fix: 🐛 address pr comments

apps/website/components/hero.jsx

@@ -29,6 +29,12 @@ export default function Hero() {
 	const containerRef = useRef(null);
 	const heroTlRef = useRef(null);
 	const [displayedText, setDisplayedText] = useState("");
+	const [isLoggedIn, setIsLoggedIn] = useState(false);
+
+	// Read the hint cookie after mount to avoid SSR/CSR hydration mismatch.
+	useEffect(() => {
+		setIsLoggedIn(getLoggedInHintCookie() === true);
+	}, []);
 
 	// Badge typewriter
 	useEffect(() => {
@@ -208,7 +214,13 @@ export default function Hero() {
 				<div className="flex flex-nowrap items-center xl:px-22.75 px-4 bg-[#0F0F0F] w-full overflow-hidden">
 					{/* Primary CTA */}
 					<div className="hero-cta w-full md:w-fit md:flex-shrink-0">
-						<Link href={"https://app.useautumn.com/sign-in"}>
+						<Link
+							href={
+								isLoggedIn
+									? "https://app.useautumn.com"
+									: "https://app.useautumn.com/sign-in"
+							}
+						>
 							<motion.div
 								initial="initial"
 								whileHover="hover"
@@ -219,7 +231,7 @@ export default function Hero() {
 								<div className="relative overflow-hidden flex items-center gap-1.5 md:gap-2.5 cursor-pointer justify-between py-2 px-3 md:px-4 md:py-3.5 md:w-50 font-sans bg-[#9564ff] hover:bg-[#7D46F4] transition-colors duration-300">
 									<CTALines />
 									<span className="relative z-10 tracking-[-2%] uppercase md:normal-case text-white font-medium text-[12px] md:text-base whitespace-nowrap">
-										{getLoggedInHintCookie() ? "Dashboard" : "Start for free"}
+										{isLoggedIn ? "Dashboard" : "Start for free"}
 									</span>
 									<span className="relative z-10 scale-95 md:scale-100">
 										<IconCTAStart />

server/src/utils/auth.ts

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ import { sendOnboardingEmail } from "@/internal/emails/sendOnboardingEmail.js";
 import sendOTPEmail from "@/internal/emails/sendOTPEmail.js";
 import { afterOrgCreated } from "./authUtils/afterOrgCreated.js";
 import { afterSessionCreated } from "./authUtils/afterSessionCreated.js";
+import { afterSessionDeleted } from "./authUtils/afterSessionDeleted.js";
 import { beforeSessionCreated } from "./authUtils/beforeSessionCreated.js";
 import { ADMIN_USER_IDs } from "./constants.js";
 
@@ -53,6 +54,11 @@ export const auth = betterAuth({
 					return afterSessionCreated(session, context);
 				},
 			},
+			delete: {
+				after: (session, context) => {
+					return afterSessionDeleted(session, context);
+				},
+			},
 		},
 	},
 	user: {

server/src/utils/authUtils/afterSessionDeleted.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+import type { GenericEndpointContext } from "@better-auth/core";
+import type { BetterAuthOptions, Session } from "better-auth";
+
+export const afterSessionDeleted = async (
+	_session: Session,
+	context: GenericEndpointContext<BetterAuthOptions> | null,
+) => {
+	try {
+		if (!context) return;
+
+		// Dev parity: the cookie is only set server-side in production, so
+		// we don't need to clear it here in other environments.
+		if (process.env.NODE_ENV !== "production") return;
+
+		// Clear the landing-page hint cookie so signed-out users stop seeing
+		// the "Dashboard" CTA on useautumn.com. Attributes must match the
+		// original setCookie call so the browser overwrites the cookie.
+		context.setCookie("logged_in_hint", "", {
+			domain: ".useautumn.com",
+			path: "/",
+			maxAge: 0,
+			secure: true,
+			sameSite: "none",
+			httpOnly: false,
+		});
+	} catch (_) {
+		console.error("Error running afterSessionDeleted", { error: _ });
+	}
+};

vite/src/App.tsx

@@ -59,11 +59,9 @@ export default function App() {
 					document.cookie =
 						"logged_in_hint=1; path=/; max-age=604800; SameSite=Lax";
 				} else {
-					document.cookie =
-						"logged_in_hint=; path=/; max-age=0; SameSite=Lax";
+					document.cookie = "logged_in_hint=; path=/; max-age=0; SameSite=Lax";
 				}
 			}
-			}
 		}
 	}, [data]);
 	return (