Sellavie.ai v4 beta: the first real product snapshot
The earliest useful Sellavie commit: backend and frontend changing together, already pushing toward business workflow rather than chatbot demo.
The repo technically starts on January 28, but the earliest useful product snapshot is January 31.
That commit is named "v4 beta - all features" and it is not small: backend and frontend changing heavily together, with hundreds of lines across the FastAPI backend and React app.
What the early history says
Sellavie did not start as a tiny single-prompt demo.
By the end of January it was already trying to be a product: backend behavior, frontend dashboard behavior, AI chat testing, CORS fixes, database table fixes, and model-name fixes all show up in the same early window.
That is messy, but real products often start messy. The v4 label is also telling — there were versions before this one. This was not a clean greenfield build; it was a product that had already been through iterations by the time this history starts.
The direction was already there
The January phase matters because it shows the direction early:
- AI chat was only one piece
- backend and frontend moved together
- deployment health and CORS already mattered
- the product was pushing toward business workflow, not only conversation
The shape of the product at the end — tenancy, billing, multi-channel integration, mobile operations, payment state — was already implied in the early decisions. That is the kind of thing that is much easier to see in hindsight, but it is also what separates a product that scales from one that gets rewritten.