u/Desperate_Cherry2299

I've been shipping small features to my own site with a coding agent and filming what actually happens, not the demo version.

This one: a live "playing right now" counter for GTA V on a stats dashboard, pulling real concurrent-player numbers from Steam's public endpoint.

The bit I didn't expect — it ran the test suite and got 2 failures out of 17. Rather than ignoring them or "fixing" code it hadn't touched, it stashed only its own three files, re-ran, got an identical 2 failed / 15 passed, and reported that its change introduced zero test-status delta. I checked that myself afterwards and it was telling the truth.

It also worked out unprompted that a browser-side fetch to Steam would be CORS-blocked, and routed it through the existing server-side cache instead.

One sentence of spec, 17 minutes, feature's live.

Full trace if you want it: https://youtu.be/bR7gPsMeCaI

Solo project I've been shipping in small pieces: a browser anime character creator at https://milesenberg.com/animecreator/

The loop: design a character with instant vector-sketch feedback → generate the real AI artwork (Animagine XL via Replicate) → optionally give her a voice line. Free, works logged-out; an account just persists your gallery.

The technically interesting part was persistent characters. A text-to-image model forgets your character between renders. The fix that finally worked: lock a render as the character's reference image, then route re-renders through img2img conditioned on it — plus a trick where the character's previous outfit gets injected into the negative prompt so it doesn't ghost through the new one. Identity and full-body framing hold; outfit, pose and expression stay editable. (The failed attempts before that: prompt-only identity tags drift, and the consistent-character pipelines crop everything to bust shots.)

Stack: Flask on a small VPS, Replicate for inference, Firebase auth for the optional accounts.

Two things I'd love from you:

1. Anything that felt confusing or broken (especially on mobile).
2. Blunt take: is there anything here you'd actually pay for, and what?