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March 2026: Closing in on beta

March 2026: Closing in on beta

March was about getting ready to ship.

The architecture is solid. The features are taking shape. The work this month shifted from building systems to making them ready for real users — hardening flows, polishing the experience, and expanding to new surfaces.

Here's what we shipped:

1. Hardening critical flows

Before beta, the core experience needs to be reliable — not just functional, but predictable under real conditions. This month we focused on several paths that needed tightening.

User registration and social sign-in

We hardened the user registration flow, including Apple and Google sign-in. Registration is the first thing a new user experiences, and it needs to work flawlessly. It's much more robust now.

AI content indexing

Our AI features depend on content being properly indexed as users add it to their walls. We've made significant improvements to the indexing pipeline this month to ensure content is reliably processed and available for AI queries — setting the stage for AI Chat and other AI capabilities to work well in practice.

Web performance with local caching

We've implemented IndexedDB-based caching on the web app, which allows Walling to store and serve data locally in the browser rather than making a network request for every interaction. The result is a noticeably faster, more responsive experience — especially when navigating between walls and collections you've recently visited.

Sharing and invite flows

Collaboration is central to Walling. We've hardened the sharing and invite flows to handle a wider range of scenarios correctly, ensuring that inviting teammates and sharing walls behaves reliably for everyone involved.

2. UI/UX design and consistency

We've been applying cleaner, more modern shared styles across the web app, mobile app, and Chrome extension — bringing them into tighter visual alignment.

This isn't a visual overhaul. It's a step toward coherence. When you move between surfaces, the experience should feel like one product.

3. Mobile progress

Quick note in the inbox

We've added a quick note feature to the Walling Inbox on mobile — capture a thought instantly, without deciding where it belongs, and it lands in your Inbox for later. It's a small addition that changes how you reach for the app throughout the day.

Improved editing experience

We've continued improving the mobile editing experience, making it more intuitive and responsive. Getting editing right on mobile is hard — the constraints are different from web — but it's essential for Walling to be a tool people want to use away from their desk.

Cloud sync

Data now syncs reliably and consistently between the mobile app and the cloud — handling edge cases, offline states, and conflict resolution correctly.

Here's a look at the new mobile app in action:

4. Chrome extension

We built a Chrome browser extension that lets you save content from any webpage directly to your Walling Inbox or workspace.

While browsing, you can capture a page link and add your own context — a note, a thought, a connection to something else you're working on — right in the moment, without leaving the tab. Everything lands in your Inbox, ready to organize when you're ready.

This extends Walling's capture layer to the browser, alongside the mobile Share Extension we shipped in February. A lot of idea discovery happens while browsing — now Walling is there too.

Here's a look at the new browser extension app:

Closed beta

We said Q2 in February. We're on track.

We're aiming to start with around 50 to 75 testers. If you're interested in being part of the closed beta, sign up here — we'll be in touch as we get closer to launch.

Looking ahead to April

In April, the focus shifts to the final push. We're hardening the UX to make sure the first experience lands well, preparing the mobile app and Chrome extension for distribution, and getting the beta program itself ready — communications, onboarding, and the infrastructure to support our first testers.

Beta is weeks away. We'll be in touch soon.

— The Walling Team

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