DAREALTYTE

Deliberately best-effort — a settings tweak failing shouldn’t fail a deployment that already succeeded. It surfaces as public: false in the response and a visible warning in the UI, rather than silently handing someone a broken link.
Live Stripe checkout failed on day one. Test mode worked perfectly. Live mode returned:
Invalid line_items[0]: the product tax code is missing… Product tax code is required for Managed Payments, which is enabled by default on your account.
A whole class of bug that only exists in production. I reproduced it directly against Stripe’s API before touching code, then opted the session out of Managed Payments — rather than inventing a tax classification, since whether to collect sales tax is a business decision, not a code one.
The meta-lesson
Every one of these five bugs was invisible to the test suite. The unit tests were green the entire time — because they tested my parsing logic, and every bug was in the query I sent or the transport I sent it over.
Four of them were only findable by hitting the live endpoint and reading actual output. The 1996–2006 bug in particular looked like a total success from every angle except one: 566 results, HTTP 200, tests passing, correct shape. You had to actually look at the dates.
Best Use of Sentry
Not submitting to this category — DAREALTYTE doesn’t currently use Sentry.
Worth being straight about it, since this project is a decent argument for adding it. Bugs 4 and 5 both returned HTTP 200 with well-formed payloads. Error monitoring wouldn’t have flagged either one; nothing threw. What would have caught them is exactly what I ended up doing by hand — inspecting real production responses and noticing the values were wrong even though the shape was right.
The one place Sentry would have paid off immediately is Bug 3. The Safari Load failed was reported to me as a screenshot from a phone, with no stack trace and no way to reproduce it in my own environment. A Session Replay or a captured client-side exception would have turned a multi-round guessing game into a single look.
Best Use of Google AI
Not submitting to this category — no Google AI products are used in this project.