Eric's clean run put a price on the pipeline's only paid step:
65 shelf photos, 136 games, under a dollar on the default model. The
README's vision requirement and the guide's config section both now
say so, plus the shape of the cost — one-time, since per-photo reads
are cached and re-runs are free — and that the BGG side costs nothing.
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Eric has seen the criticism land on other BGG apps: why does this
thing want my password? The README now answers it where the
requirement appears: BGG has no write API, so uploading means signing
into the real website in a visible browser on the user's own machine
— that login is the password's entire job. And the reassurance that
matters: no server, no telemetry, no analytics, nothing collected;
credentials go to boardgamegeek.com and nowhere else, the only other
contact is the user's own chosen vision provider (photos only, and a
local Ollama keeps even those home). The guide's credentials section
links back and notes the saved browser session stays local too.
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Eric's read on the first-visitor experience: 190 lines of pitch,
manual, gallery, and contributor doc is intimidating when the visitor
only needs the first 40. Split three ways:
README.md is now the front door — what it is, why it exists (told in
first person now, since it IS a personal itch scratched), how the six
stages work, requirements, quick start, one hero screenshot, and the
development/citizenship/license notes. Sixty percent shorter.
docs/tour.md carries the full gallery: all seven pages, the game
detail view, and the phone set, captions intact.
docs/guide.md is the complete user's guide: credentials and config,
the stages and their flags, phone pairing, photo technique, curation
stores, RPG handling, upload safety (including the collection-export
lag), the no-token-yet path, and the keep-data-out-of-git rationale.
Every relative link and README→guide anchor machine-verified to
resolve.
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