Clankies Development Blog

Above Water — Refined

8 items with detailed acceptance criteria, ready to build.

Slice 01 — Chat + Calculator Slice 02 — Design System Slice 03 — Blog Deploy Slice 04 — Gmail Power-up Slice 05 — Conversation History Slice 06 — Scheduling Slice 07 — Logs & Monitoring Slice 08 — Webhooks

Below Water — Icebox

~15 items that need refinement before they surface.

Additional LLM adapters Power-up marketplace Admin panel Conversation export Cost tracking Rate limiting i18n Agent collaboration

The Product Backlog Iceberg — ~35% is above water and actionable. The rest needs discovery and refinement before it's ready to build.

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