#Create your first site

From nothing to a live site in about ten minutes. Sign up, create a project, describe what you want, answer a question or two, and watch it build. This page walks through that first run.

#1. Sign up

Go to startupjs.ai and click Try for free. New accounts start on a 30-day free trial with starting AI credit — no card needed.

#2. Create a project

You land on your dashboard — the home for all your projects. Click New project in the sidebar. Each project is one site, and it gets an address like calm-forest-78.startupjs.ai right away (you can rename it, or connect your own domain later).

Open the project and click through to your site — the AI Builder chat opens with it, ready for your first message.

#3. Describe what you want

Write a few sentences about the site you have in mind. Plain language is exactly right — describe it the way you'd describe it to a friend:

Don't worry about completeness — you'll refine everything afterwards. If it helps, mention the mood too: "warm and cozy", "minimal and modern", "playful".

#4. Answer the AI's questions

For anything that could reasonably go two ways — "should pre-orders require a phone number?" — the AI asks before building, as a short card with a few options. The first option is always its recommendation, so if you don't have an opinion, just click it. There are at most a few questions, often none.

#5. Watch it build

The chat shows live progress while the AI works: what it's doing right now, and its running notes if you expand them. A first build typically takes a few minutes. You can press Stop at any time if you change your mind — the AI stops where it is, and your next message picks things up from there.

When it finishes, it summarizes what it built.

#6. Look around, then iterate

Open your site and click through it like a visitor would. Then go back to the chat and say what you'd like different — one thing at a time works best:

• "Make the menu page the home page."
• "The photos are too small — make them bigger, in a grid."
• "Add a page with directions and a map link."
• "Rename 'Products' to 'Pastries' everywhere."

Anything you can describe, you can change. And nothing is ever lost: every chat turn has a Restore to here button that rolls the whole site back to how it was at that point.

#What you have now

A real, live application:

• On the web at your-name.startupjs.ai — share the link with anyone.
• On phones as a mobile app, if you want it.
• With a real database behind it — pre-orders from your form actually land somewhere you can see.

#Where to next

• Sharpen how you ask: Talking to the AI Builder
• Add sign-in, emails or payments: Plugins
• Understand the dashboard you just used: Your dashboard at a glance