Impress Build Week 2Impress Build Week 2

v0.5.0 → v0.11.0 (2026-W28)
Production commit: 6c1b284
App: https://impress.plebtv.com
Prev: #1518749

TLDRTLDR

Week 2 was mostly Remix Mark I growing up and the rest of Impress catching up.

Remix Mark I - feeling like it finally has the right layout, also made 3 different layouts embedded via toggle for the view, doubled down on the 30/60/90 standard, added a scrubber, still in Labs.

Released Studio v1.5 - mostly bug fixes, added toggle, a more compact goth black polish, fixed dishonest loading states, and other things.

PlebTV’s home is Explore (/ is the feed, upload is /create, Google sign-in is open to everyone now), and we did some other subtle cosmetic changes, the same five color Labs sequencer gradient Remix uses was added to as well, small ships, but they make the product feel like one brandish.

The Long and Winding OneThe Long and Winding One

Build Week 2 was Studio v1.5, Subtle changes, Remix Mark I’s layout and ElevenLabs.

Remix Mark I grew upRemix Mark I grew up

After the Week 1 post (5911cb2), Mark I still had major product gaps. Like the major one no conclusive layout for video.

NGL the center spine layout is pretty dope to split the sequencer into true left/right wings with four modes so 30s and 60s edits do not feel like its fighting the browser chrome.
We hardened the Remix bridge so sources, analyze, and save delegate through /api/bridge/v1/remix/* without touching public watch/share/media semantics.
Analysis got its own durable queue and credit reservations.
Coarse FFmpeg scans reuse by fingerprint; the selected window gets deep scene, using aubio beat/onset, and transcript hooks.
Creator Credits show estimates before you spend export settles actual minutes with refunds on failure.
Preview can now try GPU compositing behind a flag, but FFmpeg stays authoritative.
Export now maps intent to punch zoom, transitions, ducking around SFX, and detecting errors that may have been introduced during its transmission or storage.
Boot loaders got faster and more honest - 900ms minimum in Remix
Mark I is still under /labs/remix/* graduation to Products alongside Studio is still deferred on purpose until we get the richer transitions, build solid templates and generate real beat driven automation and the experimenting stops

Studio v1.5Studio v1.5

We still have Studio v1.0 as it remains frozen as a client we can roll back to.
STUDIO_V15_ENABLED: brand lockup, two layout modes now (classic, timeline-max), full-bleed editor chrome, shared save/update panels, and the same ripple + caption burn-in toggle button.
Studio v1.5 playback had regressed preview sizing and primary asset wiring needed to be honest again, so 2800a58 restored desktop playback with shared studio-preview-size and studio-primary-assets helpers.
That tiered rollback is boring but I am grateful for it as found a lot of bugs this way going back and forth.

Platform polishPlatform polish

PWA pushes continue to be a other issue, grateful we do not have too many users right now as we get this dialed in.
Share menus clipping on mobile now.
Settings checkboxes you could not hit with a thumb was annoying.
We shipped compact dark gothic foundation, one main landmark, accessible menus and dialogs, honest async panels, Explore and Library tightening, and stricter mobile/PWA including an installed iPhone simulator gate so I can see it test on my other MacBook Air.
Also added Creators can now add Stacker News, Threads, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, and Nostr on channel pages.
Share flows and library rows got another polish pass mostly because we had to add it to the library it was too annoying to go back to explore and do this.
6c1b284 made the five color Labs gradient canonical in labs-sequencer.ts and we used it for every InstantChannelForm progress fill on upload.
Remix Mark I & Studio v1.5 now have bootup surfaces, got this idea from Predyx

PlebTV Explore-first homePlebTV Explore-first home

So we got some feedback from inside of PlebLab this week that we need to do discovery-first.
/ is now Explore.
Created Upload to be /create.
/explore redirects to / so old links still work and their shouldn't be fragmented share links out in the wild somewhere on the interwebs
Sidebar and mobile nav now say Home for the feed and Create for upload.
Google OAuth no longer forces @pleblab.com any Google account can sign in now, will add more sign-in options later but magic link works pretty darn well.

Post-ship nav is buggy and PWA late night polishPost-ship nav is buggy and PWA late night polish

Installed PWAs and signed in sidebars still serve stale navigation until we unified sidebar builders and made sw.js deployment versioned with explicit update handling (1c6a7fe). Which I just looked and is jacked up, will be fixing this tonight after this post release.

Honest deferred itemsHonest deferred items

Still open, said plainly:

Remix Mark I in Labs not graduated; GPU preview off by default
Notifications email and web push
Someone asked about Comments today and tbh they are coming at some point, thats a whole thing I am not ready to dive into yet.
End card branding is on the roadmap for the creators
Whisper upgrades on Captions

Outside the PlatformOutside the Platform

PlebTV got a grant from ElevenLabs this week, will be working on this with Remix Mark I first and push what it can really do to the limits, will report back.
We also updated our X account for what we are trying to build.

See ya next week!