Everything you can do with a waitlist, in about a minute
A short tour of what a waitlist is, how sharing works, and what the free plan actually includes - written for someone who has never used the product.
A waitlist is one thing you are keeping track of, shared at one link. You make it, you add guests to it, and you send the link to whoever needs to see it. That is the whole model, and everything below is a consequence of it.
Making one takes about a minute
You do not need an account to start. Open the create page, give the waitlist a name, and it exists - with a public link you can send to anyone. If you decide later that you want it saved to an account, you claim it with an email address and nothing you have built is lost.
The reason it works this way is simple: most people arrive with a thing to do right now, not a product to evaluate. Asking for an email first turns a one-minute job into a decision.
Everyone sees the same thing, live
The link updates itself. Anyone who has it open - on a laptop, a phone, a TV in the corner of the room - sees a change the moment you make it. Nobody needs an account to watch, nobody needs to refresh, and nobody has to be invited.
If you would rather it were not public, you can turn public access off in the waitlist's settings.
Putting it on a screen
Open the public link in any browser and go full-screen. The layout scales up and the numbers stay readable across a room. The same URL works as a browser source in streaming software, so an overlay keeps itself up to date without you touching it.
What the free plan actually includes
The free plan is the whole product at a smaller scale, not a trial:
- a small number of active waitlists, with a cap on guests in each
- real-time updates, the public link, and full-screen display
- no card, no countdown, no expiry
The limit you eventually hit is capacity - more waitlists, or more guests in one waitlist. That is the point at which paying makes sense, and there is a one-time option for people who just have a single event rather than an ongoing need.
What happens at the limit
The waitlist refuses the new guest and tells you the limit. It never quietly accepts data and hides the overflow behind an upgrade prompt. An earlier version of this product did exactly that on bulk imports, and people did not discover their data was wrong until much later. A refusal you can see beats a silent truncation you cannot.
Ready to try it? Making one is faster than reading about it.
Ready to make your own waitlist?
Free to start, and you do not need an account to try it.
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