Changelog

Shipped, in order.

Baited is built in the open, milestone by milestone. Everything below is real and usable today, with no roadmap promises dressed up as releases.

01 The shipping log

June 2026

  1. Jun 19 Forecasting

    Trip-Day Outlook + a conditions archive

    Anglers and captains see a marine outlook for the exact trip date, and every trip now logs the wind, sea, moon, and tide it ran under, so the platform stops losing the conditions behind a good day on the water.

    • Trip-Day Outlook end-to-end, horizon-capped
    • Conditions archive: wind / sea / moon / tide per trip
    • “Log catch” outcomes close the feedback loop
  2. Jun 17 Payments

    Live deposit checkout

    The booking widget collects the deposit at checkout and settles it straight to the operator's own Stripe account, with no per-booking commission held back. Deployed to production in test mode, with the live-key swap owner-gated.

    • Deposit captured in the widget flow
    • $0 booking fee shown to the guest, every time
    • Funds land in the operator's Stripe, not ours
  3. Jun 09 Platform

    Marketing site + developer docs

    A static marketing site (homepage, sourced Peek comparison, pricing, and a live demo that runs the real widget) plus developer docs: getting-started, framework embed guides, the widget theming contract, and a full API reference generated from the live route surface.

    • Embed guides for React, Next, Astro, and plain HTML
    • API reference that can't drift from the routes
  4. Jun 10 Fish intel

    Offshore Fish-Intelligence hub

    A captain-facing intelligence dashboard: a keyless heat map over an authored coastline and offshore banks, per-cell “why” reasoning, ranked best-bets with a run and bearing from Point Loma, a go / no-go call, and a community fish-count feed.

    • Species, date, and layer toggles with a recency chip
    • NOAA-fed ocean + marine forecast, mocks until keys land
  5. Jun 05 Revenue

    Revenue & retention suite

    Eight features that help an operator keep more of every season, built so a busy month never costs more than a slow one.

    • Crew gratuity / tips
    • Digital waivers & e-sign
    • Gift cards
    • Promo & discount codes
    • Waitlist with auto-offer
    • Store credit vs. refund
    • Repeat-customer CRM
    • Split / group payments
  6. Jun 05 Customer

    Customer self-service portal

    A magic-link portal where anglers manage their own bookings (reschedule, cancel, download an .ics, read the know-before-you-go pack, and check store-credit balances) without a single phone call to the captain.

  7. Jun 05 Operator

    Operator admin console

    The captain's command center: schedule and manifests, bookings and customers, trips, availability and pricing, plus every revenue tool above in one place.

    • One-click Coast Guard souls-on-board manifest export
  8. Jun Foundation

    MVP booking, payments & weather/tide

    Where it started: the core booking engine, deposit payments, and live NOAA weather and tide woven into the flow so an angler sees the marine forecast for a date before they commit to it.

    • Availability, holds, and a real booking flow
    • NOAA weather + tide in the booking experience

Sourced from the build log. Dates mark when each milestone landed in the codebase; production deploys for the newest entries are owner-gated. Phase 11 and beyond (trust pages, SEO, and conversion polish) are in flight.

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