asyncup-dev · akumar-99 · Jun 11, 2026 · Jun 11, 2026
@@ -1,7 +1,14 @@
-# AsyncUp
+<p align="center">
+  <img src="docs/public/logo.svg" alt="AsyncUp" width="96" height="96">
+</p>
 
-[![CI](https://github.com/asyncup-dev/asyncup/actions/workflows/ci.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/asyncup-dev/asyncup/actions/workflows/ci.yml)
-[![License: MIT](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MIT-blue.svg)](LICENSE)
+<h1 align="center">AsyncUp</h1>
+
+<p align="center">
+  <a href="https://github.com/asyncup-dev/asyncup/actions/workflows/ci.yml"><img src="https://github.com/asyncup-dev/asyncup/actions/workflows/ci.yml/badge.svg" alt="CI"></a>
+  <a href="LICENSE"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MIT-blue.svg" alt="License: MIT"></a>
+  <a href="https://asyncup-dev.github.io/asyncup/"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/docs-asyncup--dev.github.io-15435f" alt="Docs"></a>
+</p>
 
 **Open-source, self-hosted async daily standups for Google Chat.**
 No meetings, no SaaS, no telemetry — one small container you run yourself, forever free.

@@ -4,7 +4,20 @@ export default defineConfig({
   title: 'AsyncUp',
   description: 'Open-source, self-hosted async daily standups for Google Chat',
   base: process.env.DOCS_BASE || '/',
+  head: [
+    ['link', { rel: 'icon', type: 'image/svg+xml', href: `${process.env.DOCS_BASE || '/'}favicon.svg` }],
+    ['meta', { name: 'theme-color', content: '#15435f' }],
+    ['meta', { property: 'og:title', content: 'AsyncUp — async daily standups for Google Chat' }],
+    [
+      'meta',
+      {
+        property: 'og:description',
+        content: 'Open source and self-hosted: standup prompts, date threads, blocker tracking, AI summaries with your own key.',
+      },
+    ],
+  ],
   themeConfig: {
+    logo: '/logo.svg',
     search: {
       provider: 'local',
     },

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+import DefaultTheme from 'vitepress/theme';
+import './style.css';
+
+export default DefaultTheme;
@@ -0,0 +1,188 @@
+/**
+ * AsyncUp brand theme
+ * Ink ocean blues + sunrise amber, matching the logo.
+ */
+:root {
+  --au-ink: #15435f;
+  --au-ink-deep: #0e2f44;
+  --au-amber: #ff8a3d;
+  --au-amber-soft: #ffae52;
+  --au-sand: #fff4e6;
+
+  --vp-c-brand-1: #176d94;
+  --vp-c-brand-2: #1d83b2;
+  --vp-c-brand-3: #15435f;
+  --vp-c-brand-soft: rgba(23, 109, 148, 0.14);
+
+  --vp-button-brand-bg: var(--au-amber);
+  --vp-button-brand-border: var(--au-amber);
+  --vp-button-brand-text: #3b2204;
+  --vp-button-brand-hover-bg: var(--au-amber-soft);
+  --vp-button-brand-hover-border: var(--au-amber-soft);
+  --vp-button-brand-hover-text: #3b2204;
+  --vp-button-brand-active-bg: #f07b2e;
+  --vp-button-brand-active-border: #f07b2e;
+
+  --vp-home-hero-name-color: transparent;
+  --vp-home-hero-name-background: linear-gradient(115deg, #15435f 30%, #ff8a3d);
+  --vp-home-hero-image-background-image: radial-gradient(
+    circle at 50% 45%,
+    rgba(255, 174, 82, 0.55) 0%,
+    rgba(23, 109, 148, 0.35) 55%,
+    transparent 72%
+  );
+  --vp-home-hero-image-filter: blur(56px);
+}
+
+.dark {
+  --vp-c-brand-1: #5cb6dd;
+  --vp-c-brand-2: #7cc6e6;
+  --vp-c-brand-3: #1d83b2;
+  --vp-c-brand-soft: rgba(92, 182, 221, 0.16);
+  --vp-home-hero-name-background: linear-gradient(115deg, #7cc6e6 25%, #ffae52);
+}
+
+.VPHero .VPImage {
+  border-radius: 22%;
+  box-shadow: 0 18px 50px rgba(21, 67, 95, 0.35);
+}
+
+.VPNavBarTitle .title {
+  font-weight: 700;
+  letter-spacing: -0.01em;
+}
+
+.VPFeature {
+  border: 1px solid transparent;
+  transition: border-color 0.25s, transform 0.25s;
+}
+.VPFeature:hover {
+  border-color: var(--vp-c-brand-1);
+  transform: translateY(-2px);
+}
+
+/* ---------- landing-page sections ---------- */
+
+.au-section {
+  max-width: 1152px;
+  margin: 0 auto;
+  padding: 48px 24px 8px;
+}
+.au-section h2 {
+  border-top: none;
+  font-size: 26px;
+  text-align: center;
+  margin-bottom: 8px;
+}
+.au-section > p.au-sub {
