Look up. They’re here.
Together is a face-to-face meeting concept in product discovery. It is designed to help people who are already in the same public place discover when the feeling is mutual and make the first hello easier. London is the first validation community, not the product mechanism.
The own-stack landing page is live at
together.hyperdrift.io. Its email form
stores a pending registration, sends an SMTP confirmation link, and counts only
confirmed registrations. The actual meeting app is deliberately not being
built until London demand is significant.
The registration boundary validates both email syntax and whether the domain can receive mail before creating a pending record. Temporary DNS failures fail open so infrastructure noise does not reject a valid person.
Local verification uses the file-backed test email transport:
pnpm testProduction delivery uses SMTP and expects SMTP_HOST, SMTP_PORT,
SMTP_USER, SMTP_PASSWORD, EMAIL_FROM, and SITE_URL. Registration data
is stored outside the deploy checkout at TOGETHER_DATA_PATH.
Operators can review totals and the latest registrations at /admin. The
production route is read-only and protected by Nginx Basic Auth; credentials
are managed by infrastructure rather than the application repository.