Product blog
Product blog
Product updates, field guides, and field notes—each with links to docs and the hub where relevant. High-level milestones also appear on the changelog.
Topic
ReadField guide · Jun 2, 2026
One Next.js app, many sections: routing a hub-and-spoke portfolio from a single codebase
How a single App Router codebase serves an entire multi-product hub, and why that beats a constellation of separate apps when one person maintains it.
- One App Router project
- components/sections pattern
- Shared layout, metadata, sitemap
Engineering
ReadField guide · Jun 2, 2026
Building a marketplace-ready product image pack
A creator playbook for turning product cutouts into consistent, marketplace-ready image packs with auto-naming and embedded metadata.
- One-click curated export bundles
- Auto-naming + embedded alt text
- Right format per destination
NSS Background Remover
ReadField guide · Jun 2, 2026
Durable saves without a backend war: IndexedDB, account sync, and when you finally add login
An engineering field note on persistence for browser tools: in-memory loss, local IndexedDB saves, the jump to account-backed durability, and matching the saving model to the product rather than the fashion.
- IndexedDB local saves
- Accounts add cross-device durability
- Match saving to the product
Novus Stream Solutions
ReadField guide · Jun 2, 2026
Ghost-mannequin product photos without a studio
What the ghost-mannequin effect is, why it converts for apparel, the front-plus-inner-neck two-shot method, and how to composite it without a studio.
- The invisible-mannequin look
- Front + inner-neck two-shot
- Composited free, on-device
NSS Background Remover
ReadField guide · Jun 2, 2026
A cash buffer and emergency fund for business owners
Why owners need buffers more than employees, sizing a business reserve and a personal one, where to keep the money, and how to build it from irregular income. Educational, not personalized financial advice.
- Why owners need bigger buffers
- Sizing business vs personal reserves
- Building from irregular income
Novus Stream Solutions (hub)
ReadField guide · Jun 2, 2026
Ad placement that respects the reader
A practical, reader-first guide to ad placement, density, and reserving space so layout never shifts.
- Content above ads
- Reserve every slot
- Never near buttons
Novus Stream Solutions (hub)
ReadField guide · Jun 1, 2026
Code-as-content: why our blog is hundreds of TypeScript objects, not a CMS
The case for treating content as code — version-controlled, type-checked, deployed with the app — instead of running a content management system.
- No CMS, no database
- Posts are typed TS objects
- Content ships with the code
Engineering
ReadField guide · Jun 1, 2026
Type-safe content: how a DocSlug union and structured sections stop broken posts
How a few lines of TypeScript types make broken links and malformed posts impossible to ship, not just unlikely.
- A union type for doc links
- Structured sections, not raw HTML
- Broken content = build failure
Engineering
ReadField guide · Jun 1, 2026
Shipping a model registry you can trust: auditing against Hugging Face
An engineering note on auditing an AI model registry for honesty — verified IDs, real sizes and licenses, and classical baselines labelled as such.
- Audited vs HF API + Transformers.js v3
- Five unverified IDs replaced
- Classical baselines labelled honestly
Stack & engineering
ReadField guide · Jun 1, 2026
Making a vertical music visualizer for TikTok & Reels
The 9:16 frame, safe zones for platform UI, designing for sound-off with captions, the first-second hook, and exporting a vertical visualizer that works on TikTok and Reels.
- 9:16 + safe zones
- Hook the first second
- Captions for sound-off
Novus Visualizers