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beniauer rebrands Mike as Michi and takes it live

A top-to-bottom rename and a fresh deploy setup turn one fork into its own branded product.

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beniauer has given their fork of Mike a full identity change, swapping the name everywhere a user would see it - page titles, sign-up and account copy, support links, the assistant's own prompts, even the label on tracked changes - and redrawing the app icon. The product is now Michi, pointed at beniauer's personal domain.

Alongside the rename comes the plumbing to put it online: a deployment setup for Cloudflare Workers, the serverless platform that runs apps close to users around the world. Read together, this isn't a new capability or a fresh take on legal work - it's a developer wrapping Mike in their own brand and prepping it for public hosting.

So what Worth a glance if you track which forks are turning into standalone branded products versus staying experiments - this one reads as a personal portfolio piece going live.

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3 commits from beniauer/michi, oldest first. Source extracted verbatim from the harvested git log.

SHA Subject Author Date
0181f2b4 chore: rebrand Mike to Michi Benjamin Auer 2026-05-22 ↗ GitHub 
Rename throughout the UI, page titles, and AI system prompts, and redesign
the app icon.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
1fde0ba5 chore: finalize upstream sync Benjamin Auer 2026-05-22 ↗ GitHub
commit body 
- Mount the /caselaw route in the upstream index.ts (rate limiting and
  helmet already come from upstream).
- Rename remaining user-facing "Mike" strings to "Michi" (metadata,
  OpenGraph/Twitter cards, account + signup copy).
- npm audit fix on backend and frontend after the dependency bump.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
32f1b53f chore: finish Michi rebrand + add Cloudflare Workers deploy config Benjamin Auer 2026-05-22 ↗ GitHub
commit body 
- Replace remaining "Mike"/mikeoss.com user-facing strings (login + support
  copy, OG/metadata URLs, logo landing link) with Michi / michi.benjamin-auer.ch.
- Add frontend/wrangler.jsonc for opennextjs-cloudflare deploy to the
  michi.benjamin-auer.ch custom domain.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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