🎟️ Queuecraft
Self-hosted viral waitlist with referral queue-jumping. Pay once.
Queuecraft at a glance
| Price | $79, once — no renewal |
| Replaces | LaunchList at $29/mo — roughly $348 a year, every year |
| Type | Web app — self-hosted |
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
| Category | Developer Tools |
Queuecraft features
🚀 Hosted page + embed widget
Every waitlist gets a page at /w/your-slug and a one-line script snippet — shadow-DOM isolated, so your site's CSS never bleeds in.
🔗 Referral queue-jumping
Every signup gets a unique link; each verified referral moves them up N positions (you pick N). "You're #42 of 1,203 — refer 3 friends to jump the line."
✉️ Double opt-in via YOUR SMTP
Signed verification links through Nodemailer. Unverified signups never credit referrers — and your deliverability and sender reputation stay yours.
📣 Broadcasts
"We're live!" emails to everyone, verified-only, or your top-N superfans, with position and referral-link placeholders.
🛡️ Anti-spam that actually ships
450+ disposable email domains blocked, per-IP rate limits, honeypot field, Gmail dot/+tag dedupe, self-referral prevention, per-IP referral-credit caps.
📤 CSV export, zero lock-in
Email, name, position, referral count, verified status, source — your list is a SQLite file on your disk, exportable anytime.
🔁 Reliable sending
All mail goes through a SQLite-backed queue with retry, so a bad SMTP config can never lose a signup.
🖥️ Desktop or VPS
Run it as a Windows desktop app, or docker compose up on a $5 VPS. Unlimited waitlists, unlimited subscribers.
$79 once — that's the whole pricing page
LaunchList charges $29/mo — roughly $348 a year, every year. Queuecraft is a single payment, and it keeps working whether or not we ever sell another copy.
Or get Queuecraft inside the full suite — every app in the catalog, currently $97 for the bundle. See the bundle →
Queuecraft guides & pages
Honest answers
Is it really free on GitHub?
Yes — MIT source at github.com/bensblueprints/queuecraft-mvp, always. If you're comfortable with npm i && npm start it's free forever; the $79 buys the 1-click Windows installer for people who'd rather not touch a terminal.
Does the referral mechanic actually work?
"Refer friends to jump the line" is the exact loop behind Robinhood's, Superhuman's and Monzo's million-person waitlists. Queuecraft implements it with computed ranking — position is always calculated from verified referral points, never stored, so it can't drift.
What stops people gaming the queue?
A lot, honestly: only verified (double-opt-in) signups credit referrers, disposable email domains are blocked, Gmail dot/+tag variants dedupe to one entry, self-referrals are detected, and referral credits are capped per IP. Determined fraudsters exist, but the cheap tricks all bounce.