Per Meta's brand-use guidance for third-party products, the registered
trademark symbol (®) should appear on the FIRST mention of "WhatsApp"
on each user-facing page. Subsequent mentions on the same page are
left plain.
Surfaces touched (one-per-page first mention):
- Landing hero badge ("Built on the official WhatsApp® Business API").
- src/lib/seo/site-config.ts: SITE_TAGLINE and SITE_DESCRIPTION
(rendered into <title> and <meta description> on every page).
- src/app/opengraph-image.tsx: hero text in social-share image.
- Settings, Inbox connection banner, Automations page subtitle.
- README.md tagline.
- All public docs pages (docs/README.md, docs/whatsapp-setup.md,
docs/getting-started.md, docs/supabase-setup.md,
docs/environment-variables.md, docs/deployment-hostinger.md,
docs/automations-and-cron.md, docs/architecture.md,
docs/troubleshooting.md).
Out of scope: SITE_KEYWORDS (the meta-keywords array isn't
user-rendered text — putting ® on every keyword would look broken in
the meta tag).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Drops the "WaCRM" branded name across user-facing surfaces in favour
of a descriptive name. Branded names that imply WhatsApp ownership or
sponsorship are a trademark fair-use risk; a relationship-based name
("CRM Template for WhatsApp") sidesteps that.
Scope:
- Brand text in nav, sidebar, footer, docs shell, mock window chrome.
- SITE_NAME / SITE_DESCRIPTION / legalName in src/lib/seo/site-config.ts.
- README, CONTRIBUTING, docs/, .github/ templates and policies.
- package.json description.
- Auth pages, settings copy, FAQ, code comments.
Out of scope (intentionally — these are infra renames the project
owner should drive separately so links and the package lockfile stay
consistent):
- The github.com/ArnasDon/wacrm repo URL.
- The wacrm.tech domain / homepage field.
- The package.json "name" field.
- The Hostinger application name and Meta system-user name in deploy
docs (existing-deployment instructions).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The template is about shipping on Hostinger. Offering Vercel / Railway
/ raw VPS / Docker alongside it blurs that story and creates support
surface for hosts we don't actually test against.
- Delete docs/deployment-alternatives.md.
- README Deploy list drops the "Alternative hosts" bullet.
- docs/README.md reading-order drops step 6 and renumbers.
- docs/architecture.md drops its trailing "Next step" pointer to
the removed page.
- src/lib/docs/content.ts drops the deployment-alternatives entry;
remaining pages renumbered to 5..8.
Verified: /docs sidebar now lists 8 pages,
/docs/deployment-alternatives → 404.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Finishes the template-readiness sequence. All docs — nothing runtime.
README.md
Rewrites the landing page of the repo to actually sell what it is
to someone finding the repo cold on GitHub search.
- Shields.io badges: MIT, CI status, Next.js 16, Supabase, GitHub
stars.
- "What you get out of the box" bullet list — inbox, contacts,
pipelines, broadcasts, automations, dashboard, account
management — so the feature surface is visible before the reader
scrolls.
- "Why fork this?" section: full ownership, full customisation,
zero ops to start, real security primitives. Frames WaCRM as a
template, not an SDK.
- Docs section reorganised into Setup / Deploy / Reference to
match the in-app /docs viewer and docs/README.md.
- Contributing section rewrites the stale "Pull requests welcome"
line to match the fork-first framing from PR #73.
docs/architecture.md (new)
One-page tour for forkers: stack table, full folder layout,
two ASCII request-lifecycle diagrams (inbound webhook + outbound
send), security primitives rundown, and a "where to change things"
index that maps common customisation tasks to source files. This
is the thing I wish I'd had the first time I opened a forked
template.
docs/deployment-alternatives.md (new)
Short blocks for Vercel, Railway, raw VPS, and Docker. Each covers
env-var setup, cron strategy (Vercel cron without custom headers
is a footgun worth calling out), and trade-offs. Keeps Hostinger
as the primary recommendation — this page is for people whose
constraints rule it out.
docs/README.md
- Reading order grouped as Setup / Deploy / Reference, adding the
two new pages.
- Stack-at-a-glance updated: encryption is AES-256-GCM, not CBC
(the PR #71 change that earlier docs hadn't caught up to).
src/lib/docs/content.ts
Registers the two new markdown files in the ORDER map so they
appear in the in-app /docs sidebar under the Reference section,
with prev/next pagination wiring.
Verified: /docs, /docs/architecture, /docs/deployment-alternatives,
and /docs/getting-started all return 200 from the dev server.
Sidebar shows 9 pages grouped Setup / Deploy / Reference with the
new entries. Typecheck clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The webhook signature verifier used to fall open with a warning log
when META_APP_SECRET was unset — a deliberate soft-rollout choice that
is unsafe for a public template. A forker who forgets the env var
would be running a fully spoofable webhook: anyone knowing the URL
could POST fabricated status updates and drift broadcast counts.
Now:
- `verifyMetaWebhookSignature` returns false when the secret is missing
and logs at error level, so the route responds 401 to every POST
until the operator configures it.
- Docs mark META_APP_SECRET as **required**:
- docs/environment-variables.md lists it under Required, not
Recommended.
- docs/whatsapp-setup.md §6 is now "Signature verification (required)".
- docs/troubleshooting.md updated accordingly.
- .env.local.example lists the var with guidance on where to find it.
Also fixes a pre-existing gitignore bug: `.env*` was swallowing
`.env.local.example`, which meant forkers running
`cp .env.local.example .env.local` from the getting-started guide
hit "no such file". Added a negation for `*.example`.
Upgrade note for existing deploys: set META_APP_SECRET (Meta → App
Settings → Basic → App Secret) before updating, or inbound webhooks
will 401 until it's configured.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Swaps the Hostinger recommendation on the landing page and throughout the
docs from VPS to Managed Node.js Hosting
(https://www.hostinger.com/web-apps-hosting).
The deploy walkthrough is rewritten around hPanel's Node.js app flow
(Git-based deploy, env vars panel, AutoSSL, cron via Advanced → Cron Jobs)
instead of a raw Ubuntu VPS with nginx + PM2 + certbot. VPS stays
mentioned at the bottom of the deploy page as an alternative when a
user actually needs one (background workers, custom binaries, etc.).
Also touched:
- docs/README.md, environment-variables.md, automations-and-cron.md,
troubleshooting.md to drop VPS-specific assumptions.
- footer link URL.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds docs/ with a reading-order flow that covers:
- getting started (fork, install, run locally)
- supabase setup + migrations
- whatsapp business api + webhook wiring
- environment variable reference
- hostinger vps deploy walkthrough
- automations cron scheduling
- troubleshooting for the common issues
Rewrites the top-level README as a pointer into docs/ instead of the
create-next-app boilerplate.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
