Changelog
What we shipped, what we broke, what we fixed. A public record of changes to houjiayan.com and api.houjiayan.com.
- 2026-09-26 Removed
DeepSeek retires legacy model IDs — gateway in sync
- DeepSeek officially deprecated deepseek-v4-flash and deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp; both IDs removed from the gateway — calls to the old names now fail, use deepseek-flash instead
- DeepSeek lineup on the platform is now two models: deepseek-flash and deepseek-v4-pro
- Platform total adjusted to 35 models across 7 upstream providers
- 2026-09 Shipped
DeepSeek V4.1-Flash launch, unified 3% channel fee, modality tabs
- DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash live as deepseek-flash (legacy ID deepseek-v4-flash kept as a compatibility alias); peak ¥2/¥8 per 1M tokens, 50% off off-peak, cache hits billed at 1/50 of input
- Payment-channel service fee unified at 3% (WeChat and USDT-TRC20 identical)
- Model square gains modality group tabs (text chat / multimodal understanding / speech / specialized capabilities)
- Welcome email for new signups now arrives within about a minute of registration
- 2026-06-26 Shipped
Main site overhaul + api.houjiayan.com rebranding
- Launched new main site at houjiayan.com with full i18n (English + Chinese)
- Rebranded api.houjiayan.com from default NewAPI to HOUJIAYAN API
- Added architecture, status, and disclaimer sections to the About page
- Added GDPR cookie consent banner to all pages
- Set 11 chat models with real pricing (was placeholder $75/1M across the board)
- Added nginx sub_filter layer to override HTML title and brand meta tags
- Built /status page with live health checks on 5 components (auto-refresh 30s)
- Built /changelog and /docs pages for transparency
- 2026-06-16 Shipped
iOS app factory: PetPlate AI v1.0 submitted to App Store
- PetPlate AI (iOS) passed App Store review, now live in 175 countries
- Annual subscription $39.99, weekly $4.99 with 3-day free trial
- 2026-06-08 Shipped
Cloudflare Pages: project migration to auspac-spark
- Migrated www.houjiayan.com hosting to Cloudflare Pages with custom domain
- DNS-only access removed; full Pages + Workers + R2 + Account scopes restored
- 2026-05-30 Shipped
HOUJIAYAN API gateway soft launch
- Self-serve user registration enabled
- Initial upstream: DeepSeek (2 models) + Qwen (4 models) + MiniMax (4) + Volcengine Ark (1)
- API endpoint live at api.houjiayan.com with OpenAI-compatible interface
- 2026-05-12 Milestone
Brand registered: HOUJIAYAN API
- Trade name registered in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China
- Operator entity: Inner Mongolia Huozhong Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. (内蒙古火种智能科技有限公司, HOUJIAYAN Intelligence)