Building Once Upon Today: Why I Tested My AI Pipeline Locally First

A Quick Update on Once Upon Today Before We Get Into the Build

Before getting into the local AI pipeline, here is a quick update on where Once Upon Today currently stands.

I recently redesigned the app’s logo. The original version was AI-generated, which helped me establish a direction quickly, but it had one problem I could not unsee: the bottom portion was supposed to resemble an open diary, yet it looked more like a leaf. It had two curved lobes but no clear spine or pages. It was a pleasant shape, just not the right one.

Old logo.

So I sat down and redrew it by hand — my first time doing vector design in Affinity Designer, after years in Adobe Illustrator. The shortcuts and tools took some relearning, but one thing made it easier than expected: Affinity ships with ready-made shapes for crescents and stars, which happen to...

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