Marketing apex

Show Pony follows the Money-Horse apex pattern: localized marketing HTML is boot-rendered into dist/pages/, and hostDispatch serves it on the apex. Login and the host dashboard live behind /login (admin SPA with MarketingShell chrome).

Before and after

Before (chapters 1–11): after you mount the foundation, the apex only exposes the host app — visitors hit /login and see the auth gate in marketing chrome, but / has no public landing yet.

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After (this chapter): / is the English marketing landing; /features and /pricing explain the product; legal pages share the same header/footer.

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Routes

Path	Page
/	English landing (default)
/de	German landing
/features	Features (EN)
/de/funktionen · /funktionen	Features (DE)
/pricing	Pricing (EN)
/de/preise · /preise	Pricing (DE)
/login	Host login + app

Surface	Local	Cloud
Host login (apex)	http://show-pony.localhost:4180/login	https://show-pony.kumiko.rocks/login
Demo invite (rooftop)	http://demo.show-pony.localhost:4180/e/rooftop-launch	https://demo.show-pony.kumiko.rocks/e/rooftop-launch
Acme invite (offsite)	http://acme.show-pony.localhost:4180/e/acme-offsite	https://acme.show-pony.kumiko.rocks/e/acme-offsite
Marketing (EN)	http://show-pony.localhost:4180/	https://show-pony.kumiko.rocks/
Marketing (DE)	http://show-pony.localhost:4180/de	https://show-pony.kumiko.rocks/de

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Boot render

At startup, renderAllMarketingPages() writes static HTML under dist/pages/<lang>/…. Production hostDispatch checks the path first; only non-marketing apex paths fall through to admin.html:

const dispatched = dispatchShowPonyApexStatic(path);
if (dispatched !== null) return dispatched;
return { kind: "html", file: "admin.html", injectSchema: true };

— from bin/main.ts

Auth in marketing chrome

client-admin.tsx wraps the login card in MarketingShell (same header/footer tokens as the static pages) via AuthShellProvider — pixel parity with the landing without duplicating CSS.

Next: Legal pages.