An account that signs up through an invitation works on the inviter's
billing, so handing it a trial at signup spent its only trial before it
owned anything. The trial is now held back for collaborators and claimed
only explicitly: a Start Free Trial button on the new-workspace and
billing screens calls the new POST /api/billing/trial endpoint, which
grants the once-per-account trial atomically. Nothing starts the clock
as a side effect, and pure collaborators no longer see a trial-ending
banner about work that is not theirs.
The trial now starts inside the product, at email verification, and Stripe
grants none at all: checkout creates a subscription that bills immediately.
Verifying an address is what buys the seven days, which is also the cheapest
abuse control there is.
An unexpired trial is treated as an entitlement the account already holds, so a
Stripe sync can add access but never retracts a trial that has not run out. That
matters most for the abandoned checkout: the resulting incomplete subscription
carries no trial_end, and writing it through would have erased the days the
account still had and locked it out.
Unpaid accounts are bounded by what they can cost us rather than by what they
can do: one workspace, one project, 3 GiB of direct uploads. YouTube imports,
share links, guests, comments and approvals stay unlimited, because those are
the parts worth trying and they cost nothing. isPaidTier() is the new seam;
hasBillingAccess() answers a different question now that access no longer
implies a card.
Signup CTAs, the pricing card, the comparison pages, the terms and the refund
policy all said the trial converts to a paid plan by itself. It no longer does,
so they say what happens instead. Settings and a banner name both dates that
matter: when the trial ends, and the fifteen days after that during which
nothing is deleted.
/admin/growth compares the two funnels on signup to paid within a fixed 30 day
window, not trial to paid. Dropping the card requirement multiplies trials, so
the old ratio can fall while more people actually pay, and reading it that way
would retire the change for the wrong reason.
Both cookies were read straight into database columns after nothing more than a
format check. httpOnly keeps JavaScript out of them and does nothing about curl,
so the anonymous id was a string the caller picked: enough to write a first-touch
row for a visitor who never existed, to file it under a channel of their
choosing, and to claim that id's events at signup, since the backfill matches on
the id alone.
They are now signed with an HMAC over AUTH_SECRET, through Web Crypto rather than
node:crypto because the proxy runs on the edge and the pages that read the
cookies back run in Node. The first-touch body moved to base64url on the way:
cookie values are percent-encoded and decoded by several layers that do not agree
on how many times, and a payload carrying its own percent escapes comes back
subtly different and takes the signature with it.
Signing stops a caller choosing an id, not collecting one, since dropping the
cookie and asking for the landing page again mints another. So the bot and
prefetch filters moved to where the rows are written rather than only where the
cookies are issued, which also fixes a returning visitor's prefetch of /register
recording a signup start, and a per-client hourly ceiling now sits in front of
the write. The ceiling is skipped when TRUSTED_PROXY_MODE is unset, where every
caller resolves to 127.0.0.1 and the bucket would empty on real traffic long
before it emptied on a flood.
Four smaller things around it:
- /api/events checked the flag and the origin after paying for a rate-limit
write, so a host who never turned analytics on was still writing a row per
anonymous POST. Both checks are free and now come first, and the limiter
answers 204 rather than 429: a beacon has nobody to tell, and a flooder should
not be handed the reset time.
- /api/onboarding/source was keyed by IP on an authenticated route. Without
TRUSTED_PROXY_MODE that is five answers an hour for the whole deployment, and
with it a shared office address locks out everyone after one colleague
answered. Keyed by account, like /api/onboarding/complete beside it.
- The cookies took their Secure flag from request.nextUrl.protocol, which behind
a TLS-terminating reverse proxy is the container-internal http address. It
comes off the configured public origin now.
- sanitizeLandingPath took anything that started with a slash, including from the
cookie, so a hand-written one could put newlines and markup into a column an
admin table may render one day.
Also: the paid-account query had no LIMIT and returned every active account's
name and email, the growth route answered 403 where it meant 401, and the schema
claimed no free text is stored when self_reported_note holds 200 characters of it.
