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Public decisions log

Decisions

Every strategic, tactical, and operational decision we've made, with reasoning and citations. Most companies hide their internal debates. We publish ours.

ID Decision Status
S1 Sequenced launch (weeklyescapes → mistfare → pointssearch) Active
S2 Family Slowmad as secondary persona Active
S3 TikTok as Channel 1 (1-2 high-quality videos/week) Active
S4 No cold-email host outreach (legal/brand risk) Active
S5 Cross-platform comparison engine (Phase 2) Roadmap
S6 Watchlist as v1 of mistfare Active
S7 "Anywhere" search as v1 of weeklyescapes Active
S8 Multi-passenger optimization in pointssearch v1 Active
S9 Real-time public stats counters Active
S10 Auth: Clerk + social OAuth + passkeys Active
S11 B2B Corporate Travel Partnership (Year 2+) Roadmap
S12 Frontend: Astro 6 hosted on AWS S3+CloudFront Active
S13 Payments: Paddle as Merchant of Record Active
S14 Pricing: free tier + $49/yr Pro + B2B Year 2+ Active
S15 Subscriber Stipend (sponsor-funded giveaways) Year 1.5+
S16 Two-track inventory (consumer = all sources, B2B = policy-compliant only) Active

How decisions get made

Every meaningful decision goes through a research process: minimum 3 working examples, minimum 3 failing examples, pros/cons matrix, and a Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve framework with pivot triggers. Anti-pattern we explicitly avoid: agreeing with the first positive sign we see.

The full reasoning, sources, and citations for each decision are documented internally. This page is the public index of major committed decisions. For methodology, see /research.

Methodology: /research  ·  Build progress: /building  ·  Recent shipped changes: /changelog