Changelog

What's new

Each release that changes what you can do here, latest at the top.

v1.7.0 · 22 October 2026

Invitations and a public case

Help for categories that are still thin.

Every member has a personal invite link (dashboard, or the get_invite_link tool). You hear once when someone you invited has a site approved. There are no credits or extras: the benefit is a fuller pool.
The dashboard shows which of your categories have fewer than 8 sites, which is where an invitation helps you most.
A public case page shows our own site on our own exchange, straight from the database: counts and dates only, never partner domains.

v1.6.0 · 22 October 2026

Replacements, reports and standing

A lost link no longer leaves you waiting, and standing now means something.

When a link is gone for good, the swap is closed and a new partner is proposed to the member who lost out straight away.
You can report a partner from an agreed swap (inbox or the report_partner tool). Nothing changes until an admin reviews it, and the partner is not told who reported them.
Standing now decides pairing. Owing two or more links ("behind"), or two links taken down or two upheld reports in six months ("restricted"), pauses new pairings until it improves.
Every admin decision, including report outcomes, is kept in an activity log.

v1.5.0 · 22 October 2026

Plans, redesign, hardening

Swapping stays free. This release adds an optional paid tier, a new look and a few safety measures.

New Plan page. Free: 2 sites. Pro: up to 10 sites, earlier pick among comparable candidates, and DR and placement filters in search. Payment and cancellation run on Stripe's own pages.
Site redesign: black background, serif headings, floating nav bar, new buttons, footer and sign-in screen.
Form validation errors are shown inline in our style instead of the browser's pop-up.
Domain Rating lookups are cached for a week, so asking about the same domain twice costs one Ahrefs call. A small batch endpoint can share that cache with other projects.
Cookie-carrying write requests from another origin are rejected. API-key requests are not affected.
Admins can dry-run the matcher for any site and see the scores, without creating anything.
Two operator commands: render every email for review, and send a one-off announcement to members who have not unsubscribed.
A new Account page: download everything we hold about you as a JSON file, or delete your account in one step. Deleting cancels any Pro subscription, closes swaps in progress so the other side is told, and removes all of your data.
The getting-started checklist now sits in the corner of every dashboard page, and a Connect your agent step ticks on the first real call with your key.

v1.4.0 · 21 October 2026

Pairing by score, quieter follow-up

Candidates are now ranked instead of merely filtered, and reminders got more careful.

Ranking uses category, DR distance, shared anchors, what each side offers, past generosity and waiting time. Pairs with a distant DR are never proposed.
38 categories, each with neighbours. Fewer than 8 sites in a category means it looks one neighbour out, and the pairing says so.
Sites can declare their offer: a link in an existing article, in a new post, or on a resources page.
Emails were redesigned and gained plain-text versions. New notices: link confirmed live (once, to both), link missing, pairing lapsed, partner waiting on you.
A missing link is retried for several days and both sides hear if it returns. After six misses we stop and say so.
Agreed swaps still waiting on your link prompt you at 3 days, then weekly for a month, then monthly.
Per-tool request limits live in the database and apply equally to web and MCP.
An optional language model drafts listings without ever seeing domain, URL or brand; its output is scrubbed, and a metadata fallback covers failures.
Domain Rating refreshes in batches, and only a real reading replaces a stored value.
Unsubscribing now also disables the API key and blocks new listings until you resubscribe.
The MCP endpoint moved to the official SDK, serving the 2024-11-05, 2025-03-26 and 2025-06-18 protocol revisions from one URL.

v1.3.0 · 21 October 2026

Digest and opt-out

A periodic email for members still waiting for a partner, plus a way out of every email.

Digest of fitting sites: weekly, fortnightly or paused. Never empty, never while a pairing is open.
It shows the candidates the matcher would consider, excluding anyone you have already passed on.
Each email links to a preferences page that works without JavaScript.
Unsubscribing pauses your sites and the digest but deletes nothing; agreed swaps continue, and the same link restores everything.
The link is signed, so an email address alone is not enough to pause someone.

v1.2.0 · 21 October 2026

Human review of new sites

Ground rule §01 now involves a person, not only an automatic parked-page check.

New sites wait as pending_review and are not paired until approved. You are emailed when one arrives and again with the decision and reason.
Declined sites can be fixed and resubmitted. Banned sites leave pairing and their open proposals close.
An /admin page for operators: queue, approve, decline with reason, ban, reinstate. Admins are configured by environment variable.
Sites show their status, and list_my_sites returns it with any decline reason.

v1.1.0 · 21 October 2026

Conversations in agreed swaps

After both sides accept you can talk inside the pairing.

Two-pane Inbox: pairings on the left; details, timeline and message box on the right.
Messaging opens only after mutual acceptance so free text cannot leak identities early. Ended exchanges become read-only.
Unread counters per pairing and on the Inbox tab; opening marks as read.
Reply notifications are throttled to one every few hours per swap and skipped while the thread is open.
Two more MCP tools, for reading and sending messages, make fourteen.

v1.0.0 · 21 October 2026

Twelve MCP tools

The toolset now spans the whole swap, from scouting to the ledger.

Three tools (rules, categories, partner search) work without a key; the others answer with the command that adds one.
submit_site is split into draft and confirm=true. Your brand is stripped from the public text.
Added set_matching_preferences (per-site DR minimum, both directions), check_links and get_my_standing.
Pairing states are filterable (proposed, a_accepted, b_accepted, agreed, placed, declined, expired). Proposals lapse after 14 days.
Withdrawing from an agreed pairing, with a reason, is possible until a link is live.
get_link_brief returns a snippet in html, markdown, mdx or jsx; mark_link_placed records position, rel and site-wide use.
Unreadable pages are logged as unconfirmed and retried, never as missing.
A supplied but invalid key now returns 401 rather than falling back to anonymous.

v0.3.0 · 21 October 2026

Docs, legal and comparisons

The pages around the product.

MCP and API docs: setup for four clients, authentication, a reference for each tool and a worked swap.
Privacy notice and terms based on what the code does.
Eleven comparison pages, each stating where the other product is stronger.
A web form for listing a site that carries you through sign-in and back.

v0.2.0 · 21 October 2026

Pairing, verification, local setup

The core loop: pair, place, verify.

Pairing inside category and DR range, one neighbouring category only when needed, and flagged.
Domain Rating via Ahrefs.
Reported links are fetched and classified, then rechecked at 7 days, 30 days and monthly; both sides are emailed if one disappears.
Email through Resend for new pairings, acceptances, placements and lost links.
Local setup with ./dev.sh: Supabase and the app in Docker on automatically chosen free ports.

v0.1.0 · 21 October 2026

First build

The first working exchange.

Sign-in by emailed link, GitHub or Google.
Dashboard for listing sites, answering pairings, reporting links and creating an API key (hash stored only).
An MCP endpoint with seven tools and a REST API on the same functions.
A landing page with an agent demo and the four ground rules.