# Sugar Slot

> A playful invent-a-sweet builder. Pick a base, up to three flavours, a finish, a shape, a wrapper and a name, see the sweet drawn and loaded into a vending machine, and find out whether it would sell: stock it, tweak it or rethink it.

URL: https://sugar-slot.skillsafe.ai/
API tutorial: https://sugar-slot.skillsafe.ai/api.html

## Free, in the browser
- A builder with 11 bases (hard candy to rock candy), 39 flavours in 15 families, 8 finishes, 8 shapes, 12 wrapper and lettering colours, who it is for (kids, teens, grown-ups, everyone, nostalgia) and a price in coins.
- A wrapper drawn in your colours with the name lettered on it (download it as SVG), and a vending machine with 12 coils: your sweet sits in B2, saved sweets fill the rest, and the keypad vends any coil into the tray.
- A flavour-pairing rule of thumb (not a taste test): every pair of families is classic, bold or a clash. Rough sweet, sour and kick gauges from the page's own estimates per flavour, nudged by the finish.
- Numbered flags. Red: a clashing pair, or a finish that fights the base (a sour dusting on chocolate, fudge or toffee; a soft centre in rock candy). Amber: three flavours with no classic pair, a finish that adds nothing, a name over 18 characters or 3 words (the coil label), a name of only everyday sweet words, lettering under 3:1 contrast on the wrapper, and for kids a grown-up flavour or a treat price.
- The verdict, by a fixed rule, first match wins: rethink it (any red flag); otherwise tweak it (any amber flag); otherwise stock it.
- Exports: Markdown, JSON, a CSV of flags, scores and fixes, and the wrapper as SVG; saved sweets in the browser, or in your account when signed in.

## Metered (gpt-terra), one task: ask the panel
- Five scores - craving, how it stands out, the name, the wrapper, and how it fits who it is for - each kept inside the range its flags allow (1-2 with a red flag, 2-3 with an amber one, 3-5 with none).
- One fix per flag using the app's own options, plus polish ideas; three new names that fit the coil label; a shelf card (a tagline and a short blurb on taste and texture); why someone would reach for it and why someone would pass.
- The page re-checks every reply: the verdict, each score's range, one fix per flag, the name ideas' length and flavours, a shelf card that names an unpicked flavour, any health, diet or allergy claim, and internal field names in the prose.

## Limits and honesty
- The pairing rule and the gauges are the page's own rules of thumb and estimates, not measurements. Sugar Slot is not a recipe and says nothing about ingredients, allergies or nutrition.
- The panel uses only what you picked and typed: no invented ingredients, places, events or people, and no brand names.
- Nothing is sent anywhere until you press "Ask the panel".
- Trend it answers: the English Wikipedia article on confectionery stores went from an average of about 34 views a day over 1-14 September 2026 to 30,937 on 19 October, 18,762 on 20 October and 18,070 on 21 October (Wikimedia daily page-view counts).

## Source
Built on the SkillSafe skill @erichowens/product-appeal-analyzer (https://skillsafe.ai/skill/@erichowens/product-appeal-analyzer): will people want it - desirability, standing out, identity fit, emotional pull and positioning.