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Waitlist

AI Apps (MCP)

The Waitlister connector lets an AI app work with your Waitlister account. You add its address to the app and sign in with your Waitlister account. The assistant can then answer questions about your waitlists and make changes for you.

The connector's address:

code
https://mcp.waitlister.me/mcp

Add the Connector to Your AI App

The connector works with Claude (claude.ai and the Claude desktop and mobile apps), ChatGPT, Claude Code and Codex. These are each app's steps today. The apps' own menus may be named differently later, and an app's plan or workspace settings decide whether you can add a connector.

Claude

  1. Open this link. It opens Claude's custom connector form with the name and address filled in. Or go to Customize → Connectors, select Add, then Add custom connector, and enter Waitlister and the address.
  2. Click Continue, keep the options marked Detected, click Add, then Connect.

Once connected, the connector works in Claude on the web, desktop and mobile.

ChatGPT

  1. Go to chatgpt.com/plugins, select the plus button, then Add custom MCP server.
  2. Enter a name and a description, and the address under Connection.
  3. Choose OAuth for authentication, select I understand and want to continue, then Create as a plugin.
  4. Find the plugin on the Plugins page under Personal → Created by me, select the plus button to install it, and connect when ChatGPT asks.

Claude Code

Run:

bash
claude mcp add --transport http waitlister https://mcp.waitlister.me/mcp

Then type /mcp in Claude Code, choose waitlister, and sign in in your browser.

Codex

Run:

bash
codex mcp add waitlister --url https://mcp.waitlister.me/mcp

If Codex doesn't open the sign-in in your browser, run codex mcp login waitlister.

Signing In and Choosing Access

  1. On the first screen, under Access, choose View and change or View only, then click Continue to Waitlister. View only lets the assistant read. View and change also lets it make changes.
  2. Sign in to Waitlister if you aren't already. The next page shows the app and the account it will connect to. Click Connect. You may be asked for your password or your Google account again. To connect another account, click Use a different account.
  3. You're taken back to the AI app, connected.

Claude Code and Codex appear on these pages, and in Connected apps, as "a program on this computer that identifies as Claude Code" (or Codex).

We email you when an app is connected to your account.

What an Assistant Can Do

Viewing

  • Your account and plan
  • Your waitlists
  • A setup check of a waitlist, with anything that needs fixing
  • Launch reports: sign-ups, views and conversion over time
  • Your subscribers, found by status, tag, join date or search
  • One subscriber, with the emails Waitlister sent them and their delivery status
  • The referral leaderboard
  • Tags and how many subscribers have each
  • Your landing page's content and whether it's live

Changing

With View and change access, an assistant can also:

  • Change a subscriber's name, phone number and points
  • Add or remove tags, for one person or many
  • Delete subscribers
  • Create a waitlist
  • Create a landing page and edit its text. A page made with the AI builder is changed with the AI builder, while it isn't live.
  • Generate a landing page with the AI builder, on a page that isn't live. Each generation uses one AI credit, as in the dashboard.
  • Publish and unpublish a landing page

Things to Ask

  • "How did my waitlist do over the last 7 days, compared with the week before?"
  • "Is my waitlist set up correctly?"
  • "Which of my waitlists got the most sign-ups in the last 7 days?"
  • "How many subscribers are tagged beta?"
  • "Tag everyone tagged beta with early-access."

What It Doesn't Do

The connector doesn't send or draft emails, and it doesn't add subscribers. Billing, your team, integrations, webhooks, custom domains, waitlist settings, imports, exports, and deleting or resetting a waitlist stay in the dashboard.

Changes You Confirm on waitlister.me

These changes need your confirmation on waitlister.me:

  • Deleting subscribers
  • Changing points
  • Tagging more than 100 people at once
  • Publishing or unpublishing a landing page
  • Editing a live landing page

For these, the assistant gives you a link. The page it opens shows what will change. Nothing changes until you open it, signed in to the Waitlister account you connected, and confirm. You can also click Discard. A link works for 60 minutes.

Plans and Team Members

The connector works on every plan and follows your plan as the dashboard does. For example, Free shows its earliest 100 subscribers, and subscriber profiles with email history start on Launch, as in the dashboard. See pricing for what each plan includes.

Team members see the waitlists they belong to, with their role, and each waitlist follows its owner's plan. Viewers can't make changes.

Managing Connections

Go to Settings → Connected apps to see each connected app, with its access (View and change or View only), when it was connected and when it was last used. Click Disconnect to end a connection right away.

A connection also ends when you change or reset your password, turn on two-factor authentication, 90 days after you connected, or after 30 days without use. The AI app then asks you to connect again.

Your Data

The AI app receives what it asks for through the connector. That can include your subscribers' names, email addresses, phone numbers, sign-up details and survey answers. What the app's provider does with that data is covered by that provider's terms.

Waitlister keeps a record of each connection and of each change made through it for 180 days. The record holds ids and the type of action, not subscriber data. See our privacy policy.

The Local MCP Server

@waitlister/mcp on npm is a separate, older way to use Waitlister from AI apps that run MCP servers on your computer. It uses an account API key and follows the API's plan rules. See API authentication. The connector on this page needs no API key.

Troubleshooting

"Connecting isn't available right now"

New connections are paused for now. Try again later.

"This connection request has expired"

The sign-in wasn't finished in time. Go back to your AI app and connect again.

The assistant says it can't make changes

The app was connected with View only. In Connected apps, disconnect it, then connect again and choose View and change. If you're a viewer on a team waitlist, the owner or an admin can change your role on the Team page.

A confirmation link works for 60 minutes, only for the Waitlister account that connected the app, and only while that connection lasts. Ask your assistant to make the change again, and open the new link signed in to that account.

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