apps/web/src/components/NotFound.tsx

@@ -1,43 +0,0 @@
-import { Link } from "@tanstack/react-router";
-
-export default function NotFound() {
-  return (
-    <section className="relative flex flex-col items-center justify-center py-24 text-center overflow-hidden">
-      <div className="absolute inset-0 -z-10">
-        <div className="absolute top-0 left-1/2 h-72 w-184 -translate-x-1/2 rounded-full bg-(--color-primary) opacity-[0.10] blur-3xl" />
-        <div className="absolute top-10 left-1/2 h-72 w-184 -translate-x-1/2 rounded-full bg-(--color-accent) opacity-[0.10] blur-3xl" />
-      </div>
-
-      <div className="-rotate-1 mb-4">
-        <span className="inline-flex items-center gap-2 rounded-full bg-(--color-surface) px-4 py-1 text-xs font-semibold tracking-widest uppercase text-(--color-accent) border border-(--color-primary-light)">
-          lost in translation
-        </span>
-      </div>
-
-      <h1 className="text-8xl font-black tracking-tight text-(--color-text) leading-none">
-        4
-        <span className="inline-block rotate-1 px-3 py-1 bg-(--color-primary) text-white rounded-xl">
-          0
-        </span>
-        4
-      </h1>
-
-      <p className="mt-6 text-lg font-medium text-(--color-text-muted) max-w-sm">
-        This page doesn't exist. Maybe it never did - or maybe you{" "}
-        <span className="text-(--color-accent) font-bold">
-          just guessed wrong
-        </span>
-        .
-      </p>
-
-      <div className="mt-8">
-        <Link
-          to="/"
-          className="px-7 py-3 rounded-full text-white font-bold text-sm bg-(--color-primary) hover:bg-(--color-primary-dark)"
-        >
-          Back to home
-        </Link>
-      </div>
-    </section>
-  );
-}

apps/web/src/components/landing/Hero.tsx

@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ const Hero = () => {
   return (
     <section className="relative pt-10 md:pt-16 pb-10 md:pb-14">
       <div className="absolute inset-0 -z-10">
-        <div className="absolute -top-24 left-1/2 h-72 w-184 -translate-x-1/2 rounded-full bg-(--color-primary) opacity-[0.10] blur-3xl" />
+        <div className="absolute -top-24 left-1/2 h-72 w-[46rem] -translate-x-1/2 rounded-full bg-(--color-primary) opacity-[0.10] blur-3xl" />
-        <div className="absolute -top-10 left-1/2 h-72 w-184 -translate-x-1/2 rounded-full bg-(--color-accent) opacity-[0.10] blur-3xl" />
+        <div className="absolute -top-10 left-1/2 h-72 w-[46rem] -translate-x-1/2 rounded-full bg-(--color-accent) opacity-[0.10] blur-3xl" />
       </div>
 
       <div className="grid items-center gap-10 md:grid-cols-2">
@@ -28,11 +28,9 @@ const Hero = () => {
           </h1>
 
           <p className="mt-5 text-lg md:text-xl font-medium text-(--color-text-muted) max-w-xl mx-auto md:mx-0">
-            A word appears. You pick the translation. You score points. Then you
+            A word appears. You pick the translation. You score points.
-            queue up a room and{" "}
+            Then you queue up a room and{" "}
-            <span className="text-(--color-accent) font-bold">
+            <span className="text-(--color-accent) font-bold">beat friends</span>{" "}
-              beat friends
-            </span>{" "}
             in real time.
           </p>
 

apps/web/src/routes/__root.tsx

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 import { createRootRoute, Outlet } from "@tanstack/react-router";
 import { TanStackRouterDevtools } from "@tanstack/react-router-devtools";
 import Navbar from "../components/navbar/NavBar";
-import NotFound from "../components/NotFound";
 
 const RootLayout = () => {
   return (
@@ -15,7 +14,4 @@ const RootLayout = () => {
   );
 };
 
-export const Route = createRootRoute({
+export const Route = createRootRoute({ component: RootLayout });
-  component: RootLayout,
-  notFoundComponent: NotFound,
-});

documentation/backlog.md

@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ Labels: `[feature]` `[infra]` `[security]` `[ux]` `[debt]`
 
 Things that are actively in progress or should be picked up immediately. Mostly operational risk and the remaining phase 7 hardening work.
 
+- **404 and redirect handling** `[ux]`
+  Unknown routes return raw errors. Add a catch-all route on the frontend for client-side 404s. Consider a Caddy fallback for unrecognized subdomains.
+
 - **React error boundaries** `[ux]`
   Catch and display runtime errors gracefully instead of crashing the entire app.
 
@@ -26,6 +29,9 @@ Things that are actively in progress or should be picked up immediately. Mostly
 - **Conditionally register OAuth providers** `[debt]`
   Better Auth logs warnings when social providers are registered without credentials (`Social provider google is missing clientId or clientSecret`). Instead of registering all providers unconditionally, only add a provider to the config when its credentials are present in the environment. Keeps local dev clean for contributors who don't have OAuth apps set up.
 
+- **Multiplayer GameService unit tests** `[debt]`
+  round evaluation, scoring, tie-breaking, timeout handling 
+
 ---
 
 ## next
@@ -111,8 +117,6 @@ Directionally right, timing is unclear. Revisit when the next/now work is done.
 
 Shipped milestones, newest first.
 
-- **04 - 2026 - 404 and redirect handling** - Unknown routes return raw errors. Add a catch-all route on the frontend for client-side 404s.
-- **04 - 2026 - Multiplayer GameService unit tests** - round evaluation, scoring, tie-breaking, timeout handling 
 - **04 - 2026 - Security headers with helmet** - Add helmet middleware to set secure HTTP response headers.
 - **04 - 2026 - Rate limiting on API endpoints** - At minimum: auth endpoints (brute force prevention) and game endpoints (spam prevention)
 - **04 - 2026 — Migrations in deploy pipeline** — Drizzle migrate runs as a CI/CD step before the API container restarts

documentation/notes.md

@@ -1,19 +1,5 @@
 # notes
 
-
-## prompt
-
-ive attached the readme of my project. this is my current task:
-
-task description.
-
-1. tell me which files you need to see to get the full context of the problem
-2. walk me text-only through the problem and the solution
-3. if we need to update multiple files: lets go through them one by one, no matter how many files
-4. if we go through a file, we'll do it slowly section by section, no matter how many sections
-5. how to name the current feature branch? also tell me when its time to git commit and provide a commit message
-6. if we have multiple options to do something, also always provide options that reflect current industry standards and best practices
-
 ## tasks
 
 - **IMPORTANT** db migrations have to be part of the deployment pipeline!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!