Self-hosted viral waitlist with referral queue-jumping. Pay once.
Developers rent API docs, monitoring, secrets and webhook plumbing by the month for side projects that earn nothing yet. Self-hosted pay-once utilities cost less than one month of the SaaS they replace.
The tool this job usually means renting is LaunchList, at $29/mo — roughly $348 a year, every year. Queuecraft does the job for a one-time $79 — running on infrastructure you control.
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.
For developers, hosted page + embed widget pays off while you're shipping, not managing vendor accounts — and it's covered by the same one-time $79, not metered per month.
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."
For developers, referral queue-jumping pays off while you're shipping, not managing vendor accounts — and it's covered by the same one-time $79, not metered per month.
Signed verification links through Nodemailer. Unverified signups never credit referrers — and your deliverability and sender reputation stay yours.
For developers, double opt-in via YOUR SMTP pays off while you're shipping, not managing vendor accounts — and it's covered by the same one-time $79, not metered per month.
One-time $79 for the packaged 1-click Windows installer with updates — less than a single month of the alternatives.
Desktop app or a $5 VPS. Set your SMTP, pick the accent color, choose how many spots a referral is worth.
Paste the script snippet into any site (or share the hosted page) and watch the referral loop run: sign up, share, jump the line.
Queuecraft is $79, once. LaunchList at $29/mo — roughly $348 a year, every year. Queuecraft costs less than three months of LaunchList Pro — and a typical waitlist runs 3–12 months before launch. It pays for itself before launch day.
Queuecraft costs less than three months of LaunchList Pro — and a typical waitlist runs 3–12 months before launch. It pays for itself before launch day. Queuecraft costs $79 once; LaunchList charges $29/mo — about $348 a year. For developers, that fixed cost is the whole point: the tool is a one-time line item, not a monthly one.
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.
"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.