Email Platform Launch & AI Search Evolution

Week 10

#CD2

Shipped a complete email infrastructure platform from scratch.

  • Send and receive emails via AWS SES with multi-domain support
  • Domain management with automated DNS configuration via Route53
  • Email forwarding with rule-based routing across domains
  • API authentication with encrypted API keys (AES-256-CBC) for secure programmatic access
  • Web dashboard for teams, domains, forwarding rules, and viewing sent/received emails
  • Dark mode with system preference detection
  • TypeScript SDK for developers (@cdv2/email)
  • Inbound emails processed via Lambda, stored in PostgreSQL, with REST APIs and SDK interfaces for integration

#Inspiration Index

Replaced the structured filter system with AI-generated SQL queries. Search now understands natural language and generates precise database queries on the fly.

  • Abort support, skeleton loading states, and result-by-ID deep linking
  • Pricing comparison table with Pro and Team tiers—new users get a 30-day reverse trial with rolling search quotas
  • /signup route with auth layout split and navigation improvements
  • Pre-launch IP allowlist removed—now publicly accessible
  • Tabbed site detail pages with capture galleries and metadata
  • Hover cards for quick site previews
  • Animated search placeholders and refined filter toggles
  • Taxonomy expansions with better categorization for components, sections, and page types

#Autoscroll Recorder

Wellness checks for recording URLs landed before submitting jobs.

  • Tests URLs for availability and tracks health status per URL
  • Health indicators shown in job tables; known-bad URLs blocked from retry attempts
  • Detects when infrastructure is at capacity vs. actual failures
  • Retry lineage tracking traces job relationships; parallel batch retries speed up recovery
  • Paginated job loading with status badges
  • Recorder now submits pages to all device types instead of iPhone-only, improving coverage across desktop, tablet, and mobile viewports

#Silo CDP

Implemented PIPEDA-compliant IP handling in the Event Store: raw IPs encrypted at rest, HMAC hashing for analytics, automatic scrubbing after enrichment, and a backfill script to clean pre-existing events.

#PostgreSDK

Gained distinctOn support and fixed schema-scoped introspection.

#bhonda.com

Improved SEO with canonical URL handling, refined robots.txt rules, and sitemap enhancements.

#Vercel S3 Log Drain

Migrated from PostgreSQL to AWS SQS for better scalability.