before.run — The Waitlist Platform
Beautiful waitlists without spam bots or cookie banners
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Beautiful waitlists without spam bots or cookie banners
8 followers
Create stunning waitlist landing pages in minutes. Collect signups, build hype, track analytics, and notify your team on Slack all before your product launches. Perfect for indie hackers, startups, and enterprises.
The brutal truth about coding before validating (Why your waitlist is your actual Day 1)
As developers, our reflex whenever we have a new idea is always the same: open the IDE, spin up a repository, and start coding the backend. We spend weeks or months perfecting the architecture, optimizing the database, and polishing features.
Then we launch... to absolute crickets.
The biggest mistake we make is treating validation as a post-development chore instead of Step 0. Building a waitlist page before you write a single line of your core product isn't just about collecting emails; it’s about testing if anyone actually gives a sh*t about the problem you are trying to solve.
If you can't get 100 people to drop their email on a clean, compelling landing page, they definitely won't pay for your product once you spend 3 months building it.
I leaned heavily into this mindset for my launch today. I built before.run specifically to abstract the tedious plumbing of setting up these validation pages (handling the Go backend, custom domains, and cookie-free PoW anti-bot protection) so you can deploy a live waitlist in under 2 minutes.
I’m curious about your validation framework: Do you build a waitlist before writing code, or do you prefer to have a functional MVP ready before showing it to the world? How many sign-ups do you consider a "green light" to actually start development?
Let’s talk!