New signups were redirected to /dashboard/subscription (the paywall):
91% of them hit it and 78% bounced without ever searching a VIN (PostHog,
30d). Acquisition is strong (homepage -> register) but activation was the
cliff — only 13% of new users ever reached the search page.
- register: redirect signups to /dashboard/search?welcome=1 (value-first),
carrying the landing-page VIN + referral code across.
- search: read welcome/vin/ref params; prefill a carried VIN and auto-decode
it once the activation modal is dismissed (no re-typing); strip params after.
- WelcomeOnboardingModal: the old full-page provisioning view is now a modal
over the search page. It applies the referral (covers the Google OAuth
signup path), starts the trial, plays the Remotion onboarding motion, then
steps aside so the user lands on their vehicle's parts.
- trial_started now fires for every eligible new user (was a rarely-clicked
button) — this populates the Onboarding funnel, which previously read 0.
- tests: add useSearch to the router stub; refresh the stale retry-CTA tests
to the shipped submit-doubles-as-retry behavior (retry CTA dropped in a33deef).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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