Saturday, June 6, 2026

A name came back to life — half engineering, half deciding what a thing is.

The personal tracker grew up into a real product today: ElevateDaily, revived from a retired name, with a landing page live on the internet by nightfall. Underneath it, a multi-tenant foundation — and a big run of catalog work on the gasket app.

Shipped

• ElevateDaily is back — converted the little training tracker into a real product (the Body/Training module) and put a landing page live at elevatedaily.io
• Multi-tenant foundation — stood up sign-in and a member-scoped data layer so the app can hold many people's data safely, with authorization enforced at the database seam
• Goal-weight forecast — added a trends view that projects your trajectory toward a goal, picking the right model from the real data instead of hardcoding anything
• Gasket profiles, first-class — turned gasket profiles into a proper catalog domain end-to-end (an identify tool, pricing-by-profile, stock linkage, a data-quality score), all test-first
• Accounts + chains — company → locations → contacts → jobs roll-up for the gasket business, so franchises group under their parent brand
• Stopped leaking test data into the live DB — the test suite had quietly left dozens of fake rows in production; isolated it onto a dedicated test database with a fail-loud guard
• Docs + auto-close standard — every product now gets a sibling docs site of its own, plus an action that closes the matching tickets when work merges

Notes

Reviving a retired brand for a new product is a strange kind of build — part engineering, part deciding what the thing even is. But the win that mattered most was unglamorous: discovering the test suite had been writing into the live database for who knows how long, and shutting that door for good.