The 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. Four words carry that split, and they only work if they never blur.
Inside the app
You and other WantHave members, signed in.
- your 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; what it looks like out in the world is its lookbook.
- 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
Anyone with a link. No account needed.
- your sitenoun · a thing you publish
- wanthave.app/you— your page on the open web, no account needed to visit. It goes live the moment you claim a username: you design it, you decide which lists appear on it, and you hand out the link — your name, your look, and a lookbook for every list you've chosen to show.
- a lookbooknoun · one list, published
- A designed, share-by-link page for one list — made for looking, not editing. Pick a template, tune it in the design studio, hand the link to anyone. Public lists always have one — on your site at wanthave.app/you/birthday once you have a username, or a private share link until then. Friends-only and Private lists can add one — unlisted, or behind a password.
You are a profile. You have a site.
You keep lists — and the ones you publish get lookbooks.
More questions? The Help & FAQ page covers the rest.