Build Log · June 21, 2026

Hearth: The Rebrand

ForgeHome becomes Hearth — quiet day AI, recipe auto-save, nav overhaul, and a full warm amber brand across app and website.

  • Hearth
  • ForgeHome
  • AI
  • Brand
  • UI
new AI routes
2

new AI routes

components updated
8

components updated

app renamed
1

app renamed

deploys
2

deploys

Timeline

  1. Start

    Quiet day AI

    Surface notebook + lookahead when today's route is empty

  2. 1h

    Recipe engine

    Auto-save from week page, AI prefill in recipe book

  3. 2h

    UX overhaul

    MealCapture removed, Capture→Notebook, 4+More nav, grocery collapse

  4. 3h

    ForgeHome → Hearth

    Name decision, full app rename, warm amber palette

  5. 4h

    Website rebrand

    Hearth product page, hearthliving.jpg hero, amber across site

What shipped

  • Quiet day AI — when 0/0 route, surfaces notebook items + week lookahead with creative Claude suggestions

  • Recipe ingredients AI route — POST /api/ai/recipe-ingredients, fuzzy match saved recipes first, fallback to Claude

  • Recipe auto-save from week page — adding a dish fires save-recipe automatically

  • RecipeBook 'Fill ingredients' button — Sparkles icon, Enter key triggers generation, inline feedback note

  • Ingredient display fix — single line quantity + name instead of ugly two-column layout

  • MealCapture removed — WeekCapture is the single meal log entry point

  • Capture → Notebook — nav label only, URL stays /capture

  • 4+More mobile nav — 4 primary tabs + More drawer for Plan, Curriculum, Handoff, Settings

  • Grocery event collapse — tap event header to collapse/expand dish ingredient groups

  • ForgeHome → Hearth — app name, layout wordmarks, root metadata

  • Warm amber palette — globals.css full rewrite, sidebar brown #1C1410, primary #C17A2E

  • Teal hardcodes removed — HandoffCourtney, HandoffZeb, background tile pattern removed

  • Website Hearth product page — hearthliving.jpg hero, amber #C17A2E throughout

  • Website homepage card — Hearth name, hearthliving.jpg, updated copy

  • Nav + Footer updated — ForgeHome → Hearth in all nav entries and footer links

“The home has a plan. Now it's written down.”
— Hearth tagline — surfaced this session