A short glossary

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. 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 on Your site: one look for every page, or a page with its own. 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. Give it a look and a layout (a list, a grid, a ranking or a guide) on Your site, then hand the link to anyone. Public lists always have one, at wanthave.app/you/birthday once 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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