9takes

See the emotions behind every take. One situation, 9 ways to see it.

9takes is a personality-based Q&A and content platform built around the Enneagram. Readers ask anonymous questions, swap perspectives with a "give-first" comment system, and dig into celebrity and pop-culture personality analyses.

• Live site: 9takes.com
• Stack: SvelteKit 2 + Svelte 5, Supabase (Postgres), Elasticsearch, TailwindCSS + SCSS, deployed on Vercel
• Content: MDsvex blogs + DB-backed personality analyses

Why the name

9takes comes from the 9 personality types within the Enneagram — 9 worldviews, 9 ways to read the same moment.

Repo layout (high level)

src/routes/        # SvelteKit pages, API routes, admin panel
src/lib/           # Components, server utils, email, analytics
src/blog/          # MDsvex content (community, enneagram, guides, pop-culture, …)
scripts/           # Generators, indexers, migration helpers
supabase/          # SQL migrations
docs/              # Brand, SEO, growth, planning, research

See CLAUDE.md for a thorough map of routes, admin sections, API endpoints, src/lib/server/ modules, env vars, and conventions.

Prerequisites

• Node >=22
• pnpm >=8
• Supabase project + service role key
• Elasticsearch instance (for questions search)
• A populated .env.local — see the Environment Variables section of CLAUDE.md

Quick start

pnpm install
pnpm gen:all     # Optional: regenerate types, sitemap, search index, etc.
pnpm dev         # http://localhost:5173

Common commands

pnpm dev                # Dev server
pnpm build              # Production build
pnpm build:vercel       # Build as Vercel runs it (with pre-generators)
pnpm check              # svelte-kit sync + svelte-check
pnpm lint               # Prettier check + ESLint
pnpm format             # Prettier write
pnpm test               # Vitest unit tests, single run (*.spec.ts)
pnpm test:unit          # Vitest in watch mode
pnpm test:smoke         # Playwright smoke tests (e2e/)
pnpm index:blogs        # Index MDsvex blogs into Supabase FTS
pnpm gen:sitemap        # Regenerate sitemap

Blog sections

Route	Source
/community	src/blog/community/ (MDsvex)
/enneagram-corner	src/blog/enneagram/ (MDsvex)
/how-to-guides	src/blog/guides/ (MDsvex)
/pop-culture	src/blog/pop-culture/ (MDsvex)
/personality-analysis	blogs_famous_people Supabase table (DB-driven)

/personality-analysis is managed through the admin UI at /admin/content-board and versioned in blogs_famous_people_history.

Corpus-wide numbers (type distribution, over-/under-representation by domain, pipeline cadence, and a side-by-side comparison against published Enneagram research) live at /corpus-stats and are regenerated on every Vercel deploy via scripts/generate-corpus-stats.js. The machine-readable copy is src/lib/data/corpus-stats.json (plus hand-curated src/lib/data/corpus-stats-external.json for the public-data comparison); the human-readable Markdown mirror blog commands pull from is docs/data/corpus-stats.md. /corpus-stats is the canonical public source to cite for any numerical claim about the 9takes corpus.

Testing

• Unit: Vitest. Specs live next to the code they test (src/lib/server/*.spec.ts, src/routes/**/*.spec.ts). Run pnpm test (single run) or pnpm test:unit (watch).
• Smoke: Playwright specs in e2e/. Run pnpm test:smoke.

Deployment

The repo deploys on Vercel via @sveltejs/adapter-vercel. pnpm build:vercel runs the personality-image-map, corpus-stats, sitemap, and llms.txt generators before building, so they stay in sync in production. pnpm build also enforces build budgets (scripts/check-build-budgets.mjs).

Cron endpoints (src/routes/api/cron/*) are triggered on schedule and require a CRON_SECRET bearer. The /api/update-questions webhook requires PRIVATE_WEBHOOK_AUTH.

Contributing notes

• Prefer Supabase RPC functions for complex queries — see examples in src/lib/server/.
• New Svelte components should use Svelte 5 runes ($state, $props, $effect, $derived). Legacy components still use export let / $: — migrate when you touch them.
• Unit-testable logic belongs in src/lib/server/*.ts so it can run without a browser.
• Brand voice: "Tactically Direct, Socially Savvy, Respectfully Provocative." See docs/brand/ before writing copy.

License

Proprietary — all rights reserved.