Notes from the Saytu team

What we learn building a Live2D character that answers preorder, sizing and authenticity questions on anime storefronts.

108 unread

We published 108 articles nobody read

They were written by a model, posted through our own API, and made public on arrival. One of them had no text in it. Here is the count, and what we changed.

Build logSeptember 21, 20264 min read

Draft vs live

A draft should never take the live answer down

Asking for a draft of an FAQ entry quietly unpublished the one the store was already giving. A write that sets a status is a visibility change.

Build logSeptember 21, 20264 min read

When every score ties, the ranking is a coin flip

Keyword scores tie constantly, and a tie handed the order to whatever the database returned. The fix is deliberately not an improvement.

Build logSeptember 21, 20263 min read

One store's reply

A turn id is whatever the client says it is

A retry handed one store the reply written for another. The key was a string the browser chose, used across a collection that spans every tenant.

Build logSeptember 21, 20264 min read

What it keeps

Three windows, and what the assistant is allowed to keep

A transcript for a day, the subjects for a month, personal data anonymised at ninety. Three numbers that used to disagree, and why there will not be a fourth.

Build logSeptember 21, 20264 min read

Uploading your own Live2D model, and what actually stops you

Five ways a model folder fails on the way into a storefront. Two of them raise nothing at all, and the other three blame the wrong thing.

Live2DSeptember 21, 20265 min read