Newsletter on Substack — single family newsletter, free tier, 10% if paid — Single newsletter for the whole oriz family at chirag127.substack.com (or brand-aligned name). Free tier; Substack takes 10% if a paid tier ever ships. ONE newsletter, NOT per-app. Daily blog feed + weekly digest + book drop announcements. Embed signup form on home-app + every content app footer. Replaces the earlier Buttondown + EmailOctopus split.
Public image-upload tool on image.oriz.in — gated by free/pro tier — Locked 2026-06-23. oriz-pixie-image-tools-app gets a public /upload page using the 5-host replicate pipeline (Cloudinary + ImageKit + imgbb + freeimage + GH Releases). Free tier: 5 uploads/day, requires sign-in + reCAPTCHA v3. Pro tier: unlimited. Reuses lib/photos.ts from oriz-roam-journal-app. Durability promise: best-effort only, no SLA — free tier compliance limits guarantees. Anonymous users see paywall card.
Observability, AI, search, auth, DB stack (Q3 2026 lock) — Cross-cutting service picks locked on 2026-06-22. AI: @chirag127/oriz-ai-providers (20-provider fallback chain — OVHcloud / LLM7 / Pollinations anonymous first, then Cerebras / Groq / NIM / OpenRouter / etc keyed) — see decisions/architecture/oriz-ai-providers-package. Search: Pagefind for static + Algolia free hybrid. Errors: Sentry free + OSS tier apply. Uptime: UptimeRobot free 50 monitors. Auth: Firebase Auth (Spark). DB: Firestore only. I18n: English-only v0 + Crowdin OSS community translations. Privacy: single family-wide /privacy page. Cookie consent: Klaro EU + DPDP India geo-route.
Tool categories roadmap — Tier 1 + Tier 2 + anti-list — The locked list of 15 tool subdomains: 8 Tier 1 (ship working day 1) + 7 Tier 2 (stub day 1, fill in later). Tier 3 is explicitly skipped. Anti-list captures categories deliberately rejected (URL shorteners, AI image gen, etc.).
Tools shape + priority — 16 single-purpose subdomains, locked ship order — 16 tool apps, each at its own *.oriz.in subdomain (paisa, slice, scribe, pixie, grid, forge, shift, dice, cipher, paper, vitals, rank, reel, echo, pivot + remainder). Anonymous-first auth. Free + opt-in sponsor footer. Affiliate allowed only where ethically clean (Amazon book links on scribe-text; NOT on health tools). Locked ship priority for Wave 2.
Tools shipped as 15 separate repos, one per subdomain — Each tool category is its own GitHub repo (pdf-site, image-site, ...) deployed to its own Cloudflare Pages project at .oriz.in. No tools-site monorepo. Picked over 'one repo, 15 subdomain builds' for portfolio framing and SEO concentration.