Two ways in
Email and password
Go to Sign up, provide your email address and choose a password. Your email is stored lowercased and trimmed, soYou@Example.com and you@example.com are the same account and you cannot accidentally create two.
GitHub
If GitHub sign-in is enabled on the deployment, the OAuth button appears on both the sign-in and sign-up screens.An account created through GitHub has no password. Signing in with email and password against that account will not work, and will fail identically to a wrong password rather than telling you the account exists — that is deliberate, so the login form cannot be used to discover which email addresses are registered.To add a password later, use Reset credentials.
If you arrived from a referral link
A referral link looks like/ref/<code>. Visiting one stores the code in a cookie for 30 days, then forwards you to the site.
That window is deliberate. Attribution that only survived a single navigation would credit almost nobody — the usual pattern is that someone reads the landing page, wanders off, and signs up several days later.
When you complete sign-up, the stored code is resolved to the referring account and the link is recorded permanently. It cannot be changed afterwards.
Referral codes are eight characters from an alphabet with 0, o, 1, l and i removed, because those get misread when typed off a screen.
Choosing a password
There is no maximum length and no character-class requirement designed to be annoying. Length is what matters.What you get immediately
- An account with a $0.00 balance.
- A referral code of your own, usable straight away from the Referral Hub.
- A welcome notification in the bell menu.
- Access to the dashboard, with the deposit and plan flows open.