Changelog

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  1. ship

    Operations dashboard

    Operator-only /admin home now surfaces recent renders, recent signups, and a banner for stuck (paused/dlq) renders. /api/health gives uptime monitors (BetterUptime, Pingdom) a multi-probe view of our core services.

  2. feat

    AI Voice Rewrite

    Four buttons under the script-to-video textarea — Rewrite, Tighten, Make engaging, Continue. Powered by /api/script/rewrite (rate-limited 60/hr). No new credits — uses our existing AI script budget.

  3. feat

    Prompt A/B testing

    Foundation for testing SYSTEM_PROMPT variants. Operator can create alternates via /admin/promptdb; the script generator picks one weighted-randomly per render and outcomes (success / failure / avg credits) auto-record. Win rates surface live.

  4. feat

    Low-balance email alerts

    Daily cron pings users with under-threshold credit balances (default 50). Single email with a checkout CTA; 7-day cooldown so we don't spam.

  5. perf

    Render webhook endpoint (latency win)

    Our render provider now pushes signed webhook callbacks so renders no longer poll. An idempotency table dedupes retried deliveries. Off until the webhook secret is configured in production.

  6. perf

    Lyria 3 music + Mirelo SFX (cheaper alternates)

    Drop-in replacements for ElevenLabs music ($0.08/audio Lyria 3 Pro) and ElevenLabs SFX ($0.01/sec Mirelo). Feature-flagged via ENABLE_LYRIA_MUSIC and ENABLE_MIRELO_SFX; ElevenLabs fallback on any failure.

  7. feat

    Sync.so v3 lipsync (pro tier)

    Talking-avatar lipsync gets a quality tier. quality=fast (default) is latentsync — unchanged. quality=pro is Sync.so v3 — premium precision at $8/min.

  8. feat

    Avatar background removal

    New /api/avatar/remove-background. Default Veed (~$0.012/sec). Pro option: Bria ($0.14/sec, premium hair/edge precision).

  9. ship

    Anti-RE security pass

    DevTools no longer reveals our provider stack. /api/render/status response sanitised; storyboard manifest stripped of model slugs; AI scene clips proxied through our storage so <video src> never exposes the underlying provider.

  10. perf

    Server-side PostHog proxy

    Analytics events now route through /api/analytics on our own domain. Defeats uBlock Origin, Brave Shields, AdGuard — which were quietly dropping ~30% of pageview events.

  11. feat

    5-phase render progress

    Project page replaces the raw step_progress JSON dump with a clean Script → Visuals → Voiceover → Stitching → Polishing progress bar. Each phase has pending / active / done state.

  12. feat

    Smarter routing for video clips

    Seedance / Kling / Veo i2v clips now route through a faster, more cost-efficient path, with automatic fallback for reliability.

  13. feat

    Reviral API V3 — 37 new fields

    Public render API now accepts the full V3-style hierarchical schema (voice stability, music sync, quizzData, applyStyleTransfer, customCreationParams escape hatch, and more). Backwards-compatible.

  14. feat

    Onboarding missions — earn 120 free credits

    Five missions on the dashboard, each grants real credits when completed (account 20 + first render 30 + voice 20 + social 25 + 5 videos 25). Idempotent claims, server-verified.

  15. feat

    Daily revenue + activity digest

    08:00 SGT Telegram + email digest with yesterday's signups, paying customers, renders, success rate. Plus error-spike alerts (10+ failures/hour) and high-cost render pings (>1000 credits).

  16. feat

    Pause-and-resume render pipeline

    When a provider hits quota, renders pause silently and resume automatically within 5 minutes once balance is restored — instead of failing. Customer never sees 'render failed'.

  17. perf

    Step-cache on render resume

    Paused renders no longer re-pay for script generation + TTS on resume. Skips already-completed expensive steps via state checkpointing.

  18. feat

    Auto cover thumbnail

    Project grid thumbnails now use the curated scene 0 keyframe as <video poster>, replacing the often-ugly first frame of the rendered mp4.

  19. feat

    Base tier gets Nano Banana Pro keyframes

    Every render tier now uses NB Pro for image generation, not just Pro/Ultra. Closes the visible quality gap between tiers for ~$0.27 extra per Base render.

  20. feat

    Character verbatim re-description

    When a script defines a recurring character (Goku, Naruto, anyone with named identity), the exact description is injected into every scene's keyframe prompt — preventing face/outfit drift across scenes.

  21. feat

    Script LLM upgrades

    Hook-as-question allowed (756k-video industry analysis: questions win), 7 archetypal framings, 15 named cinematography moves, brand pronunciation phonetics, scope-narrowing for long topics, proven 4-beat ad structure.