Changelog

Things we shipped, in reverse order.

Release notes for TimeBaQ. We try to ship something useful most weeks; this is the receipt. Older entries are at the bottom.

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1. ✦

   2026-05-08 · v0.1.x

   Marketing site polish — honest comparison page, safe-use guide, founder roadmap.

   • New New /compare page with honest tool-by-tool reads of Simplify, LazyApply, JobCopilot, Wobo, and Jobright. Including a "when to pick someone else" section.
   • New New /safe-use guide: per-platform daily-limit recommendations, a 5-day ramp-up plan, what to do if a platform flags you, and an export-your-logs trail for appeal evidence.
   • New New /about page with origin, principles, numbers, and a public roadmap.
   • New New /limits page consolidating roadmap items, deliberate non-features, and known sharp edges in one honest list.
   • Polish Homepage rewritten around the "apply more, tailored every time" pitch instead of generic interview-prep copy.
   • Polish Custom 404 page with a confused mascot, animated paper drift, and useful onward links.
   • Infra Marketing site migrated from Cloudflare Pages to a Git-connected Cloudflare Worker — auto-builds in ~1m 45s on every push to main.
2. ✦

   2026-05-01 · v0.1.0-rc

   Stripe-direct billing, Customer Portal, and the founders-deal lock.

   • New Stripe checkout live for Starter, Pro, and Power tiers. Founders-deal price IDs auto-attach for the first 100 customers per tier.
   • New Stripe Customer Portal wired into Account → Subscription. Update card, cancel, view invoices, change plan — all from inside the app.
   • New License-key issuance via the auth Worker → email through Resend. License → JWT exchange validates on every AI call.
   • New Free tier ships with 25 applications/month, 1 platform of your choice, and 10 AI cover letters/month. No credit card required.
   • New 14-day no-questions-asked refund policy live. Cancel-anytime in two clicks.
   • Infra Per-tier daily AI quotas enforced in the auth Worker (free 100, starter 1500, pro 5000, power 20000) with HTTP 402 + upgrade-modal handoff.
   • Infra Custom domain timebaq.app live on Cloudflare Registrar; api.timebaq.app and webhooks.timebaq.app fronting the auth and billing Workers.
3. ✦

   2026-04-28

   CAPTCHA stack consolidated; AI provider chain rebuilt.

   • Infra CapSolver is now the sole paid CAPTCHA solver. Removed dead code paths for 2Captcha, Anti-Captcha, and the local YOLO/CLIP solver — only the path that ever ran in production survives.
   • New Settings page now shows a single CapSolver API-key field; backend /api/settings/captcha-keys accepts only capsolver_api_key.
   • New Invisible Gemini AI through a hosted proxy by default — no API key for users to manage. BYOK toggle in Settings switches to user-supplied OpenAI/Gemini keys for Power tier.
   • Infra Default model: gemini-2.5-flash-lite. Provider chain: Gemini → OpenAI fallback. Ollama fallback removed per user direction.
   • Fix Selector fixes for ZipRecruiter and Glassdoor screening-question forms (multi-step radio groups were occasionally being skipped).
4. ✦

   2026-04

   Tauri shell ships; PySide6 desktop retired.

   • New TimeBaQ now runs as a native Tauri app on macOS, Windows, and Linux — a much lighter footprint than the old PySide6 build.
   • New Auto-updater wired with signed releases via the Tauri updater plugin. Updates land via the system tray, not a fresh download.
   • New Python sidecar architecture — FastAPI backend compiled with PyInstaller, launched by Tauri at startup over localhost. No Node runtime overhead, no cloud dependency for the application loop.
   • New System tray integration with Start / Pause / Stop controls per platform.
   • Polish Application analytics dashboard rebuilt: counts by platform, role, and company; success-rate timeseries; failure-reason breakdown.
5. ✦

   2026-03

   Anti-detection and CAPTCHA layer come online.

   • New Driver router landed: Patchright as the default Chromium stack on all seven platforms, with Nodriver (being sunset) and Camoufox kept as per-platform fallbacks.
   • New Cloudflare Turnstile, hCaptcha, and reCAPTCHA all solving in the background via CapSolver.
   • New Q&A library with intelligent caching: screening answers reused across applications, AI generates anything new, results re-cached.
   • New Per-job AI cover letters wired into the application flow, with banned-phrase filters to keep drafts out of generic-AI territory.
6. ✦ Still here, still shipping.