atypica.AI Changelog

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  • 🧪 Alpha Testing: New Interview Project

    A more streamlined and powerful Interview Project workflow is currently in internal testing. It will support both AI-led and human-led interview modes, aiming to significantly simplify the execution of user research.

  • 🧪 Alpha Testing: Product R&D Flow

    A new "Product R&D" research template is being tested internally. This template focuses on market trends, user needs, and creative ideation, with a report structure that emphasizes images and conceptual designs.

v7.x: Enterprise Collaboration & Data Insights

v7.1.0 2025-08-08

  • ✨ Feature: Team Management

    Added team workspaces, supporting member invitations, removal, and role management. Implemented user identity switching for seamless work between personal and team spaces. Introduced dedicated routes and navigation menus for the team edition.

v7.0.0 2025-08-01

  • ✨ Core Feature: Build Private AI Personas (AI Persona Import) [Beta]

    Launched the core AI Persona Import feature, opening up a public beta for Max plan users. Users can upload their own interview transcripts (PDF, JSON, CSV) to build completely private Human AI Personas (Proprietary). The AI provides multi-dimensional analysis and scoring for the uploaded content, generating an interactive AI Persona and visualizing the analysis with tools like radar charts.

v6.x: Globalization & Intelligent Enhancement

v6.2.0 2025-07-28

  • 🚀 UX: Speech Recognition Upgrade

    Integrated Groq Whisper API for near real-time, streaming transcription, dramatically improving the fluency of voice interviews (2025-07-04).

  • 🌱 Development: New Interview Project

    Completed the core development of the new Interview Project and moved it into the internal Alpha testing phase. The new workflow aims to simplify the creation and sharing process for interviews (2025-07-24).

  • 🔧 Tweak: File Management

    Added a dedicated attachments table to manage user-uploaded files centrally, enabling file reuse and optimizing storage (2025-07-20).

v6.1.0 2025-06-30

  • 🚀 Milestone: Atypica Global Launch

    Completed the core database migration from China to the US region, laying the foundation for global services (2025-06-29). Launched the new new-study-interview feature, clarifying user research goals through an initial AI conversation. Published the first global launch announcement on Twitter, officially marking the product's entry into the international market.

  • 🌱 Development: Product R&D Flow

    Completed the core development of the Product R&D research flow and moved it into the internal Alpha testing phase (2025-06-27).

  • 🎨 UI: All-New V3 Website

    Launched a completely redesigned official website (atypica.ai) with an improved information architecture and visual experience, featuring all AI-generated illustrations (2025-06-27).

v6.0.0 2025-06-15

  • 💰 Commercialization: Pricing & Plan Upgrades

    Launched the MAX subscription plan, offering more tokens and advanced features (2025-06-12). Implemented plan upgrades/downgrades with automated pro-rated pricing based on remaining tokens (2025-06-26). Transitioned to USD-based pricing and integrated Stripe's Alipay auto-debit feature to streamline payments (2025-06-19).

  • ✨ Feature: Enhanced Research Capabilities

    Integrated Tavily for real-time web searches, providing richer context during the initial research phase. Added Twitter as a new data source for building more globally relevant user personas. Introduced the "Real Persona" concept, allowing personas based on actual interviews to be highlighted during research.

  • 🔧 Tweak: Research Flow Classification

    Implemented automatic classification of research queries (Testing, Planning, Insights, Creation) to match them with distinct research flows and report structures (2025-06-09).

v5.x: Intelligent Reports & UX Leap

v5.1.0 2025-05-31

  • ✨ Feature: In-Report Image Generation

    Integrated Google Imagen 4.0 and Midjourney to dynamically generate high-quality, context-aware images directly within research reports (2025-05-25).

  • 🚀 Performance: Prompt Caching

    Enabled prompt caching for Bedrock Claude. By hashing historical messages, it reduces token consumption for repetitive requests by 90% (2025-05-29).

  • 🔧 Tweak: Voice Input

    Optimized the voice recognition feature using the Groq Whisper model for instant speech-to-text conversion, significantly improving interaction speed. Fixed a bug where prompt caching failed due to an issue in the Vercel AI SDK.

v5.0.0 2025-05-20

  • ✨ Feature: Research Attachments

    Users can now upload documents (PDF, etc.) as context when initiating a study. The AI references this information during subsequent interviews and report generation (2025-05-18).

