Dibs

Cafés, salons and clinics still run their waiting lines on a clipboard or a crowd at the door. You can't step away without losing your place, and the business can't tell who has given up and left.

Dibs swaps the line for a QR code. Scan it, join from your phone, and go wait wherever you like. Dibs tells you when it's your turn.

The first version went from an empty repo to a working queue in three days: owners, customers, businesses with open hours and time zones, joining and cancelling, ticket numbers that reset every day, and a live dashboard.

Everything runs on Convex, so a new ticket, a called number or a paused queue shows up on every screen the moment it happens, with no refresh.

The whole point is that customers don't install anything, so the 'you're up' ping can't come from an app. Web Push works in any browser tab on Android and desktop, but on an iPhone only once the site has been added to the home screen.

So WhatsApp is the fallback. When an owner calls the next ticket, the person at the front gets 'you're up', whoever is three places from the front gets a heads-up, and every attempt on every channel is logged.

Dibs is the one side quest that charges. The free plan runs a real queue at one location, up to 75 tickets a month, with browser notifications.

Pro and Business add the things that cost money to run, like WhatsApp messages, which are paid for one by one, plus more locations, team members and deeper analytics. Billing runs on Razorpay subscriptions with GST invoices.