Built by a runner,
for runners.

I've been running ultramarathons for years. The racing part is hard enough — but the waiting might be worse.

Most ultras fill up fast. If you don't get in through the lottery or registration window, you end up on the waitlist. And then you wait. You check the page. You refresh. You count how many spots separate you from the start line. You do this for weeks, sometimes months.

There's no alert. No notification. No way to know if you've moved up unless you go look. And there's no way to see the trend — whether the waitlist is burning down fast or barely moving at all.

The problem

I was tracking my position on multiple race waitlists at once. Every day I'd open the same tabs, scroll to the same tables, Ctrl+F my name, and write down the number. I tried spreadsheets for a while. That lasted about a week.

What I actually wanted was simple: tell me when my position changes, and show me the trajectory so I can figure out whether I'm going to get in.

So I built it

Waitlist Tracker checks your position automatically and emails you when it changes. It tracks movement history so you can see trends — not just where you are today, but how fast you're moving and when the biggest jumps happen.

It started as a script I ran on my own machine. Then I made it a real thing because every runner I talked to had the same complaint. The waitlist experience is stuck in 2005 and nobody was fixing it.

What this isn't

This isn't a big company. There's no VC money, no growth team, no "synergy." It's a tool I built because I needed it, and I keep building it because other runners need it too.

If something's broken or you have an idea, I want to hear about it.