  • ✨ Feature: Persona Vector Search

    Integrated the pgvector extension into the database, adding Embedding vectors to Personas to enable semantic, similarity-based searches (2025-05-13).

  • ✨ Feature: Report Download (PDF)

    Deployed a standalone html-to-pdf service, allowing research reports to be downloaded as high-quality PDF files with a single click (2025-05-12).

  • 🔧 Tweak: Agent Interaction

    The Study Agent can now pass more specific instructions and context to the Interview Agent, receiving richer feedback and significantly reducing overall token consumption.

v4.x: Platform Architecture Upgrade

v4.1.0 2025-04-30

  • 🔧 Platform: Database Migration

    Successfully migrated the backend database from MySQL to PostgreSQL, paving the way for advanced features like vector search and complex queries (2025-04-29). Resolved initial performance issues post-migration by adding indexes to nerd stats queries.

  • 🔧 Tweak: Models & Cost

    Introduced the gpt-4o model with support for parallel tool calling to effectively reduce research costs (2025-04-16). Adopted Google Gemini 1.5 Flash for specific tasks to further optimize costs (2025-04-21). Implemented strict token and step limits to prevent research tasks from running over budget or time (2025-04-28).

v4.0.0 2025-04-20

  • 💰 Commercialization: Tokens Billing Model Launch

    Switched the billing system from simple "points" to a more granular Tokens-based model. Officially launched the Pro subscription plan and a new Pricing page (2025-04-20). Integrated Stripe to support global credit card payments (2025-04-09).

  • 🔧 Platform: Core DB Rearchitecture

    Split ChatMessage data into a separate table, resolving data override issues during concurrent writes and improving system stability and scalability (2025-04-12).

  • ✨ Feature: Multi-platform Data Integration

    Added TikTok and Instagram as new data sources to broaden consumer insights (2025-04-17).

v3.x: Conversational Research Assistant

v3.1.0 2025-04-03

  • 💰 Commercialization: Payment MVP

    Introduced a user points system and launched the first payment feature ("buy a coffee") via the Heidian API. Added a Hello Agent to capture enterprise leads through conversation.

  • ✨ Feature: Invitation Codes

    Added an invitation code system for early user onboarding (2025-03-31).

v3.0.0 2025-03-27

  • ✨ Core Rearchitecture: Unified Conversational UI

    Overhauled the multi-step process into a unified "research-driven chat" interface, where users can kick off a full study just by asking a question. Introduced the Study Agent as a "commander" to plan tasks, orchestrate specialized agents, and report back to the user.

  • 🎨 UX: New Interaction Paradigm

    Adopted a split-screen design (left: chat, right: atypica llm console) to provide real-time transparency into the AI's thought and execution process (2025-03-19). Implemented a "Replay" feature with shareable links (2025-03-22). Added "Nerd Stats" for tracking token and step consumption (2025-03-26). Added a light/dark theme toggle (2025-03-25). Generated the first changelog page automatically from git log.

v2.x: Step-by-Step Research Process

v2.0.0 2025-03-15

  • ✨ Core Rearchitecture: Guided Workflow

    Launched a multi-page, guided scout → personas → analyst → interview → report process, establishing a foundational framework for market research.

  • ✨ Features

    Analyst: Create and manage research topics, stored in the database.
    Interview: Simulate AI-driven interviews with Personas.
    Report: Automatically generate HTML reports with a shareable link.

  • 🔧 Platform

    Introduced user authentication (login/signup) and made research history private (2025-03-16).
    First deployment to an AWS cluster at atypica.musedam.cc, with GitHub CI for continuous integration.

v1.x: User Discovery Tool

v1.0.0 2025-03-12

  • 🚀 Project Inception: ArchitypeAI -> Atypica

    Product concept defined: build interactive User Personas from social media data to test product innovation ideas (2025-03-05).

  • ✨ Core Feature: AI Persona Generation

    Achieved the first end-to-end flow: automatically summarizing and creating User Personas from "Xiaohongshu" data. The SavePersona tool successfully saved the first AI-generated persona to the database.

  • 🔧 Tech Stack

    Next.js + Vercel AI SDK + LLM Tools as the core framework.
    Claude 3.7 Sonnet as the primary reasoning model.
    Significantly reduced early token costs by rewriting prompts with an experimental method (2025-03-08).

Log begins on March 5, 2025, project inception.