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Claim your handle

Every waitlist you’ve ever joined promised you something.

Early access. Bonus points. A perk ladder that unlocks on launch day. The pitch is old enough that nobody even says it out loud anymore: get in early, and early will pay you back.

majjha.fun has a claim page now, and it breaks that pitch on purpose. I’d rather walk you through what it does — and the much longer list of what it doesn’t — before you hand us an email.

What claiming gets you

Pick a handle, leave an email, and two things are yours: the name, set aside for you until the room opens, and a founding number that marks how early you showed up. Fifth person to claim, founding #5. Forever. There’s a card to go with it, if showing it off is your style.

And that’s the end of the list. No Dots bonus. No special powers when the room opens. No early anything. The number will never turn into a reward, a discount, or anything with value hanging off it — not at launch, not later, not ever. It’s status, full stop, and status is all it’s ever going to be.

The email’s job is just as small: one note when the room opens, then silence.

Why that’s still worth it

Because on a free app with no money in it, in or out, exactly two things are genuinely scarce — and the claim page happens to hold both.

Your name is one. Handles are one per person, and the good ones go the way good names go everywhere. The record you’ll build here — the calls, the streaks, the tough reads — all of it hangs on a handle. If your reads are going to sit on the board for everyone to see, they may as well sit under the name you actually wanted.

The number is the other. Founding numbers only count up, and once a number is given out it’s never given out again. A small one says a single thing, permanently: this person was here before you. It can’t be bought afterwards and it can’t be improved — the only way to a smaller one was to have shown up sooner.

Most waitlists have to invent their scarcity. Ours came built in.

The part where we’d normally rush you

This is the paragraph where the countdown usually shows up. We don’t have one. No closing date, no ticking clock, no last-chance banner.

The only pressure is the honest kind: other people. Somebody else wants the handle you want. Somebody is about to take a smaller number than you. Both get a little truer every day, and neither is something we made up.

Do with that what you like. Go pick your name.

— majjha