Rewards Search Platform

The product asks something unusual of its users: install software on your personal computer and let it run searches on your behalf. That makes trust the central design problem. The website had to explain a novel earning mechanism clearly, answer safety objections head-on, is it a virus, what data does it collect, will it slow my machine down, and convert visitors into applicants while the operator kept beta access controlled.

On the member side, the product needed a dashboard where users could watch their balance grow, track referrals, and request payouts to PayPal or a crypto wallet, with every screen backed by the operator's API and gated behind verified accounts.

We built access control in two tiers: Next.js middleware blocks all dashboard routes for visitors without a session token, and a second gate inside the dashboard layout checks the profile's email-verification flag and redirects unverified users into the OTP flow. Every earning and payout screen inherits both protections with no per-page code.

Dashboard state, balance, earnings, referrals, payout history, API key, verification status, lives in a single Redux Toolkit slice with async thunks per API resource, so multiple screens share one consistent source of truth and one error-handling path.

The home page is sequenced as an objection-handling funnel: how it works, registration call-to-action, testimonials, a general FAQ, and a second, dedicated safety FAQ covering data privacy, malware concerns, bandwidth usage, and ad-personalization effects, followed by a contact form and an always-available live chat widget.

Registration collects name, email, and password with inline validation and required terms acceptance, then immediately pushes the new user into email OTP verification before any dashboard access. Login, logout, forgot-password, and reset-password flows all run against the API, with the session held in a cookie and cleared automatically when the API reports a server-side session problem.

Inside the sidebar-navigated dashboard, members get a Get Started guide, a balance overview with referral and payout tables, profile management, and a dedicated earnings view separating total earnings from referral commission. Payout requests accept either a PayPal email or a BTC wallet address, the form enforces exactly one method, validates wallet format, and surfaces field-level API errors onto the right inputs. Requests are created as operator-reviewed tickets with Pending, Approved, and Rejected statuses visible in a full payout history.

Every member gets a shareable referral link. When a visitor arrives with a referral parameter, the app stores the attribution locally, cleans the URL, and attaches the referrer to the eventual registration payload, so attribution survives browsing across pages before sign-up. For the gated beta, the dashboard includes an API-key validation screen with a path to the external application form, and a Downloads page that surfaces the member's key once issued.