Wintrust
Collect feedback from clients, decide what's allowed on your marketing site, and show only the endorsements you've approved—no copy-pasting DMs or losing track of who said what. Technically it's forms or email invites, a review dashboard, and a quote wall you can embed. Open source under hungrycheetah-studio/wintrust.
Visitors only see your site. They don't log into Wintrust. Behind the scenes, your website asks Wintrust for approved quotes you've already cleared in the dashboard—plus a database holds the data and optional email sends invite links.
Plain-language flow
Read top to bottom on the diagram, or scan this quick list:
- Someone visits your website—they never need a Wintrust login.
- The testimonial wall asks for quotes you've already approved (pending ones stay private until you say yes).
- Your site quietly forwards that request to the Wintrust service—the handoff in the middle of the diagram.
- Wintrust reads and saves data in a database; optional email can send invite links so people submit feedback securely.
Setup checklist (developers)
Environment variables, hosting, and embed paths—skip this if you're not touching the codebase.
- Deploy the Wintrust app (e.g. Vercel). Create a Supabase project and run Wintrust's migrations. Set
NEXT_PUBLIC_SUPABASE_URLandNEXT_PUBLIC_SUPABASE_ANON_KEYfor the dashboard; addSUPABASE_SERVICE_ROLE_KEY(or equivalent) so/api/testimonialscan return approved rows. - Register a site in the dashboard; copy its public
site_key. New submissions wait in a queue until you approve them, so the public wall only shows what you've signed off. - Optional email: configure
RESEND_API_KEYandRESEND_FROM_EMAILon Wintrust so invite links actually send. - Embed on your portfolio: install the
wintrustnpm package and render<Wall siteKey=… />. Browsers treat your marketing domain and Wintrust as different websites. Either setWINTRUST_EMBED_ORIGINSon Wintrust so the wall can call Wintrust from the browser, or forward (proxy)/wintrust-hc/*to Wintrust's/api/*viaWINTRUST_API_UPSTREAMand pointNEXT_PUBLIC_WINTRUST_API_URLat the same-origin path (this repo's pattern).
To show the live wall on this portfolio again, import the component at components/WintrustTestimonialsSection.tsx on whatever page should display testimonials.
Testimonials
Nag
CEO · Hungry Cheetah
★★★★★
Great guy to work with
Sam Rivera
Design lead
★★★★★
We needed a single path from "someone sent kudos" to "it's allowed on the homepage." Wintrust keeps pending and approved separate so the site only shows what we've actually signed off.
Priyanka Desai
Fundfina
★★★★★
I've had the pleasure of working with Naag at Fundfina. He's really skilled in design and has a talent for turning complicated ideas into practical designs. We collaborated on various projects during his time here, and I was consistently impressed by his commitment to creating innovative and user-friendly UI/UX solutions. Naag's enthusiasm, professionalism, and teamwork make him an amazing addition to any creative group. I highly recommend him for his dedication to excellence and his ability to consistently deliver exceptional design solutions.