Release Notes — What's Shipped | Auctioneer Platform

Release notes

Marketing site foundation — 7–9 Aug 2026 (shipped)

Rebuilt the public site on its own design system, matched to the product's type and palette, and folded every separate page into one continuous scroll.

Restructured theme, fonts and hero to match the product's design language — 2026-08-07
Rebuilt on an editorial design system with its own News and Journal — 2026-08-09
Interactive 3D hero, visible cards, scroll progress bar — 2026-08-09
Premium light palette, rebranded nav, ambient particles, horizontal strips — 2026-08-09
Stripped the gold wash for a true pearl-white ground — 2026-08-09
Mouse-reactive particles, Apply folded into Home, blank-page navigation fixed — 2026-08-09
Buttons into the hero, FAQ / Team / Trial / Compare content — 2026-08-09
Platform, News, Journal and About folded into one page — 2026-08-09
QA pass: shop feature, nav order, card animations, WhatsApp widget — 2026-08-09
Matched the product's actual font and palette exactly — 2026-08-09

Plans, content and reach — 9 Aug 2026 (shipped)

Turned the site into something that sells: a real pricing ladder, fundraisers, the app moved onto the main domain, and Xperto answering questions.

Plan limits updated, Free Trial tier added, Stripe unified across plans — 2026-08-09
FAQ moved to page end, News nav highlighting and empty news scrape fixed — 2026-08-09
Launch-pricing discounts, honest team copy, wider SEO coverage — 2026-08-09
Xperto AI plan-recommendation widget, regional greeting fixed — 2026-08-09
Core marketplace served from the main domain at /app — 2026-08-09
Fundraiser campaigns with targets, running totals and a live example — 2026-08-09
Xperto / WhatsApp widget stacking matched to the product app — 2026-08-09
Xperto icon sizing, Login link and a real one-click demo — 2026-08-09

Visual craft and the 3D hero — 9–12 Aug 2026 (shipped)

A long, iterative pass on the hero — a gem, then a star field, then an interactive robot — plus beam-bordered cards across the site. Several reverts; the record keeps them.

Installed the ui-ux-pro-max design skill suite — 2026-08-09
Added framer-motion for later animation work — 2026-08-09
Rotating beam border and 3D tilt on the plan cards — 2026-08-09
Beam-border treatment extended across the site — 2026-08-10
Hero 3D shape sizing fixed at zoom, redesigned as a lit gem — 2026-08-10
Gem replaced with drifting layered light-lines and a star field — 2026-08-10
Hero top spacing tightened, backdrop simplified — 2026-08-10
Interactive Spline robot added to the hero — 2026-08-11
Robot / lot-card overlap fixed by capping the robot to a top band — 2026-08-11
Reverted to full spread behind the card, per feedback — 2026-08-11
Robot's head cleared from the lot card, zoomed out — 2026-08-11
Non-overlap made structural instead of a guessed offset — 2026-08-12
Hero restructured — robot made the dominant visual — 2026-08-12
Robot canvas expanded to cover the whole hero — 2026-08-12
Illustrative lot card removed, copy top-anchored over the robot — 2026-08-12
Robot scaled down 50% — read oversized at normal zoom — 2026-08-12
Hero section shrunk instead of scaling the canvas — 2026-08-12
Robot nudged right to push the Spline badge toward the clipped edge — 2026-08-12
Shift changed to 20% of hero width rather than fixed pixels — 2026-08-12
Pulled back left — 20% clipped the robot's right arm — 2026-08-12
Robot enabled on mobile, scaled to fit — 2026-08-12
Reverted: robot hidden on mobile again — 2026-08-12

Platform hardening — 10–11 Aug 2026 (shipped)

Groundwork that doesn't show: a demo/live data split so the platform can be shown off without faking it, faster cold starts, and accessibility fixes.

Boot loader so a cold start shows a spinner, not a blank screen — 2026-08-10
'Go live' reset: clears demo data, keeps one tenant as an empty shell — 2026-08-10
Permanent demo/live dataset with a demo-only bidding sandbox — 2026-08-10
Shared demo login renamed to demo@xauctioneerapp.com — 2026-08-10
50 schema-migration round trips collapsed into one pipelined call — 2026-08-10
Static assets and robots.txt served without touching the database — 2026-08-11
Accessibility: contrast, heading order, duplicate links — 2026-08-11

Payments and live content — 13–15 Aug 2026 (shipped)

Stripe for tenant storefronts, and the homepage showing genuine live listings instead of a mockup.

Journal restored, real News content, Live Auctions section added — 2026-08-13
Stripe payments for tenant storefronts — 2026-08-13
Photo-less listings excluded from the Live Auctions strip — 2026-08-15
Live Auctions card titles clamped to two lines — 2026-08-15
Explicit height on the auction card media box — 2026-08-15

Audit and remediation — 16 Aug 2026 (shipped)

A full QA pass found 22 issues across security, SEO and UX. All were fixed in one pass, alongside Google sign-in and a demo that works in every country.

All 22 audit findings resolved — stored XSS, unbounded bids, canonical tags, rate limiting, email verification — 2026-08-16
Google sign-in, verified server-side against Google's JWKS — 2026-08-16
Demo account made to work in every country, priced in local currency — 2026-08-16
Live Auctions strip fixed — was stacking vertically instead of scrolling — 2026-08-20

UX polish and a better assistant — 20–21 Aug 2026 (shipped)

Readability and contrast fixes across the site, a graphical buyer/seller journey, and Xperto moved onto a much stronger model.

Signed-in visitors redirected away from login/register; nav contrast raised — 2026-08-20
Section eyebrow labels darkened and enlarged site-wide — 2026-08-20
Graphical buyer/seller journey, real product screenshot, visible form fields — 2026-08-20
Xperto switched to Groq (gpt-oss-120b), new icon, widget overlap fixed — 2026-08-20
Xperto renders markdown; mobile chat overlap and iOS zoom fixed — 2026-08-21
Pricing link added to the nav — 2026-08-21
Demo prices converted per visitor country; contact details and founder profile added — 2026-08-21
Consumer marketplace given its own section and entry point — 2026-08-21

Trust and settlement — 21 Aug 2026 (in-progress)

The current phase. A settlement review found that a sale could be declared complete by one side alone, sellers could never earn a reputation, and buyers had no way to report anything. All three are now fixed.

Settlement and trust architecture review — 8 findings, 3 critical — 2026-08-21
Two-sided completion: both parties confirm, with a 7-day auto-close — 2026-08-21
Buyer↔seller reviews — the first thing that can actually write a seller's rating — 2026-08-21
Disputes: either side can report a problem, with an evidence trail and an admin queue — 2026-08-21
Tiered verification — email, phone, government ID — replacing a hand-flipped flag — 2026-08-21
Seller cards show what was verified and how many sales are behind the rating — 2026-08-21
Checkout copy no longer directs people off-platform — 2026-08-21
Safety section added to the marketing site, including what we don't claim — 2026-08-21

What's next — Planned (planned)

Ordered by what unblocks what. Payment rails come before escrow because escrow needs a licensed partner, and everything above needs a recorded payment to build on.

Platform-level payment rails for the consumer marketplace — Raast first on cost —
Escrow through a licensed EMI partner, with release on delivery confirmation —
Standardised inspection condition reports attached to listings —
Delivery confirmation from logistics partners as an automatic release trigger —
Published protection policy with a stated response window —