Tickwell

A demo app built with Elements.

Keyed issues on a drag-and-drop board and a filtered list, with comment threads, a full change history, assignment emails and CSV import, all live.

Demo: Tickwell

• Agent: Claude Code, Opus 5.5 Medium
• Time: 20 min
• Cost: $7.25 at API rates, September 2026

elements create tickwell -scaffold=elementscode/demo-tickwell

Tickwell needed a board and a list that every teammate sees change at once, a history of every edit, email when work is assigned or discussed, team invites and CSV import. Each of those is a part of Elements, so the agent spent its 20 minutes on the tracker itself.

• A live board and list. Issues are a LiveTable opened per project. Dragging a card is an update through the view, so every open board and list moves with it. Comments and the issue history are LiveTables too.

• History in one place. The board, the form and the importer all create issues through one function, and every update compares the row before and after inside a transaction, recording each changed field. A database trigger hands out keys such as WEB-14.

• Email from background jobs. Assignments, comments and invites each schedule a job that sends its email, inside the same transaction as the change.

• Invites and roles. Admins invite teammates by email through an @rpc, and every rpc and LiveTable handler checks the signed-in user and their role.

• CSV import as a function call. The import page sends the file to an rpc for a preview, then inserts each row through the project's live view, so open boards fill in as the issues land.

• Data from SQL files. Two migrations define the tracker and seed three teammates, two projects with 19 issues, their history and comments, and a pending invite.

The project server runs alongside the agent and answers as soon as a file is saved: it type-checks the templates, TypeScript and SQL, applies migrations and reruns the tests, so every question came back right away and the agent kept building.

The app type-checks with zero errors and all 31 tests pass. Every page works on desktop and phone, and live updates arrive across tabs, such as a card dragged to a new column.

The seed creates two projects, Web app (WEB) and Platform API (API), with 19 issues spread across every status, comment threads and a change history on the busiest ones, and a pending invite. Every account's password is tickwell123, and the sign-in page lists them.

In development, emails (invites, assignments, comments) are written to .elements/logs/job.log instead of being sent.

Demo: Tickwell

MIT. See LICENSE.