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This walkthrough takes you from signing up to a working app. It covers setting up your workspace, describing what you want, choosing a design, and sharing or publishing your app.
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Sign up and set up your workspace

Go to biscuit.so and click Sign up. You can sign up with your Google account, or click Sign in with email and use the link Biscuit sends to your inbox. The first time you sign in, Biscuit asks a few questions to set up your workspace:
  • Your preferences: your timezone and theme.
  • About you: your name and your role, for example founder or creator.
  • Work or personal: choose For work if you’re setting Biscuit up for a team.
  • Your business: your company name, which becomes your workspace name.
  • Company context: your website or a short description of your business. Biscuit uses this to make your apps more relevant from the first one onward.
  • Your team: invite teammates now, or skip and do it later.
For more detail, see Workspaces.
Adding your website is the quickest way to give Biscuit context. It picks up your business details, images, and logo from it.
Biscuit's workspace selection screen to choose work and personal
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Describe your idea

Click I have an idea and describe the app you want to build. Be as specific as you like: who it’s for, what it should do, and what data it works with. If you have screenshots, PDFs, or documents that show what you want, attach them. Biscuit uses them as reference. Click Start with this when you’re ready.
A prompt box to describe your idea in Biscuit
Try this prompt
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Pick the features

Based on your idea, Biscuit suggests a list of features. Check the ones you want, uncheck the ones you don’t, and add your own if something’s missing. Click Next when you’re happy with the list.
Feature suggestions screen with checkboxes for each feature
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Pick a design

Biscuit shows three design options for your app. Ask for more variations if none of them fit, then select the one you like and click Pick design.
Brand studio showing 3 choices to choose a design from
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Watch Biscuit build your app

Biscuit starts building your app: the screens, the database, and the workflows. Click the preview icon on the app to watch it come together.
Build progress as Biscuit sets up the app
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Publish your app

Your app is private while you build it. To make it available, publish it and choose who can open it.
  • Open the app, click Share → Publish from top-right corner.
  • Choose who can access it:
    • Only people invited: only the people and spaces you’ve added. See Sharing apps.
    • Everyone at company: everyone in your workspace.
    • Anyone on the web with the link: anyone, including people outside your company.
  • Confirm to publish. When you make changes later, people using your app keep seeing the published version until you click Publish again. See Publishing your app.
Publish flow with default .bsct.so URL

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FAQ

Don’t start over. Use chat to correct it, for example “the homepage should show a list, not a grid” or “remove the search bar”. Each correction is saved in your app’s history.
Ask for it in chat. If the feature exists in Biscuit, such as emails, workflows, custom domains, or file uploads, Biscuit sets it up. If it doesn’t, Biscuit tells you.
DNS usually propagates within minutes, but can take up to 48 hours. Check that the records at your domain provider match what Biscuit shows on the publish screen. If they do, give it time.
Changes only reach other people after you publish them. Click Publish to send out the new version.

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Up next

Sharing apps

Give teammates & teams access to your app.

Working with Data

Every Biscuit app has a built-in database.

Night shift

Biscuit works on your app while you sleep.