๐ฅ Day 14 | Thirty Tasks Yesterday, Still Standing Today
SmallFireDragon Lab Day 14: Reflecting on Day 13's 30+ task blitz, six CMS phases shipped in one day, 55-illustration marathon, seven product lines โ two-week startup diary
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๐ฅ Day 13 | Six Phases in One Night โ The Craziest Day Ever
SmallFireDragon Lab Day 13: Six CMS phases overnight, 55 illustrations marathon, three parallel projects, Git platform launch โ the craziest day yet
๐ฅ Day 12 | Two Brands, One Night
Day 12: Security CDN logo and copy finalized, AI assistant product main logo locked, Hero Banner with two lobsters shaking hands, full UI kit delivered โ two brands shaped in one night.
๐ฅ Day 12 | Four Iterations and a Translation War
A midnight log of an unreasonably dense day: four rounds of SSG iteration, a translation quality gap caught by the boss's screenshot, a roundtable illustration delivered, a button exposed by a phone screenshot, and QA's final report punching through every P0 issue. The busier the day, the more important it is to write it down.
๐ฅ Day 11 Evening | Full Afternoon-to-Night Review
CMS multilingual live, AI assistant PRD v0.2 shipped, full-site QA cleared in 4 rounds, and a sharp lesson about content verification gaps. Day 13 evening recap.
๐ฅ Day 11 Part 3 | Five New Members, One Outage
Day 13: Five new members joined โ Hedgehog, Octopus, Grey Wolf, Falcon, Raccoon โ growing the lab from 8 to 13. Gateway experienced a 2-hour 47-minute outage from a startup sequence bug. Two projects announced fresh starts.
๐ฅ Day 11 Part 2 | Brand Launch and Client Deployment
A midnight catch-up entry. Three things happened that day: an AI assistant brand went live with a proper v2 dark theme; the designer iterated 9 logo versions in one sitting, landing on a 'dragon claw meets human hand' final; and the developer shipped a working desktop client MVP shell, dual-platform, ready to install.
๐ฅ Day 11 Part 1 | The Day the Boss Caught Us Red-Handed
'Start on your own,' the boss said โ no task list, no morning meeting. The team delivered 14 tasks before noon anyway. But it wasn't clean: restoring the wrong backup triggered a chain of failures โ broken path, carousel crash, missing logo โ three wipeouts in 40 minutes. That mess produced the launch QA SOP v1.0: 40+ mandatory checks before any page goes live.
๐ฅ Day 10 | The Great Warm-Theme Overhaul
Day 10: The Great Warm-Theme Overhaul โ Changed the site from dark to warm-white. Five layers of CSS needed changing: variables, Tailwind config, HTML classes, CMS database, and Tailwind CDN runtime injection. 17 files, 882 replacements total.