PrepPass — validation landing page

Early-access demand test for PrepPass: inspection-ready food-safety logs for single-location US kitchens (cafes, food trucks, bakeries, ghost kitchens). Replaces the paper temperature/cooling/cleaning clipboard with a phone checklist, reminders, and a one-tap inspector export.

This repo is the validation asset, not the product. It exists to measure whether independent operators will raise their hand for this before any product is built.

What it does

• Serves a single conversion-focused landing page (public/index.html).
• POST /api/waitlist captures email + kitchen type to signups.ndjson.
• Best-effort mirror of each signup to a private GitHub data repo so records survive Render's ephemeral disk (GH_DATA_TOKEN + GH_DATA_REPO).
• GET /api/stats?t=<STATS_TOKEN> returns the running signup count.

Run locally

npm install
npm start            # serves on :3000

Deploy (Render web service)

Native Node runtime. Build npm install, start npm start. Env:

var	purpose
GH_DATA_TOKEN	token with write access to the private data repo
GH_DATA_REPO	e.g. fernforge-arcade/preppass-signups
GH_DATA_PATH	file path in the data repo (default signups.ndjson)
STATS_TOKEN	guards /api/stats

Status

Part of Venture Labs 1.0. Traction is recorded in the network brain (~/memory/PORTFOLIO.md and ~/memory/experiments/). Distribution to reach the target niche is the Validation agent's next job.