+  text-align: center;
+  color: var(--vp-c-text-2);
+  margin: 0 auto 32px;
+  max-width: 560px;
+}
+
+.au-steps {
+  display: grid;
+  grid-template-columns: repeat(3, 1fr);
+  gap: 20px;
+}
+@media (max-width: 720px) {
+  .au-steps { grid-template-columns: 1fr; }
+}
+.au-step {
+  background: var(--vp-c-bg-soft);
+  border-radius: 14px;
+  padding: 22px 22px 18px;
+  position: relative;
+}
+.au-step .num {
+  display: inline-flex;
+  align-items: center;
+  justify-content: center;
+  width: 34px;
+  height: 34px;
+  border-radius: 10px;
+  background: linear-gradient(135deg, var(--au-amber-soft), var(--au-amber));
+  color: #3b2204;
+  font-weight: 800;
+  margin-bottom: 12px;
+}
+.au-step h3 { margin: 0 0 6px; font-size: 17px; }
+.au-step p { margin: 0; color: var(--vp-c-text-2); font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.55; }
+
+/* chat thread mockup */
+.au-thread {
+  max-width: 660px;
+  margin: 0 auto;
+  background: var(--vp-c-bg-soft);
+  border: 1px solid var(--vp-c-divider);
+  border-radius: 16px;
+  padding: 22px 26px;
+  font-size: 14px;
+  line-height: 1.5;
+}
+.au-thread .day {
+  font-weight: 700;
+  color: var(--vp-c-text-1);
+  padding-bottom: 10px;
+  border-bottom: 1px solid var(--vp-c-divider);
+  margin-bottom: 14px;
+}
+.au-msg {
+  display: flex;
+  gap: 12px;
+  margin: 14px 0;
+}
+.au-msg .avatar {
+  flex: none;
+  width: 34px;
+  height: 34px;
+  border-radius: 50%;
+  display: flex;
+  align-items: center;
+  justify-content: center;
+  font-size: 17px;
+  background: var(--au-sand);
+}
+.dark .au-msg .avatar { background: #3a3022; }
+.au-msg .bubble {
+  background: var(--vp-c-bg);
+  border: 1px solid var(--vp-c-divider);
+  border-radius: 12px;
+  padding: 10px 14px;
+  flex: 1;
+}
+.au-msg .who { font-weight: 600; margin-bottom: 4px; }
+.au-msg .q { color: var(--vp-c-text-3); font-size: 12px; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 0.04em; margin-top: 8px; }
+.au-msg .q:first-of-type { margin-top: 0; }
+.au-msg .blocked { color: #c2410c; }
+.dark .au-msg .blocked { color: var(--au-amber-soft); }
+.au-wrapup {
+  margin-top: 16px;
+  background: linear-gradient(135deg, rgba(255, 174, 82, 0.16), rgba(23, 109, 148, 0.12));
+  border-radius: 12px;
+  padding: 12px 16px;
+  font-weight: 500;
+}
+
+/* comparison table */
+.au-compare table { width: 100%; display: table; }
+.au-compare th:first-child { width: 38%; }
+.au-compare td:nth-child(2) { font-weight: 600; }
+
+.au-cta {
+  text-align: center;
+  padding: 40px 24px 72px;
+}
+.au-cta a.button {
+  display: inline-block;
+  background: var(--au-amber);
+  color: #3b2204;
+  font-weight: 700;
+  border-radius: 24px;
+  padding: 11px 26px;
+  transition: background 0.2s;
+  text-decoration: none;
+}
+.au-cta a.button:hover { background: var(--au-amber-soft); }
+.au-cta .alt { display: block; margin-top: 14px; color: var(--vp-c-text-2); font-size: 14px; }
@@ -4,10 +4,13 @@ layout: home
 hero:
   name: AsyncUp
   text: Async daily standups for Google Chat
-  tagline: Open source. Self-hosted. No meeting required.
+  tagline: Open source. Self-hosted. Your data, your keys, your database — no meeting required.
+  image:
+    src: /logo.svg
+    alt: AsyncUp
   actions:
     - theme: brand
-      text: Get started
+      text: Get started →
       link: /guide/getting-started
     - theme: alt
       text: View on GitHub
@@ -16,20 +19,103 @@ hero:
 features:
   - icon: 💬
     title: One-tap standups
-    details: A DM card opens a four-question form — yesterday, today, blockers, mood. No chat interrogation.
+    details: A DM card opens a four-question form — yesterday, today, blockers, mood. Edit until the deadline; the posted card updates in place.
   - icon: 🧵
     title: Tidy date threads
-    details: Every answer lands as one card per person under the day's thread in your team space.
+    details: Every answer lands as one card per person under the day's thread. The wrap-up posts the count and exactly who's missing.
