Engineering story

How we built RiskFreeTrial

A Cloudflare Workers product for risk-free trials: track trials, buy portfolio credits, refund with structured feedback, and (owner-gated) connect merchant Stripe accounts for refund intelligence.

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Runtime: Cloudflare Workers + static ASSETS binding for marketing pages.
Data: D1 (AUTH_DB for merchant tables; shared domains DB for portfolio credit ledger).
Billing: Portfolio billing service binding so leaf domains checkout without hub bot-fight POSTs.
Auth: Clerk / OpenAuth session paths for dashboard and merchant API.
Merchant product: Flag-gated behind MERCHANT_CONNECT_ENABLED (default off).

Product surfaces that are live today

Consumer landing — never get surprise-charged framing.
Credits hub + checkout — catalog packs, Stripe publishable key on page.
Dashboard — trial tracking.
For builders — honest hub integrate path + merchant dashboard entry.
Merchant dashboard shell — UI for Connect/refund intelligence when enabled.
API dual-cover: /api/merchant/intelligence/preview (public demo JSON) and auth-gated /api/merchant/* routes.

What is intentionally not “done” without the owner

Stripe Connect app registration, automation-credit price IDs, and flipping MERCHANT_CONNECT_ENABLED=true are owner console steps. The code paths exist; go-live is not a waitlist and is not auto-marked complete by the platform.

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How we built RiskFreeTrial

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Product surfaces that are live today

What is intentionally not “done” without the owner

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