This week at Uristocrat Studios, we continued iterating on and experimenting with various AI tools to support product development.
For context on how and why the work runs this way:
Here is what shipped.
x402
Goal: x402 shipped last week. This week was an iteration to continue to text the x402 thesis: Bots and Agents can pay for content.
Shipped: a branded 402-page that AI crawlers see when they hit a paywalled page, a /_x402/info route that explains the terms, an Analytics Engine pipeline to record traffic, and KV-backed crawler rules that can be changed without a redeploy. We also added Bot gating to Tor exit nodes, headless browsers, and disposable email addresses.
Tools: Cloudflare Workers, Workers KV, Workers Analytics Engine, Stripe crypto preview, USDC on Base.
Uristocrat Watch
Goal: improve Watch after last week's launch.
Shipped: A redesigned UI based on a design system developed in Claude Design, game detail pages with full injury reports and official gamecast links, and a dark mode contrast fix.
On the schedule: added the WNBA and the FIFA World Cup, Club World Cup, and Women's World Cup, and started hiding leagues with no games in the next 30 days.
Tools: Next.js, Amplitude, ESPN, and league-official data.
Skills and Agents
Goal: broaden the Uristocrat Studios skills store.
Shipped: A new agents collection was added. We developed an agent that bundles an MCP server, a skill, a runbook, and troubleshooting docs to improve SEO fo Ghost websites.
Two new skills shipped, including an iMessage History skill developed by Darlin Alberto. Landing page readability was improved.
Tools: Astro, Model Context Protocol, Amplitude.
Chief of staff email worker
Goal: A Morning brief based on the GTD framework.
Shipped: AM brief support on cos-email-worker. It drains an inbox of items collected through the day, processes each one, and emails back a morning brief.
Tools: Cloudflare Workers, Cloudflare Email.
uristocrat.com
Goal: continue the site redesign.
Shipped: a rebuilt archive page, a redesigned post template, and an Adinkra symbols redesign that moves the site's iconography onto Adinkra, the visual symbol system of the Akan people of Ghana.
Tools: Ghost theme.
See more Uristocrat Studios work at uristocrat.com/studios.
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