# Nashoni Chronicles — Product Overview

Nashoni Chronicles is a daily crime story platform. Every day, a new AI-generated, editorially structured crime narrative is published with original cover art, multi-language translation, and fast, distraction-free reading.

## What the app does
- Publishes a new crime story every day automatically
- Generates SEO-optimized titles, excerpts, and tags
- Creates atmospheric AI cover images for each story
- Translates stories into 100+ languages on demand (with caching)
- Tracks reader views (including anonymous visitors)
- Surfaces today's story, most popular, and recent stories on the homepage

## Key features
- Today's Story hero section (true daily rotation)
- Most Popular section ranked by view count
- Dual auto-scrolling story sliders (left-to-right and right-to-left) with pause-on-hover
- Category browsing: Procedural, Noir, Cold Case, Heist, Forensic, White-Collar, Wrongful Conviction, True Crime
- One-click translation with auto-detect and manual language selection
- Cached translations for instant repeat reads
- Reading progress tracking and "Continue Reading"
- Lazy-loaded images for fast page loads
- Dark and light themes
- Search and infinite-scroll category pages
- Authenticated comments and profile management
- Admin dashboard for review and publication

## Target users
- Daily readers of crime fiction and true crime
- Multilingual audiences who want translated stories
- Writers, podcasters, and screenwriters seeking prompts
- True crime enthusiasts and forensic-procedural fans

## Integrations
- Lovable Cloud (managed backend, database, auth, storage)
- Lovable AI Gateway (story + image generation, translation)
- Google / Bing / AI crawlers (GPTBot, PerplexityBot, Claude-Web)

## Benefits
- A fresh, original story every single day
- Read in your own language with one click
- Fast, lightweight, mobile-friendly
- No paywall on daily stories
- SEO-optimized for discoverability
- Secure: row-level security, role-based admin access
- Privacy-respecting view counting (no login required to read)