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Your First 15 Minutes

Here's what happens between clicking "sign up" and having a working environment.

1. Sign up for the trial

Sign up starts you on the Basic tier as a 14-day free trial — no card required. You just need an email and a password (orto anget SSOgoing. provider, if one is offered onOn the sign-up page)form toyou getalso going.pick a Git provider — Forgejo (built-in, zero setup, recommended) or GitHub (beta) — you can switch it later in Settings. See the Git Providers page in Guides & Reference for what "GitHub (beta)" covers today.

2. Auto-provisioning

As soon as your account is created, CompactHive automatically provisions your tenant in the background: a dedicated namespace, your included services, ayour Git integration,provider, and a starting registry. You don't file a ticket or wait for a human — provisioning kicks off immediately after signup.

While this is happening, the portal and the in-browser coding page will show a "setting up" state and poll until everything is ready. This usually takes a short while; you don't need to refresh manually.

3. What appears in the portal

Once provisioning finishes, your portal dashboard becomes your home base. From there you can:

  • ConnectPush ato Git repository (GitHub, GitLab, or theyour built-in GiteaForgejo instance)repo, or connect GitHub (beta), so pushes trigger builds.
  • Open Hive Code, the in-portal coding agent, to start building directly in the browser.browser — or connect your own AI coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, …) to the platform over MCP.
  • See your included services (monitoring, database, CI, registry, and more depending on tier).
  • Track deploys through a live timeline: Pushed → Built → Deployed → Live.

4. The onboarding checklist

A short checklist is pinned to the top of your portal sidebar to guide the first steps:

  1. StartConnect your AI agent, or start building your app (viawith Hive Code or your own repo).Code.
  2. Get your first successful build.
  3. Confirm your app is reachable (live).
  4. Invite a teammate or add a custom domain.

You can dismiss the checklist at any point — it's a guide, not a gate. The next page covers exactly which services come with your tenant.