DealerRefresh Roadmap - taking requests

[Alex Snyder]

We have been making tons of changes to DealerRefresh. Some you see, many you don't. With the nitty-gritty stuff done, it is time to air the plans and seek your requests. I will keep a running list here.

Next up:

1. Integrate AI Summaries with a weekly email
2. Remove banner ads from the main site code and turn them into widgets for easier placement
3. Rebuild the advertiser report
4. Create an AI summary based on DealerRefresh's weekly activity for the forum page
5. Catalog vendors mentioned in past and future threads for the reviews section
6. Build categorical pages of curated content as landing pages

Done:

• Reinstated username hovers
• Rebuilt admin permissions in the dumpster
• Redsigned the navigation and combined it with the account access bar
• Moved social icons to footer
• Rebuilt staging as an exact replica of production with multiple online and offline backups
• Removed Mandrill
• Removed ThreadLoom
• Removed Modern Statistics
• Built Daily Acivity widget to replace Modern Statistics
• Built Visitors Online Now widget
• Built internal Proposal site
• Built internal Proposal flow
• Built internal Proposal pipeline site
• Built internal Proposal view dashboard
• Built internal Proposal Automations
• Built internal stats dashboard
• Added API to Claude
• Built AI Summaries for humans
• Built AI Summaries for crawlers
• Built AI Summary widget to show on all threads
• Built AI summary ongoing automations
• Connected to new email notification and user settings email system
• Connected to new email subscription service and cleaned the email lists
• Updated admin navigation and added new tools to admin nav in forums