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before.run — The Waitlist Platform
Beautiful waitlists without spam bots or cookie banners
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.
Lately, I’ve noticed a lot of "tired developers" starting their launch posts by declaring exactly how exhausted they were by some mundane workflow 😉
Look, I’ve never found building a waitlist exhausting. It’s just an email form, after all. But it’s definitely a bad use of time. If you can use a tool that sets up the whole production-ready infrastructure in two minutes instead of wasting a Friday night writing boilerplate code, why wouldn't you?
I built before.run to abstract that plumbing. It’s a headless, privacy-first waitlist manager that gives you a clean landing page, a dashboard, or a raw API endpoint in seconds.
If you click around the site, you'll see the blog section is completely empty. I'm writing all the technical guides myself and I refuse to artificially bloat the site with AI-generated SEO slop just to look busy. Content is coming.
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!
About before.run — The Waitlist Platform on Product Hunt
“Beautiful waitlists without spam bots or cookie banners”
before.run — The Waitlist Platform was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 4 upvotes and 2 comments, placing #73 on the daily leaderboard. 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.
before.run — The Waitlist Platform was featured in Productivity (655.7k followers), Marketing (465.8k followers) and SaaS (43k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 269.7k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted before.run — The Waitlist Platform?
before.run — The Waitlist Platform was hunted by Łukasz Oleniuk. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Łukasz Oleniuk