Getting started
From an empty account to a running app takes one conversation. This page walks the exact path, including the parts where the agents wait for you.
Last updated 2026-09-05
1. Create an account
Sign up with an email address or with Google. The username derived from your email becomes the middle part of every app URL you create: <app>.<your-username>.my-app.engineer. It cannot be changed later, so pick the email you want to see there.
Provisioning your space takes a minute or two the first time. You can watch it happen on the dashboard; there is nothing to configure.
2. Describe the app
Open the builder and type what you want in plain language. Specific beats clever: "a booking page for my barbershop with three chairs, 30-minute slots, and email confirmation" produces a better first plan than "a booking app".
The manager agent replies with a blueprint: the capabilities it intends to build, listed one by one. You can remove, rename or add capabilities before anything is written. Nothing is built until you approve.
If you started from the prompt box on the homepage before signing in, the text is carried into the builder for you after sign-up.
3. Approve the plan
On approval, builder agents write the code, add a database when the app needs one, and deploy the result into your namespace. Progress is shown as a journal, step by step, with the actual commands and outcomes — not a spinner. A first build typically takes several minutes depending on the app's size.
When it finishes, the app is live and you get its URL. Ask for changes in the same chat; each change is a new build on the same app.
4. Open it — and look underneath
The app runs on Kubernetes in your own space. From the dashboard's Cluster tab you can:
- download a kubeconfig (
my-app.kubeconfig) and usekubectlagainst your own control plane — see Your cluster; - connect cluster tools such as the Kubernetes Dashboard or Grafana — see Cluster tools;
- add your own hardware or rent a machine — see Nodes;
- point a custom domain at the app; TLS is issued automatically.
$ kubectl --kubeconfig ~/Downloads/my-app.kubeconfig get pods
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
barbershop-7d9c4b8f6-x2kq9 1/1 Running 0 3m
barbershop-db-0 1/1 Running 0 3mWhat the free plan gives you
One app, 0.5 vCPU, 1 GB of memory and 10 GB of storage, with 10 messages a month on the built-in AI. The app sleeps when idle and wakes on the first request. That is enough to build something real and decide whether you want to keep going. Plans and billing has the full table.