Founder-to-founder loop
Every accepted signup receives a code and URL, so the next referral starts without a manual handoff.
Founder referral loop
Join the next founder cohort and get your own share link.
Enter with any invite code or join directly. We will preserve attribution when the code exists, place you on the waitlist, and issue a private referral URL you can share immediately.
Durable waitlistDirect signup
Honest attribution
Unknown codes are stored as attempted attribution, while valid codes increment the referrer and keep the signup clean.
Share-ready success state
The confirmation state exposes position, code, copy, and native share actions so the loop completes on the page.
Product-led infrastructure
Designed as durable SaaS infrastructure, not a throwaway form.
The referral surface is backed by a domain package, a persistent Prisma model, a typed Next.js route, and public smoke checks that can run after ECS deploys.
Data
One durable waitlist table
Email uniqueness, auto-incremented position, referral code indexes, attempted attribution metadata, and status transitions live in the platform database.
API
Typed join endpoint
The page posts to `/api/waitlist`, normalizes arbitrary codes, returns existing entries idempotently, and never depends on a sample code.
CI/CD
Deploy-time public smoke
Canonical and alias URLs are ready for automated checks so ECS delivery catches route, DNS, and health regressions.