Adds first-party acquisition attribution and a sixteen-event funnel, written to
this deployment's own database and read back on /admin/growth. Nothing is sent
anywhere else, and the whole subsystem is off unless OPENFRAME_ENABLE_ANALYTICS
is set, so a self-hosted instance carries the tables empty and pays nothing.
The proxy gives a visitor an anonymous id and stores what brought them in two
first-party cookies; signup copies that onto the account and claims the events
the visitor produced before they had one, which is what joins the two halves of
the funnel. Recording happens where each step actually happens rather than in
the browser: an ad blocker cannot undercount landing views, and blocking rates
differ by channel, so an undercounted denominator would have made GitHub traffic
look like it converts better than it does.
Every event carries a dedupe key on a UNIQUE column, so "recorded exactly once"
is a property of the schema rather than of fifteen call sites. Subscription
events are derived by comparing the row being overwritten with the row being
written inside the existing Stripe sync, which makes them order-independent and
replay-safe.
The scoreboard reports step-to-step conversion with the denominator beside it,
and splits by source over a rolling 28-day window rather than a week: at this
volume a weekly per-source cell holds single digits, and a percentage computed
from three visits reads exactly as confidently as one computed from three
hundred.
"How did you hear about us?" is asked on the first onboarding screen, not on the
registration form. The number being measured is the signup conversion rate, and
a question added to that form would move it.
Clicking an invitation link while signed out dropped the visitor on a bare login form,
even though most invitees have no account yet and nothing on screen told them to create one.
Signed-out visitors now get the invitation itself: who invited them, which workspace/project,
which role, and which address it was sent to. The primary call to action follows whether an
account already exists for that address — "Create your account" when it does not, "Sign in to
accept" when it does.
The sign-up path carries the invitation forward, so a new account lands back on the invitation
and from there on the shared workspace/project instead of the onboarding wizard:
- the register link passes invitationToken, the invited email and a callbackUrl
- the register form locks the email to the invited address and shows what is being joined
- the verification email round-trips the destination through a sanitized `next` parameter
- login and verify-email keep the pending destination in their sign-in links
Signing in with a different address than the one invited now explains the mismatch instead of
silently redirecting to the dashboard.
Callback sanitization moves to lib/safe-redirect.ts so login, register, verify-email and the
verification route share one open-redirect guard.
- Introduced a new logger utility (`logError`) to standardize error logging.
- Replaced all instances of `console.error` with `logError` in various API routes and libraries.
- Enhanced error logging to sanitize sensitive information, particularly for Prisma and Stripe errors.
- Ensured consistent error handling and logging practices throughout the codebase.
feat(comments): add content length validation for comments and annotations
feat(guest-gate): restrict guest name length and update localStorage handling
feat(share-link-unlock): set maxLength for password input field
- Moved registration logic to a new client component for better separation of concerns.
- Integrated invite code requirement based on feature flags in the registration process.
- Enhanced dashboard functionality to conditionally enable Bunny uploads based on feature flags.
- Updated various components and API routes to check for Bunny uploads and Stripe billing feature flags.
- Added new feature flag utilities for managing feature toggles in the application.
- Introduce `withCacheControl` utility function for API responses.
- Apply `private, no-store` to authentication and data modification (POST, PATCH, DELETE) routes.
- Apply `private, no-cache` to sensitive data retrieval (GET) routes.
- Enhance security by preventing caching of private user data.
- Ensure fresh data is always fetched for authenticated API responses.
- Introduce dedicated error pages for dashboard and video routes
- Add specific not-found pages for dashboard, projects, videos, and settings
- Implement global `not-found.tsx` for general unhandled routes
- Integrate root and dashboard layouts with ErrorBoundary and Suspense
- Add new UI components: Accordion, Hover Card, Menubar, Navigation Menu, Select, Tabs
- Update Navbar to utilize the new Navigation Menu component
- Enhance `button` component with a `link` variant for better styling
- Refine existing UI components (dialog, dropdown, input, etc.)
- Update Tailwind config with new colors and animation extensions
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