Weekly development

What is new in PLAYGRND

A public view of what we actually ship each week. Features are the primary signal, with technical versions kept as a verifiable trail.

Technical status Web v298 · API v135
Features this week 13 2026-W29 · 13–19 July 2026
Shipped features recorded 38 Weeks of visible development: 11
Weeks of visible development 11 2025-W45 → 2026-W29
2026-W29 13–19 July 2026

WhatsApp AI becomes a real tool

Web v258–v298 · 41 versions API v96–v135 · 40 versions
  • OpenRouter adapter with a low-cost router and a quality vision model for match sheets.
  • Match sheets gain image gating, Croatian dates, caption hints, roster validation, confidence, cost, and audit.
  • WhatsApp capability registry, HELP command, and this weekly changelog.
  • AI intent for WhatsApp images and atomic team or league logo updates with permission checks and audit.
  • AI search ranks players by league or team, tolerates name typos, and returns a short shareable link with audit.
  • WhatsApp text and voice can draft a new season, but create it only after permission checks and explicit confirmation.
  • Personalized WhatsApp login replies and an automatic secure link for previously unseen numbers.
  • Superadmin AI token and cost usage per user, Redis rate limiting, and a manual per-account AI switch.
  • The WhatsApp assistant stays strictly on PLAYGRND, answers greetings briefly, and does not answer questions outside the product.
  • A curated PLAYGRND FAQ answers natural questions without another AI call, a vector database, or generated guesses.
  • Signed-in users gain web AI chat, while admins gain league-season match-sheet upload and WEB/WHATSAPP usage reporting.
  • WhatsApp HELP is shorter and shows organizer options only to users who actually manage a league.
  • Faster player view rankings and more consistent public profiles and home experience.
2026-W28 6–12 July 2026

Admin, design, pitch, and AI pilot

Web v149–v257 · 109 versions API v54–v95 · 42 versions
  • New desktop and mobile navigation shell, redesigned home, and clearer public profiles.
  • Scoped organization, league, venue, court, and team editing with R2 images and audit.
  • Player view counts, Redis aggregation, and Most viewed ranking.
  • First WhatsApp AI match-sheet pilot and public PLAYGRND pitch for organizers and investors.
2026-W27 29 June – 5 July 2026

Identity, claims, and organizer foundation

Web v50–v148 · 99 versions API v16–v53 · 38 versions
  • WhatsApp passwordless login, profile completion, and existing-player claims.
  • Superadmin and scoped roles, claim queue, session management, and audit log.
  • Fast async WhatsApp webhook with Redis deduplication and no raw hot-path storage.
  • Profile hub and foundations of the private organizer console.
2026-W26 22–28 June 2026

Production stabilization

Web v11–v49 · 39 versions API v6–v15 · 10 versions
  • Hetzner becomes the stable production origin while HP remains the local worker and control plane.
  • Scrape and ingest flow is separated from production with verifiable archives and a private Go API.
  • Deploy, Redis, health, and operational guardrails were hardened.
2026-W23 1–7 June 2026

Current production counter begins

Web v1–v10 · 10 versions API v1–v5 · 5 versions
  • Initial Hetzner release model established with separate API and web versions.
  • Systemd, Caddy, PostgreSQL, Redis, and GitHub Actions form a reproducible production path.
Foundations before the current counter
2026-W04 19–25 January 2026

Search and season views

  • Unified SSR search across players, teams, leagues, and venues.
  • Team tabs and team pages within a concrete league season.
2026-W03 12–18 January 2026

Sun City history becomes product

  • Matches, venues, players, identities, and historical seasons gain public SSR pages.
  • Offline-first ingest, parity checks, stable users, and safe duplicate merging.
  • Player statistics and team logos aligned with source data.
2026-W02 5–11 January 2026

Seasons, standings, and split environments

  • Separate dev/prod environments, R2 buckets, and safer deploy/sync flow.
  • Season URLs, standings, scorers, and controlled data refresh.
2025-W48 24–30 November 2025

Ingest and local production parity

  • Idempotent Sun City ingest, deterministic JSON, and historical capture tooling.
  • macOS blue/green local setup, sockets, Redis, and backup automation.
2025-W47 17–23 November 2025

Football data model

  • Organizations, leagues, teams, venues, courts, cups, and matches gain a stable model.
  • R2 assets, presigned uploads, backups, CLI, and first public listing pages.