Your first project

Get an account

Sign-up is invitation-only during the alpha. To ask for access, write to support@rootsy.io. Once you’re invited, open the link in the invitation email to create your account. Check your spam folder if it doesn’t arrive.

Create a computer

Create a computer from the dashboard and give it a name. The name becomes its address, https://<name>.rtsy.dev. You choose a plan when you create your first computer, and the dialog can offer a trial. See Plans and Runtime Credits.

Start your AI

Open the computer’s workspace. The terminal opens on the rootsy welcome guide. Start Claude Code from there, or type claude.

Sign in with your own Claude account. The sign-in runs between your browser and claude.ai. Claude Code stores its token on the computer’s disk. Rootsy doesn’t read or log it. See Security.

Bring what you have

Have a project already? Clone it from any git host in the terminal, or upload it in the Files window. Your computer covers moving files in.

Ask for something small

Give Claude Code a concrete brief. Say who it’s for and what they need to do first. Leave the rest for later.

Build a request desk for our office.
Each request has a title, an owner and a status.
Use sample data, and show it to me in the Preview.

Claude Code can point the workspace’s Preview window at a page and refresh it with rootsy preview. See Preview and testing.

Put it online

The Preview shows the same app visitors get at your address. Send the address to someone and they can open it. Rootsy puts no login in front of it, so add one before you share anything private. Protect an app shows how.

When it’s ready for a real name, connect a domain you own with a CNAME record. See Addresses and custom domains.

Keep a way back

Before a risky change, create a backup in the Backups window. Rootsy also takes automatic backups. See Backups and Reset.

Push your code to a git remote you control as well. Backups stay with the computer, so a remote is your copy elsewhere.