Build notes from the workshop: what shipped, what broke, and what the renders look like along the way.
The night we made our own product's presentation film with our own engine: the polite first cut, the 'drop the chill' brief, word slams on a stadium track, and why I am keeping the receipt.
I am 18 and building FlatMotion in public. Day 4: a working dashboard, a video engine, a brand scraper, and videos that are not good enough yet. The full build log.
Pixels beat API guesses, fonts need stoplists, white logos disappear, and LLMs invent buttons. Everything I learned building the brand extraction pipeline.
