How it works

Demos sleep when nobody is using them and wake on the first request, which is what makes running several of them affordable. The first visitor after a quiet period waits about forty seconds; everyone after that gets an already-running container.

How access works

1. Someone sends you an invite link. The link carries an opaque token — nothing about it identifies you.
2. You redeem it once. If the invite covers several demos, you pick which one to open.
3. The gateway gives that browser a session scoped to that single demo host, and wakes the container if it is asleep.
4. Found a bug? Every demo carries a report button that files the issue against the right repo, with your screenshot attached.

Why invite-gated

These are unfinished projects on a small server. Gating them keeps the load predictable and keeps half-built features out of search results. It is not a paywall — invites are free and handed out on request.

The stack

A static Astro site for these pages, and a reverse proxy in front of every demo that handles invite redemption, per-host sessions, wake and sleep, and issue reporting.