Everything we shipped this summer: profiles, reels, chimes, and painting on the car

I ship features faster than I write about them, and the backlog finally got embarrassing. Since late July, FrunkLab picked up creator profiles, a video exporter, on-car painting, a smarter AI library, and a sound generator that can talk. Most of you found some of these on your own. Almost nobody has found all of them, so here's the tour.

You have a profile page now

Every creator on FrunkLab has a public profile at frunklab.com/@yourhandle. It shows your published wraps, your themed designs, your follower count, and (new this week) a Sounds tab with the chimes you've shared. You pick your handle, write a bio, link your X account, and pin a featured wrap that greets visitors with a full 3D showcase.

Profiles come with a follow system. Follow creators whose style you like, then flip the gallery to "Following" and it becomes a feed of just their work. There's also a creators directory for finding people worth following in the first place.

If you've published anything, your profile already exists. Go claim the handle you actually want in your account settings before someone else grabs it.

Download Reel: your wrap as a video

Every design's hub page now has a Download Reel button. It renders a 6-second MP4 of your wrap on the rotating 3D car, lit by whatever scene you saved, sized square for social feeds. The camera makes exactly one full orbit across the clip, so when a platform loops it (X autoplays video on loop, for example), the end lands exactly on the beginning. No visible seam, just a car that spins forever.

The clip is watermarked with your profile URL, not ours alone: frunklab.com/@yourhandle. Post your wrap, and the credit routes people back to you.

Paint directly on the car

The Garage crossed its last big threshold this summer: the brush and both erasers now work directly on the 3D body. Pick the brush, drag a stroke across the hood, and paint follows your cursor over the curves, one clean undo step per stroke. The eraser works the same way, including the magic eraser's click-to-remove.

This closes the loop the Garage opened in June. Placing text and stickers on the car was already there; now freehand work is too, and the flat Blueprint panel is officially the precision instrument rather than the mandatory one. The Garage walkthrough covers the basics if you haven't been in yet.

Smaller editor upgrades landed in the same push, in both the Garage and the Studio: smart alignment guides that snap objects to each other and to center, align and distribute tools, a rebuilt layers panel with drag reordering and grouping, an eyedropper that can sample color from anywhere (including the 3D car), saved color palettes, and gradients with up to 6 stops plus radial mode.

My Generations: your AI images, kept

Every AI image you generate is now saved to a personal library called My Generations, in both editors. Re-applying a past generation to a design is free, it doesn't touch your monthly quota. Generate five candidates on a weekend, sleep on it, and place the winner on Tuesday without spending anything twice.

This replaced the old theme gallery button, and it's a better trade: instead of our premade themes, you get a growing library of your own taste.

Token packs, for heavy AI months

Monthly plans include a set number of AI generations, and most people never hit the ceiling. For the months you do, there are now one-time token packs, starting at $4.99 for 10 generations. Tokens never expire and only get spent after your monthly allowance runs out, so buying a pack never wastes your included generations. The pricing page has the full lineup, subscriptions and packs side by side.

The chime generator speaks

The AI lock chime generator on the Lock Sounds page launched in early August: describe a sound, get a Tesla-ready LockChime.wav in seconds. Then it got two upgrades worth calling out.

First, quality. A prompt like "alarm system activated" used to render as flat beeping. Now the generator interprets your description like a sound designer would, with length options and five style presets (sci-fi, retro, luxury, musical, cyberpunk).

Second, and this is the fun one: it speaks. Put words in quotes, "a robot voice saying 'vehicle secured'", and the chime clearly says them. My car currently announces "goodnight" when I lock it, and I have no plans to change that.

Everything you generate is auto-saved to My Chimes, attachable to any wrap design, and submittable to the new Community Chimes section for other owners to use. The full chime guide walks through prompts, settings, and the USB install.

Wrap ideas, organized

If you've ever wanted to browse designs for your specific car instead of the whole gallery, the new wrap ideas pages do exactly that: collections by model, with style sub-pages like Cybertruck camo or Model 3 minimal. They're built from real community designs, every one of them previewable in 3D and forkable into your own editor.

What ties it together

The theme of the summer, in hindsight: your stuff became yours. Your profile, your reel with your handle on it, your generation library, your chime library, your followers. FrunkLab started as a design tool; it's turning into a place where the things you make accumulate and travel with you.

All of it works on the free plan. Open the Studio or the Garage, make something, and go claim that handle.