pricing experiment (abc-pro-plan-pricing-v3) is structurally blocked: control arm deprecated 58 days ago with only 46 exposures. Catastrophe threshold cannot be evaluated. Needs product decision: reframe, re-enable control, or ship best performer.
• Blog migration working: impressions +76%, clicks +62% since launch. Daily avg now ~3,900 impressions. Target of 100 is a smoke placeholder (actual: 153K cumulative).
• Internal linking SEO: city pages lost 9.2% clicks while hospital pages gained 56.8%. The registered KPI was never instrumented in 93 days. Needs human input.
• 4 launches ready for graduation: map-markers-grey-blocks (75d, zero regressions), email-pii-removal (94d, codebase audit clean), mobile-address-input-styling (79d, iOS share +6.7pp), map-z-index-ordering (47d, all 10 tests green).

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Weekly Launch Review — 2026-W25 (Jun 15)

TL;DR

99 monitoring launches reviewed (10 deep-dived, 89 one-liners). 3 ready to graduate (blog-content-sitemap, email-pii-removal, map-z-index-ordering). 4 need human decisions (abc pricing experiment dead control arm, two mobile conversion launches below baseline, map-markers with no KPI after 62d). 25 off-track. 20 envelope-broken (no data after 62+ days).

Top Actions This Week

1. ABC Pro Plan Pricing — Control arm dead (n=46, deprecated 37d ago). Decision needed: end experiment and pick pro-old-layout as winner on directional signal, or reintroduce small control. Payment failure rate on pro-new-design (8.8%) needs investigation.
2. Map Markers Grey Blocks — 62 days with no KPI registered. inquiry_submitted shows +3.2x improvement. Register a real metric or graduate by observation.

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Seattle dining — recommendations + full dossiers (one doc)

Agent pipeline output, 2026-06-14. Seattle Jun 18-23, family of 5 (Gaurav/Rohan/Nani vegetarian + allergens, Shikha/Niam omnivore, kids 10 & 12, Nani ~70). 54 candidates -> 50 evaluated -> 33 good-evidence dossiers. Every quote grounded in fetched text; ratings from verified platform APIs. Writing/voice is a later lint step.

⭐ The recommendation — a 4-dinner arc

The engine's editorial pick, in order, with its reasoning:

Din Tai Fung — Arrival night, walkable downtown reset

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Color e-ink 'planes that flew by' sunroom frame — options, decision matrix, photos, $260–$1,200 tiers (2026-06-12)

Color E‑Ink "Planes That Flew By" Display — Final Plan

A wall‑mounted color e‑ink frame for the sunroom that shows the aircraft flying through the eastern sky over Bullough's Pond, auto‑updated each hour from a home server. The airplane analog of Teddy Warner's AvianVisitors bird collage, paired with the Skylight ADS‑B receiver (FlightAware Pro Stick Plus + antenna).

All prices and capabilities live‑verified against vendor pages and official API docs, 2026‑06‑13.

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Weekly Launch Review — Week of 2026-06-08

93 monitoring launches reviewed. 10 deep-dived (Tier-1), 83 orchestrator-assessed.

TL;DR

1. Pro Plan experiment (abc-pro-plan-pricing-v3) is structurally unresolvable — control deprecated Day 6, only 47 exposures. Pro adoption only 3.5-7.9% of purchasers. Needs human decision: graduate best variant or re-run.
2. Blog migration working — impressions +49%, clicks +53% in recent 14d vs pre-migration. But KPI pipeline is broken (collecting garbage numbers). Fix metric collection, set real targets.
3. Internal linking SEO shows WORSE rankings on 7/8 city pages — opposite of hypothesis. Needs human review before continuing.
4. 5 launches ready to graduate — map-markers, address-autocomplete, mobile-address-input, email-pii-removal, free-listing-deferred-activation. All 30-75 days monitoring with zero regressions.

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Skylight — Store Checklist & Buy Guide

Project: cpaczek/skylight — decode live aircraft radio (ADS-B) and project planes onto the ceiling at their true overhead positions, mixed with sun/moon/stars/ISS. Date: 2026-06-07 · For: Boston same-day + order-online plan

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The one thing we will NOT compromise on

The most interesting, valuable part of this project is the radio receiver — the SDR dongle + antenna that pulls real planes out of the air. Everything downstream (computer, projector) is interchangeable. So the rule is:

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Message Liquidity Diagnostics + Evidence-Backed June Shortlist

Run 2026-05-20 against the prod read replica. Pairs with the ideation menu at docs/strategy/2026-05-18-message-liquidity-ideation.md.

TL;DR

Three SQL diagnostics against the ideation menu confirm one theme: lister responsiveness is the binding constraint on message liquidity, not seeker inquiry volume. Over half of all inquiries get no lister reply within 72h, and listers who ignore their inquiries churn ~12pts worse.

The strategic insight: that 12pt churn gap is best attacked rehabilitatively, not punitively. Making non-replying listers aware of their waiting inbox (nudge them to respond → they get hits → they see RR working → they churn less) is positive-sum for both sides. Routing demand away from non-repliers is the fallback, not the first move, because non-replying is likely a symptom of "I think RR is dead" and writing them off confirms that belief. This reframes the in-flight P1 unread-reminder work from a messaging-v

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Week of May 4 — Team plan

One-page summary. Detailed plan + checklists in docs/plans/2026-04-30-week-of-may-4-board-plan.md (in repo). Read that for the full skill invocations and per-task details.

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What we're driving

Single Q2 metric: Demand Distribution — paid rooms with ≥1 inquiry in 14d. Currently 53.1%, Q2 goal ≥60%. Everything below either moves this directly (more messages, fewer blocked messages) or unblocks future work that will move it.

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PostHog Experiment v5 — Execute Today

Goal: Get the redesigned pricing-abc-pro experiment (v5) live today. The current v4 dashboard shows wrong rates for every metric — abandonment + completion > 100% for some variants — and we cannot make a Day-14 ship decision on it. v5 fixes the underlying event instrumentation, redesigns the metric set, and resets the experiment.

Owners today:

• Mahmoud — review + merge two FE PRs ([A2] + [A3])
• Ahmed — review + merge one BE PR ([A1]), then deploy + verify + run launch
• Gaurav — available for questions; will not act on these PRs

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QA Smoke Deterministic Reset Foundation

For Claude: REQUIRED SUB-SKILL: Use superpowers:executing-plans to implement this plan task-by-task.

Problem & Why Now ← Dimension 1

Every smoke run inherits state from prior runs because QA server state is never fully reset between runs. The team has been patching symptoms for months — ownership guards for stale listing.json (PR #4283), silent-skip fallbacks when the demo user is fraud-flagged (PR #4279), test.skip() cascades when ephemeral lister state is wrong, content tests that accept "any of three states" as passing (#3655 Playwright specs). Each workaround makes the suite weaker: it proves fewer things, accepts more failure modes as "green," and hides real regressions under fake passes.

The 2026-04-21 smoke audit made the cost concrete: 4 of Megan's 7 dispositioned findings were not real app bugs but cross-run state drift. The 3 remaining required app-code fixes in PR #4279 — but those fixes only unblock the workaround