Sometimes the best UX fix is the one that requires no new infrastructure. Here's how we added YouTube thumbnails and real video titles to ClipCrafter project cards — using only what was already in the database and what YouTube freely provides. The problem Project cards on the dashboard looked like this: Title: YouTube video (8fcJ4Y-uxCw) Thumbnail: none Status badge, timestamp, action buttons Not great. Users couldn't tell their projects apart at a glance. The fix seemed obvious — store the real title and a thumbnail URL. But that would mean: A database migration to add a thumbnail_url column A backfill for existing rows Storing the title at upload time We did none of those things.…