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Why wait weeks to build a MVP? 🚀
​I just deployed my latest project: StockPulse — a comprehensive Stock Market Prediction & Analysis Dashboard.
​As a BTech Ai and ML student, I’m fascinated by how generative tools are changing the development lifecycle. I used Lovable to architect this frontend, focusing on creating a seamless UI that translates complex market data into actionable insights.
​Key Features:
✅ Real-time stock tickers and market indices (Nifty 50, Sensex).
✅ Smart Stock Predictions with customizable risk tolerance.
✅ Comprehensive 'AI Analysis' reports covering technical and fundamental outlooks.
✅ Integrated Market News feed to stay updated on volatility.
​Building this allowed me to dive deep into Prompt Engineering for App Architecture and API data structuring. It’s a glimpse into the future of how we will build software—faster, smarter, and more user-centric.
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I use Claude every day
I think I'm pretty good at it
I watch two Anthropic engineers for 2 HOURS
Claude's engineer explains Skills from scratch
the first 5 minutes
wait. Skills are just folders?
folders that hold onto your workflow?
your domain? your expertise?
pause. rewind. I watch again
I think about every prompt I've rewritten from scratch
every context I've explained 100 times
every session that forgot everything
this shouldn't have happened like that
16 minutes. everything changes
skill issue detected:
is there a video? can you share the link to it? i'd like to watch
PROJECT NAME
AION PYR — The Aitherioi
CONCEPT / PROJECT DESCRIPTION
AION PYR is a one-minute instrumental progressive-rock film by The Aitherioi, a fictional trio of pale pre-terrestrial beings older than Earth.
They were here when the planet was born from heat, basalt, and lava, and they remain calm as that world dissolves into stardust. The film follows them performing inside a collapsing volcanic cathedral while lava, steam, lightning, and stone slowly give way to void.
The music is built only from guitar, bass, and drums: slow, heavy, repetitive, bass-led, and cathartic.
PROCESS
I started by defining The Aitherioi: a fictional pre-terrestrial trio with a shared visual identity, pale ethereal bodies, severe faces, long dark hair, and calm expressions.
Then I built the visual system around contrast: fossil-dark basalt, living lava, white steam, lightning, and their stillness inside collapse.
I created character assets, face studies, wardrobe references, instrument references, environment plates, keyframes, and individual video scenes.
The music was built first as a strict one-minute instrumental progressive-rock track using only guitar, bass, and drums. The video was then structured to follow the track: bass opening, wide trio, basalt corridor, guitar catharsis, drummer pulse, matter dissolution, and final void.
Finally, I stitched the scenes together with clean cuts so the film follows the music without extra transitions or title cards.
FEEDBACK ON BUILDING WITH MELIUS
Melius worked best as a production canvas rather than a single-prompt generator.
The node-based workflow made it possible to build the project in layers: character identity, environments, audio, keyframes, video clips, and final assembly. That helped keep the concept coherent while still allowing corrections when individual shots needed refinement.
The biggest challenge was visual continuity, especially keeping The Aitherioi consistent across scenes. The most useful approach was creating strict reference assets first, then using them as anchors for keyframes and video generation.
This is raw power, like it so much!
The Painter of Cities is a Melius-built cinematic short about an impossible gilded automaton that paints a living city onto a monumental black wall. From the city he creates, a female droid briefly appears within the painted surface. They reach toward each other, almost touching, before she is reclaimed by the wall.
It is a quiet story about creation, longing, and the tragedy of making something beautiful that cannot fully enter your world.
https://app.melius.com/projects/23546fb0-e3a3-4074-925f-676dfe384aad/canvas/f96fdb6f-cf03-40cd-ba59-f1ddd40a23a6
PROCESS STEPS
The project began with the challenge theme: create something that should exist, but doesn’t.
The core concept became The Painter of Cities: an impossible gilded automaton that paints a living city onto a monumental black wall.
Melius was used to generate sequential image keyframes for the story: the city being painted, the female droid appearing inside the wall, their near-touch, and her return to the painted surface.
The prompts were refined through several iterations to preserve visual continuity across the male droid, female droid, city wall, studio, palette, and old-master oil-paint aesthetic.
Short silent video scenes were generated from the keyframes, then adjusted to control pacing, motion, transitions, and emotional tone.
The video scenes were stitched into a final silent film. An original instrumental music cue was generated to match the final timing and emotional arc of the film.
FEEDBACK ON USING MELIUS
Melius worked best as a visual production canvas rather than a one-shot generator. The node-based workflow made it possible to build the project step by step: image keyframes, video scenes, stitching, music, and final assets.The strongest part was being able to iterate visually and preserve the creative process inside the canvas.The hardest part was controlling motion continuity between generated video clips. Some transitions and character movements required very precise prompting, especially when preserving the same droid designs and painterly world across multiple nodes.
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