Cross-posted from Shipped With AI, my build log about learning to ship small tools with AI coding assistants. Originally published August 29, 2026, as the sixth post on the site.
Status check, up front: this is a bug fix to a prototype, not a client story. No shop has signed up to use this tool. What changed is that a limitation I described in an earlier post no longer exists.
In an earlier post about the product catalog tool, I admitted something that wasn't finished: the "fushi" version — built for furniture and craft workshops — splits the owner's editing tool and the public catalog into two separate HTML files. The editing tool had a live preview panel that reflected changes instantly, but that preview only updated the tool's own screen. The separate public catalog page never saw those changes. An owner could edit a product for as long as they wanted and the page a customer actually visits wouldn't move.
I called that "a real limitation, not a design choice" and said it was next on the list. This post is that next step.
What was actually wrong
