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⏳ Run a Waiting List Before You Launch

Turn the app you built for yourself into something other people pay to use. These prompts add the parts that make a tool into a product: customer sign-in, plans and trials, limits that mean something, a billing lifecycle that handles the awkward cases, and an admin view so you can see who is actually using it. The unglamorous half nobody enjoys assembling.
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Run a Waiting List Before You Launch

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I am building something and I want a waiting list before I launch. Build me a waiting list app. Give me a public sign-up page collecting an email, a name, and one qualifying question I choose, such as what they are trying to solve or what they use today. Record the sign-up date and give each person a position. Let me release invites in batches that I select, either manually or by a rule such as everyone who gave a particular answer, and generate a unique invite link for each person that expires after a period I set. Show each person their position and whether they have been invited. Track how many invited people actually sign up. Add an AI agent that reads the free-text answers and groups people into the handful of problems they are really describing, so I can see which group to serve first and invite them ahead of the rest. Automate three things: a confirmation on joining, an occasional honest progress update to the whole list, and a reminder to anyone invited who has not signed up. Two logins: a public sign-up needing no account, and an owner who manages releases.

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01 / Spark - intelligence awakens

Run a Waiting List Before You Launch

Collect and qualify waiting list sign-ups, release invites in batches, show position, and group people by stated need.

// the spark catches · intelligence awakens · the answer unfolds

A waiting list is the cheapest research available and the safest way to launch. This collects interest, asks the one question worth asking, and lets people in in batches.

What's Included

  • A sign-up page that asks one qualifying question.
  • Invites released in batches so problems stay small.
  • Position and progress shown which keeps people interested.
  • An assistant that groups people by what they actually want.

How To Use

  1. Ask one qualifying question. It is worth more than the email address.
  2. Release in batches. The first ten will find everything wrong.
  3. Keep the list warm with occasional honest updates.
  4. Invite the people whose problem you solve best first.

Follow with onboarding, and announce progress on the changelog page.