CHILDHOOD — changelog · 2026-05-13

P0 polish pass — "sketch to real product"

What changed

Age picker + 7-letter library

Added a horizontal pill-row age picker (ages 5, 7, 8, 10, 12, 15, 17)
Today's letter (age 7) fetched live from S3 (note.json) on every load
6 letters hard-coded inline with realistic prose in Harnoor's voice at each age
Switching ages re-renders the full letter view (salutation, body, doodles, audio, share card) without a page reload

Voice quality — confirmed ElevenLabs

Lambda gen_childhood already uses eleven_turbo_v2_5 via innerverse/elevenlabs-api-key + innerverse/elevenlabs-voice-childhood — no change needed
MP3s confirmed present for 2026-05-09 through 2026-05-13 at innerverse-apps/childhood/harnoor/{date}/letter.mp3
Audio player upgraded: scrubber bar, elapsed time display, stop button, ElevenLabs badge
Modal (shoebox letters) has its own independent audio player

Reply ritual

Textarea: "write back to your N-year-old self"
Save to localStorage keyed by age — persists across sessions
"Get their reply (Pro)" button: shows "coming after launch" toast — Stripe placeholder

Share card

Dynamic headline: "today my N-year-old self wrote me a letter"
Watercolor bleed background (CSS radial-gradient)
IG-story-friendly quote extraction (first meaty sentence ≤100 chars)
Copy-to-clipboard + native Web Share API

Tier visibility

Free: 1 letter/day at age 7 (today)
Pro: full library access, AI replies, custom age picker — shown inline but non-blocking
Early access section preserved (free during launch, email capture wired)

Sticky bottom CTA

Fixed bar: streak count (localStorage), "don't break it", gold "Go Pro" button
Streak auto-increments daily on open

PWA manifest

<link rel="manifest" href="/manifest.json"> added
theme-color meta set to --paper (#f5ecd9)

Shoebox archive

All 7 letters rendered as scrap cards with age tag + NEW pip on today's
Click → opens modal with full letter text + audio player

Why

Audit classified CHILDHOOD as "Partial" — static audio player, one hardcoded track, no personalization visible to the user. Gap to real product: wire S3, add age progression, add reply ritual, add social share. Done in this pass.

Deploy

S3 key: innerverse-apps/childhood/index.html
Bucket: innerverse-voice-scratch
CF distro: E2XCVIHF61KT85 (childhood.silentinfinity.com)
CF invalidation: IS0J7X9LVVJNNSTDGQGPLTE8U