# Pounce - Progress

## What Works
- ✅ FastAPI backend + Next.js frontend (Terminal + public pages)
- ✅ Cookie-based auth (HttpOnly) + OAuth
- ✅ Market feed + auctions + listings + TLD intel
- ✅ Watchlist + cached health checks (bulk + per-domain cache-first)
- ✅ Separate scheduler process (avoid duplicate jobs with multiple API workers)
- ✅ Redis-backed job queue scaffolding (ARQ worker) + admin scraping enqueue
- ✅ Prometheus metrics endpoint (`/metrics`)
- ✅ Business KPI metrics derived from telemetry (cached)
- ✅ Server-side DB backups + ops alerting (email) without Docker
- ✅ SEO baseline: dynamic sitemap + canonical redirects + server-side metadata for programmatic pages
- ✅ Viral loop baseline: invite codes + attribution + referral KPIs in Admin (Telemetry tab) + deterministic referral rewards/badges
- ✅ Load test scaffolding (`loadtest/k6`)

## What's Left
- ⏳ Decide production stance on email verification (recommend: enforce via `REQUIRE_EMAIL_VERIFICATION=true`)
- ⏳ Production observability rollout (optional dashboards; alerts can be in-app via ops alerting)
- ⏳ Optional: migrate periodic background jobs from APScheduler → queue/worker for scaling

## Next (Unicorn Plan)
- ▶️ 3A Programmatic SEO maximal (Templates + Indexation + CTA Pfade) — in progress
- ▶️ 3C Viral Loop (Referral sauber am Yield/Direct Deal Surface) — in progress

## Current Issues
- None known - awaiting first test run

## Performance Notes
- WHOIS queries are inherently slow (external I/O): expect ~1–3s/domain
- DB hotspots were reduced (market feed bounded queries, N+1 removed in price tracking/admin)
- Use `/metrics` + `loadtest/k6` to track p95 after deployments

