SusHi Tech Tokyo

First of all, we hope (if you are in the area) that you will come visit us at SusHi Tech Tokyo. We will be part of the Czech National Booth and wil be there for the entire time. We are super excited to meet you in person and show you what we are working on behind the scenes.

Through March we will be finishing all the features we want to have and April we will turn our attention to stability and fixing any issues that emerge. On the content side we hope to create a system that will allow us to get more content in from public domain and from established authors.

Development going forward

Something has changed in February. More precisely, at the end of January, we had a lot of buzz around OpenClaw and the emergence of personal assistants.

We also had the release of Claude Sonnet/Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.3. These two new models have again advanced coding to a new level. Not by much, but enough to move us to a new something new. For years we heard about how programmers will be made obsolete in 6 months. That moment for junior programmers has been reached last year and now things have evolved to a point that LLMs are a power multiplier that can’t be ignored any longer.

We have been using various models to augment our development and the code from them has been growing in percentage on what we ship. At first it was a great way to get started on things we have been procrastinating, but they have been able to get closer and closer to our desired goals. But the speed was very much limited by to what was happening on our machine, usually one task at a time. Then we added GitHub Copilot to the mix, as initial starting point, and thing have started changing quickly. Now GitHub Copilot does the initial version of the issue and often works on multiple issues in paralel, we then take it, test it locally and make fixes until it is ready for production. Things have started happening quickly and our bottleneck now is in reviewing the code more than anything else.

So for March we will be focusing on getting in as many features as we can, while in April we’ll focus on stability and at best only small enhancement. That means that things might break a lot during March, so please approach with caution and let us know if you encounter any issues. Through April we want to stabilize things and make sure that any future updates will not endanger existing features (expanding our test suite to cover all the use cases).

With this we hope to cover a lot of things and possibly have even some chance to finish on some large item issues.

What we’ll be focusing on

During this two month period these are the main things we’ll be focusing on when it comes to features:

• Story sales and monetization related things (right now mainly blocked by some legal stuff).

• Japanese language writing related features

• Translations related functionality

• Presentations for established authors

• AI Assistant for writers and for our own company

• Storylines and scene manager

We hope to get much more sorted than that, but working with coding LLMs can be unpredictable or we might run out of credits, so no promises.

Technical updates

• Modernized our router and added page transitions.

• Added text aligning to editor.

• Improved SEO headers on chapters

• A first for us, we had to remove the donations to authors feature due to upcoming changes to fan clubs. This time this was driven by legal aspects.

• Fixes to comparison pages

• Option to edit and delete your feed posts

• Text alignment options in editor