Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Phase 1 of sagedaily.io crossed the line today. A real $8.88 charge on a real card, propagated through the full subscription pipeline. Four months of work closed in one afternoon.

Deleted the leftover old frontend. Fixed a bug that leaked a local address into every page's social-preview image. Shipped the secure link between the AI agent and the Sage app, fully tested.

Then the moment that mattered: a real $8.88 charge flowed all the way through to a live subscription, confirmed on the user's screen.

Shipped

• Secure agent ↔ app link — live and fully tested
• First real charge — $8.88, end to end to a live subscription
• Seven backlogged stories — closed and verified

Got stuck

• Chased the wrong layer for two hours — the browser blamed one thing while the real cause was a hidden server error. Lesson: read the server log first

Notes

The product is shipped. The distribution isn't. The "$100 MRR" gate is still open and explicitly a different shape of work.