Fizz & Frillz
A trend-tracking product site with a rotating catalog that re-checks itself on a schedule
Visit the live site →Role: Solo — design, build, data pipeline, automation, content system
The problem
Trend sites die of staleness. A "what's hot right now" page written once is wrong within weeks: products sell out, listings get redirected to different variants, and the trend itself falls off the charts — but the page keeps ranking and keeps sending people to dead links. The question was whether a one-person site could stay honest without a person checking it every day.
How I built it
One data file, every page
Products, groups, badges, honest pros and cons and price tiers live in a single JSON file. The picks page, each guide’s recommendation box, the homepage reel and the deal-day page all render from it, so a correction is one edit in one place.
A scheduled agent does the checking
Every ten days an automated run opens the Amazon trending page and every existing listing in a real browser, retires what is unavailable or redirected, re-tiers what drifted, adds genuine risers, and redeploys — then reports what it changed and what needs a human decision.
Prices as tiers, not numbers
Affiliate rules and honesty both argue against printing prices that go stale in hours. Every product shows a relative tier instead, with the dollar band kept internal for drift checks only.
Bespoke imagery without a photographer
A Gemini image pipeline produces a different editorial hero for each guide — a milky-nail macro, a stadium flat-lay, a tablescape — under a hard rule: renders are labeled as illustrations and never passed off as product photos.
Adversarial audit before every deploy
A separate agent is told to break each change — compliance, accuracy against the source, rendering — before anything ships. It has caught real defects, including ones I introduced myself.
The outcome
A rotating catalog across beauty, home, style, seasonal and just-for-fun groups, with illustrated guides, refreshed on a schedule at zero hosting cost. An early refresh cycle retired a whole product category whose listings had gone dead and swapped five redirected ASINs before a visitor ever hit them.
The product is the maintenance loop, not the pages. A content site that verifies itself on a schedule, with one source of truth and a second set of eyes before deploy, stays trustworthy in a way a hand-maintained one never will.
Technical stack and details
A women's trending-products site built as a rotating catalog across beauty, home, style, seasonal and just-for-fun groups, refreshed on a schedule: one data file drives every page, a scheduled agent re-verifies every listing, and a Gemini image pipeline gives every guide a bespoke hero. Light, bubbly design with a scroll-driven product reel.
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