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.
- Sellavie.ai
- Early Build
- AI Commerce
- Full Stack
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.