Indie launches lean on invite-only betas, founding groups and waitlist waves, and Creem has no native pieces for them today. Three concrete gaps, all hit while designing our own invite beta:
Product visibility flag (unlisted/hidden). Today the only option is "don't share the link", and there's no documented statement of whether products are discoverable anywhere.
Purchase-access codes - a code required to buy at all, which is different from a discount. Without it, merchants build their own gate in front of your checkout, which is what we're doing.
Documented redemption limits on discount codes (single-use, max-N). These may exist; they aren't documented.
With those three, "run an invite beta on Creem" becomes a playbook you can own for exactly the indie audience you serve. Without them, every merchant hand-rolls the same gate. Keywords: law of diffusion of innovation drive increase demand
