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Author here - will be writing up a blog post soon about building the waitlist / referral system. Any questions/comments appreciated!

I love these "skip ahead w/ referrals" systems, because they're so incredibly easy to cheat - sorry about that!

Am very much looking forward to checking the app out.

Ha - no problem, just happy to get people signed up. Gaming the system is "fair game".

What frameworks/techniques did you use making the site? Very appealing!

It's a custom designed site with a rails backend, pretty simple.