+  - icon: 🏖️
+    title: Away-aware
+    details: Skip-today button, vacation mode, and automatic Google Calendar OOO sync — away people are never nagged or counted as missing.
+  - icon: ⚠️
+    title: Blockers that follow up
+    details: Blockers open from answers, auto-resolve on the next clean submission, and escalate to a contact when they go stale.
   - icon: 📊
-    title: Accountability built in
-    details: Choose whose updates are mandatory — the wrap-up posts the count and exactly who's missing.
-  - icon: 🌍
-    title: Timezone-aware
-    details: Prompts go out at the configured time in each participant's own timezone, with a reminder nudge before the deadline.
+    title: Insights built in
+    details: Mood trends, weekly digests, anonymous team-mood mode, CSV export, and a token-gated web dashboard for config and history.
+  - icon: 🤖
+    title: AI summaries, your key
+    details: Opt-in daily TL;DR and week-in-review via your own Anthropic or OpenAI key. Nothing leaves your infra otherwise.
   - icon: 🪶
     title: Lightweight forever
-    details: One small container with SQLite inside. Scale-to-zero friendly, no telemetry, MIT licensed — never SaaS.
+    details: One ~300 MB container on 1 vCPU / 512 MB. Embedded SQLite by default — or bring your own PostgreSQL with one env var.
   - icon: 🔌
     title: Platform-agnostic core
-    details: Google Chat today. Slack and Microsoft Teams adapters are on the roadmap, plus bring-your-own-key AI summaries.
+    details: Google Chat today; Slack and Microsoft Teams adapters are next on the roadmap. MIT licensed, never SaaS.
 ---
+
+<div class="au-section">
+  <h2>How a morning works</h2>
+  <p class="au-sub">No meeting, no interrogation bot — one card, one form, one thread.</p>
+  <div class="au-steps">
+    <div class="au-step">
+      <span class="num">1</span>
+      <h3>The bot DMs your team</h3>
+      <p>At 09:30 in <em>each person's own timezone</em>, everyone gets a card with a <b>Fill standup</b> button — yesterday pre-filled from their last "today". One gentle reminder before the deadline.</p>
+    </div>
+    <div class="au-step">
+      <span class="num">2</span>
+      <h3>Answers thread up neatly</h3>
+      <p>Each submission posts as a card under the day's thread in your team space. Re-submit to edit in place. Skips, vacations, and calendar OOO show as away — never as missing.</p>
+    </div>
+    <div class="au-step">
+      <span class="num">3</span>
+      <h3>The wrap-up holds the line</h3>
+      <p>At the deadline: who submitted, who didn't, open blockers, team mood — plus an optional AI TL;DR and a weekly digest with trends.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="au-section">
+  <h2>What your team space sees</h2>
+  <p class="au-sub">A real thread from a Wednesday.</p>
+  <div class="au-thread">
+    <div class="day">📅 Daily Standup — Wed, 11 Jun</div>
+    <div class="au-msg">
+      <div class="avatar">😄</div>
+      <div class="bubble">
+        <div class="who">Asha</div>
+        <div class="q">Yesterday</div>
+        Shipped the payments retry queue
+        <div class="q">Today</div>
+        Start on the invoice exports
+        <div class="q">Blockers</div>
+        ✅ None
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="au-msg">
+      <div class="avatar">😐</div>
+      <div class="bubble">
+        <div class="who">Rohit <small>· edited</small></div>
+        <div class="q">Yesterday</div>
+        Auth refactor review rounds
+        <div class="q">Today</div>
+        Land it, then pick up the flaky e2e
+        <div class="q">Blockers</div>
+        <span class="blocked">⚠️ Waiting on staging API keys (2d)</span>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="au-wrapup">
+      📊 Wrap-up &nbsp;·&nbsp; ✅ 7/8 submitted &nbsp;·&nbsp; ❌ Missing: Dev &nbsp;·&nbsp; 🏖️ Away: Mei &nbsp;·&nbsp; ⚠️ 1 open blocker
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="au-section au-compare">
+  <h2>Why self-host AsyncUp?</h2>
+  <p class="au-sub">Hosted standup bots charge per user per month and hold your team's daily history.</p>
+
+| | **AsyncUp** | Hosted standup bots |
+|---|---|---|
+| Cost | $0 forever — MIT licensed | Per user, per month |
+| Your standup history | In **your** SQLite file or Postgres | On their servers |
+| AI features | Bring your own key, opt-in per standup | Their model, their terms |
+| Infrastructure | One small container, scale-to-zero friendly | — |
+| Customization | Questions, schedules, escalation, dashboard — and the source code | What the plan allows |
+
+</div>
+
+<div class="au-cta">
+  <h2>Up and running in 15 minutes</h2>
+  <a class="button" href="/guide/getting-started">Read the guide</a>
+  <span class="alt"><code>docker compose up -d</code> — amd64 &amp; arm64 images on GHCR</span>
+</div>