Moving from Public Pitch Deck to Private Dashboard: A Developer's Day

Had a productive session working on honeybun today, focusing on moving some internal tooling out of the public eye and into where it belongs.

The Big Move: Pipeline View Goes Private

I finally tackled something that's been bugging me for weeks - the Pipeline view was sitting in our public pitch deck at go.gethoneybun.com where anyone could see our deal tracking and conversion metrics. Not exactly what you want prospects stumbling across, right?

Moved the entire thing into the operator dashboard where it belongs. This involved:

• Creating a new pipeline.js file with all the fetch/render logic
• Wiring up the navigation in the dashboard UI
• Making sure the view dispatcher knew how to handle it
• Ripping out all the pipeline code from the public sales deck

The dashboard now has proper pipeline tracking with summary cards, badges, and the ability to mark deals as won. Much cleaner separation of concerns.

Website Polish: Sticky CTA Drama

Also spent some time fixing our sticky call-to-action bar on the main site. The dark bar wasn't showing up properly across different screen sizes, which is never good for conversions.

Here's where it got interesting - there was some WordPress plugin injecting its own CTA that was conflicting with ours. Rather than hunt through WP admin (which honestly I didn't have access to at the moment), I just suppressed it with CSS. Sometimes the quick and dirty solution is the right one:

#hbStickyCta, .hb-sticky-cta { display: none !important; }

Added global padding to the body so the sticky bar doesn't cover content on any device. Those little UX details matter more than people think.

Deployment Wins and CLI Fails

Deployment was mostly smooth. Pushed the dashboard changes to Vercel and it auto-aliased to app.gethoneybun.com without any manual work. Love it when automation just works.

Had one hiccup where vercel ls failed because I didn't have credentials set up on this machine. Quick pivot to using their REST API with a token instead. Sometimes you gotta work with what you've got.

The Messy Reality of Real Codebases

One thing I'm always honest about - real development is messy. The dashboard repo had 4 other modified files sitting there from previous work (some CSS updates, view improvements, package.json changes). I intentionally left those unstaged since they weren't related to today's work.

This is just how it goes when you're building fast. You've got work-in-progress scattered across files, and you have to be disciplined about what goes into each commit. feat(dashboard): add Pipeline view tells the story of exactly what this change was about.

What's Next

I should probably go find that WordPress plugin and actually deactivate it instead of just hiding it with CSS. It's still loading JavaScript for no reason. But honestly? The CSS fix works, it's version controlled, and I can move on to more important things.

Sometimes perfect is the enemy of shipped.

The pipeline view is now properly private, the website CTA works across all devices, and I can sleep better knowing our deal metrics aren't accidentally public. Good day.