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feat(site): /start creates an account, not an instance

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The form posts to admin's signup and the slug preview goes: there is no
instance at this point, and previewing one promises something the
submission does not create. Creating the instance is now a step in the
portal, which the page's What happens next panel spells out.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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mrhid6
2026-07-26 13:37:30 +01:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5
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site/app/start/page.tsx
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import type { Metadata } from "next";
import { InstanceForm } from "@/components/InstanceForm";
import { AccountForm } from "@/components/AccountForm";
export const metadata: Metadata = {
title: "Vantage Cloud",
description: "An instance owns its servers, keys, workflows, monitors and secrets. Free for three servers, hosted or self-hosted.",
description: "Your account is where instances, licences and billing live. Free for three servers, hosted or self-hosted.",
};
export default function StartPage() {
@@ -12,14 +12,13 @@ export default function StartPage() {
<div className="split">
<div>
<span className="tag">Vantage Cloud</span>
<h1 style={{ fontSize: "var(--s-3)", margin: "0.8rem 0 1rem", maxWidth: "15ch" }}>Set up your instance.</h1>
<h1 style={{ fontSize: "var(--s-3)", margin: "0.8rem 0 1rem", maxWidth: "15ch" }}>Create your account.</h1>
<p className="lede" style={{ fontSize: "var(--s-0)" }}>
An instance owns its servers, keys, workflows, monitors and secrets. Nothing inside it is visible to any other instance. Confirm your email and it is created with you
as its owner.
Your account is where instances, licences and billing live. Confirm your email and you can create a free instance straight away — three servers, hosted by us.
</p>
<div className="card" style={{ marginTop: "1.9rem" }}>
<InstanceForm />
<AccountForm />
</div>
</div>
@@ -30,23 +29,21 @@ export default function StartPage() {
<span className="spec__k">FIRST</span>
<div>
<h3>Confirm your email</h3>
<p>We send a link that works once. Your instance is created when you open it, not before.</p>
<p>We send a link that works once. Your account is created when you open it, not before.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div className="spec">
<span className="spec__k">THEN</span>
<div>
<h3>Add a key</h3>
<p>
Paste the contents of <code>~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub</code>. Vantage fingerprints it and refuses duplicates.
</p>
<h3>Create your instance</h3>
<p>One click in the portal. It gets its own subdomain and a free licence, and you are its owner.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div className="spec">
<span className="spec__k">THEN</span>
<div>
<h3>Add a server</h3>
<p>Run the install command as root. It expires in an hour and works once.</p>
<h3>Add a key and a server</h3>
<p>Paste your public key, then run the install command as root. It expires in an hour and works once.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div className="spec">