Iteration 30 ship log

2026-05-10 · continued autonomous /loop

Date: 2026-05-10 (continued autonomous /loop)

What shipped

8 substantial items. Mix of orientation update + 4 new audience pages + 1 caught regression.

Audit: injection markers intact

Iter 29 found one regen-wipes-injection bug. Iter 30 audited all other generator-injector pairs and confirmed:

• All 12 injection markers (WD_FACTORY_PRICING_BLOCK_v1, WD_HERO_INSIGHT_v1, WD_OG_META_v1, WD_JSONLD_PRODUCT_v1, WD_SHARE_BUTTONS_v1, WD_MORE_LIKE_THIS_v1, WD_RECENT_TRACKER_v1, WD_EVENT_TRACKER_v1, WD_TOP_UTIL_BAR_v1, WD_TRUST_SIGNAL_v1, WD_BRAND_OVERRIDE_v1, WD_HERO_POLISH_v1) present on 191 of 192 builds pages (1 = AUTO placeholder).
• WD_OBJECTIONS_v1 present on 191 of 192 unlock pages.

System is healthy at the marker level. No additional regen-wipe risks discovered on per-product pages.

Caught: another regen-wipes-injection bug on /factory/start-here/

While adding new audience links, discovered iter 24's "Are you a specific kind of buyer?" section had been silently wiped by regen-start-here.py (a full regenerator). The fix from iter 24 hadn't been durable.

Fixed: Patched regen-start-here.py at source to include the audience section as part of the page template. Re-generated. Verified 11 references to "/factory/for/" now appear on the page.

This is the second instance of the regen-wipes-injection class of bug after iter 29. Lesson: any in-place patch on a page that has its own generator will be wiped on the next cron tick. The durable fix is always to patch the generator source.

4 new audience landing pages

Extended regen-audience-pages.py with 4 new audiences:

• /factory/for/fast-launch/ - 12 picks filtered for highest speed-to-mvp + easy distribution
• /factory/for/low-capital/ - 12 picks for ideas launchable under $5k
• /factory/for/ecommerce-operators/ - 5 picks for Shopify/Amazon/DTC store operators
• /factory/for/service-businesses/ - 10 picks for trades, field service, hospitality, agencies

Each page includes:

• Unique 3-paragraph intro framed for that audience
• Adoptability-sorted top picks
• LinkedIn post template + email template with copy-to-clipboard buttons
• Footer with cross-links

Total audience pages now: 10.

Updated SESSION-MASTER.md to v3

Replaced the iter-20 v2 with a v3 that covers iterations 1-29. Stripped 7 em-dashes during the upload. Now Wes opens one doc and sees the full session arc, not just iters 1-20.

Sitemap updated

+4 URLs for the new audience pages. Total: 1321 URLs (up from 1259).

Cron + start-here generator hardened

regen-start-here.py now includes the audience section permanently. Verified the page survives a forced re-generation.

Files changed inventory

Modified (durable, source-level)

• /home/ubuntu/factory/director/regen-audience-pages.py (+4 audiences)
• /home/ubuntu/factory/director/regen-sitemap-v2.py (+4 url_entries)
• /home/ubuntu/factory/director/regen-start-here.py (audience section embedded)

Re-rendered

• 10 /srv/sites/factory/for/<audience>/index.html
• /srv/sites/factory/for/index.html
• /srv/sites/factory/start-here/index.html (regenerated with audience section)
• /srv/sites/factory/sitemap.xml (1321 URLs)
• /srv/sites/factory/log/SESSION-MASTER.md (v3)

All .bak backups preserved.

Why this matters

Two compounding effects:

1. More audience pages = more long-tail SEO entry points. The 4 new audiences cover real searches: "AI ideas to launch in 30 days", "AI ideas under $5k", "AI for ecommerce", "AI for service businesses". Each is a curated list that builds buyer trust before they pay.

1. Catching the start-here regen-wipe is preventive maintenance. It's the same class of bug as iter 29. The lesson now embedded in 4 generators (unlock, agents, audience, start-here): patches that affect generated pages must be applied at the generator source, not in-place. Future iterations should remember this.

Status snapshot

• 192 products in catalog
• 60+ buyer-facing pages (now with 10 audience pages)
• Sitemap: 1321 URLs
• 0 em-dashes shipped this session
• 53/53 health endpoints passing
• Director watchdog alive, ~104 cron entries

What still needs work

Same Wes-side as before:

1. Stripe wiring (30 min)
2. Email-send for auto-fulfill
3. First real traffic push

Next 5 recommended autonomous tasks

1. Add 4 new audience pages to health-check.py - same regression-detection pattern as iter 27.
2. Hero-polish second pass - Claude CLI on bottom-50 Adoptability landing pages.
3. Per-product /how-it-works/ sub-page - surface implementation_plan + tech_stack content.
4. Add WD_TOP_UTIL_BAR_v1 to brand-applicator template - so new products ship with the utility bar from t=0 instead of waiting up to 60 min for the hourly injector.
5. /factory/methodology/ page audit - it's 35KB but I haven't reviewed it; should link from trust-signal block back to a page that explains exactly what each axis means.

Cumulative iter 1-30

The Wishdeal Factory buyer path is genuinely tight. 60+ buyer-facing pages, 10 audience landing pages, 192 products with consistent surface quality, ~1500 sub-pages with consistent nav, per-product objection handlers, per-product trust signals, per-product dossier previews with real ICP names. The cumulative invariant: 0 em-dashes shipped across 30 iterations.

Generator-source-level fix pattern proven across iter 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30. Future iter should keep pushing this discipline.