First internal alpha

Released: 2026-06-20

The first end-to-end deploy works. Three teammates used it to ship their personal sites. Lots of rough edges.

What works (in alpha)

• Sign up with email → get API key
• krexel deploy from CLI uploads folder to Cloudflare Pages
• Custom domain via DNS records (manual)
• Live URL on yourname.krexel.app subdomain
• Dashboard with deploy history (basic)
• Stripe test mode checkout

What's rough

• Every deploy does a full rebuild (no patch deploys yet)
• No rollback
• No R2 file storage (so no file tree history)
• Dashboard has minimal styling
• No team features
• Auth uses a naive O(n) key scan
• Documentation is a single README

Why we're shipping it now

We needed real users hitting real edge cases before building the rest. The alpha taught us:

• Most users don't know what an MCP server is. Need a "what is this" explainer.
• Patch deploys are the killer feature. Every user said "I'd use this 10x more if I didn't have to wait for rebuilds."
• Custom domain DNS is confusing. Three users got stuck on Cloudflare's proxy toggle.
• Stripe checkout is the conversion bottleneck. Most users abandon at the card form. Need to optimize.

These insights shaped the v0.4 roadmap.

What changed since alpha

This entry is retrospective — we're writing it now (2026-07-08) to fill in the changelog from the start. Everything in this entry shipped between 2026-06-15 and 2026-06-20 but wasn't tracked in a public changelog at the time.

Future versions get their changelog entries written as they ship.