Who
I got tired of watching production workers invent their own Stripe and GitHub throttles.
Every SaaS eventually grows a Friday-night 429 story. Someone hard-codes a sleep. Someone else adds a Redis queue "just for this provider." Zapier looks fine until flood protection is the product and connector count is the brochure.
Coordinator is for operators who want a hosted control plane for rate limits, retries, backoff, and replay. before they pretend the SDK already ships. Production teams who need queue depth and provider health readable in one zinc panel. Builders comparing Zapier / Make / n8n on backpressure instead of logo walls.
If you have ever paused a HubSpot sync because the provider blinked, this is for you.
What
I built Coordinator. package name coordinatorapp, version 0.1.0, private under HurleyUS/coordinatorapp.com. Metadata: Smart API Queueing & Rate Limiting. Tagline energy: Connect. Queue. Execute. Hero: Reliable queues for the APIs your product depends on.
Stack facts from the lockfile and tree, not the stale sitrep: Next.js 16.2.6, React 19.2.6, Tailwind 4.3, Bun, Convex, Clerk, Stripe checkout/portal/webhook with dynamic price_data, Sentry, PostHog, GA. Fifty-two commits. HEAD b7e9b3b.
Surfaces that exist: / zinc lander with DashboardPreview (24,891 queued / 1,204 429s prevented / 2.4s retry; Stripe / GitHub / HubSpot rows), /pricing, /docs (every guide card says Coming soon), /privacy, /terms, /sign-in, /sign-up, /events/[eventId], Stripe API routes under app/api/stripe/.
Convex tables: waitlist, events, attendees, users, subscriptions, addOnPurchases. Waitlist mutation + WaitlistForm exist. not wired into the May redesign homepage. Event RSVP (Mar 20 #31) tracks capacity, dietary notes, confirmed/tentative/cancelled.
Money path split brain: live pricing page sells Starter Free / Pro $29/user/mo / Business $79/user/mo. lib/billing.ts (what checkout reads) prices Starter $19, Pro $49, Business $149, plus Extra Executions $19 and Priority Support $99. OPPORTUNITIES still promises an n8n backend. There is no n8n in the tree. Homepage teases coordinator.queue(...), the SDK is marketing, not a package.
Where
Code: github.com/HurleyUS/coordinatorapp.com. private. Live: www.coordinatorapp.com (HTTP 200, apex 307 to www). GitHub homepage: coordinatorapp-com.vercel.app (same prerender etag). X-Robots-Tag: index, follow from the Aug 8 vercel.json fix.
Audience sits next to Zapier / Make / n8n / Tray. flood protection and retry observability as the wedge. Sibling operator furniture: Blacksmith ship gates, Biome, Stripe snake_case webhook casting, Enterprise mailto michael@hustlelaunch.com.
When
2026-01-08. ae06d85 init Next/Convex/Tailwind. Same day OPPORTUNITIES + PLAN. Zapier competitors, flood protection, n8n-powered claim on day one.
2026-02-06. 2b54644 ship landing page: Next 16, dark theme, queue visualization.
2026-02-13–22. Stub pages, Clerk middleware + env validation, strip unverified SOC 2 claim, Navbar/Footer, Sentry, PostHog, site config, error/loading/not-found.
2026-03-17–18. www / Clerk middleware 500 debug cascade (aliases, middleware off, vercel.json thrash). robots, sitemap, GA, next-themes. Waitlist + Convex backend.
2026-03-20–22. Event signup form + attendee management (#31). Stripe standardization + webhook type casting.
2026-05-13–15. shipprep + Blacksmith CI / deploy verification burst.
2026-05-22, 06:09 ET. 3eec7ae redesign, the live zinc control-plane lander.
2026-08-08, 06:54 ET. b7e9b3b set X-Robots-Tag to index, follow. HEAD. Fifty-two commits.
Pack day 2026-09-08. Live Chromium shots. www 200. Sign-in: Clerk keys required. sitrep.md still says prototype / no auth / Feb 6. treat as drift.
Why
I did not want another automation brochure with a fake connector grid and no backoff story.
I wanted a control plane face. queued requests, 429s prevented, retry delay. before the worker existed. I wanted Stripe subscription sync and Convex waitlist/events on disk even while docs say Coming soon and the homepage SDK call is a <pre>.
So January named the category. February shipped the face. March fought www 500s, captured waitlist emails, bolted on event RSVP, and hardened Stripe. May redesign locked the zinc hero. August flipped robots on a live site that still needs Clerk env vars.
Would you fix the pricing page to match billing.ts, or ship Clerk keys to www before anyone can Start with GitHub?