A short glossaryThe words we use
WantHave has an inside and an outside. Inside is the app — you, signed in, keeping lists. Outside is the open web — the part anyone can visit without an account. One rule carries the whole vocabulary:
WantHave means signed in. Site means the open web.
Inside the app · signed in
- your WantHave profilenoun · a role
- Who you are to signed-in members: the you people follow, search, and meet in Discover. You are a profile; you have a site.
On the open web · no account needed
- your sitenoun · a thing you publish
- Your whole presence on the open web — a front page at wanthave.app/you, plus a page for each list you publish. No account needed to visit. It goes live once you claim a username (and keep your profile public): you design it, you decide which lists show on the front page, and you hand out the link — your name, your look, your lists.
Inside the app · signed in
- your WantHave listnoun · the working copy
- The thing you build inside WantHave: items, notes, prices, dibs. Add things, reorder them, mark them bought — editing happens here and only here. Who can see it is a setting; how it looks to the open web is its site list. One list, two worlds.
On the open web · no account needed
- a site listnoun · your list, for visitors
- Your list, as the open web sees it — designed, share-by-link, made for looking, not editing. Pick a template, tune it in the design studio, hand the link to anyone. Public lists always have one — at wanthave.app/you/birthdayonce you've claimed a username, or a private share link until then. Friends-only and Private lists can add one that's link-only: unlisted, or behind a password.
You are a profile. You have a site.
You keep lists — and the ones you publish get site lists: same list, other world.
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