{
  "venture": "waitwise",
  "edition": "2026-10-05-v1.1",
  "generated_at": "2026-10-05T20:40Z",
  "method": "Curated appointment-relevant public sources only after productization reevaluation. Not a live scrape of government schedulers. Not market proof.",
  "product": "passport_appointment_prep_primary",
  "commerce": "OFF",
  "spend_usd": 0,
  "signals": [
    {
      "id": "src_campnab_reviews",
      "title": "Campnab customer reviews (paid campsite alerts)",
      "url": "https://campnab.com/reviews",
      "themes": ["appointment", "camping", "wtp_claim"],
      "note": "Published reviews describe paying for sold-out campsite alerts. CLAIM, not our customer.",
      "provenance": "public_competitor"
    },
    {
      "id": "src_passportalerts",
      "title": "PassportAlerts — USPS passport appointment alert waitlist",
      "url": "https://passportalerts.com/",
      "themes": ["appointment", "passport"],
      "note": "Competitor positioning: stop refreshing RCAS; SMS/email alerts launching. Independent of Waitwise.",
      "provenance": "public_competitor"
    },
    {
      "id": "src_usps_finder_oss",
      "title": "USPS Passport Appointment Finder (open source)",
      "url": "https://github.com/JackieQi/USPS-Passport-Appointment-Finder",
      "themes": ["appointment", "passport"],
      "note": "README pain: official scheduler hard to use when slots scarce.",
      "provenance": "public_oss"
    },
    {
      "id": "src_bouliane_finder",
      "title": "Nicolas Bouliane — appointment finder project writeup",
      "url": "https://nicolasbouliane.com/projects/appointment-finder",
      "themes": ["appointment"],
      "note": "Describes long waits / missing appointments as motivation to build tooling.",
      "provenance": "public_writeup"
    },
    {
      "id": "src_visa_termin",
      "title": "visa-termin-alert (open source)",
      "url": "https://github.com/noworneverev/visa-termin-alert",
      "themes": ["appointment", "visa"],
      "note": "Secondary theme only — embassy slot bots are brittle / often shut down.",
      "provenance": "public_oss"
    }
  ]
}