# Quickstart

This is the shortest path from a new Dewstack account to a documentation page anyone can open in a browser: create a workspace, add a collection, write a page, publish it, and pick the subdomain it lives on. It takes about five minutes and needs nothing beyond the trial every new account starts on.

## What you need before you start

A Dewstack account, and nothing else. New accounts begin on a free trial with **3 workspaces** and full access, so every step below is unlocked from the moment you sign up – see [Subscription and billing](/docs/account-settings/subscription) for how long the trial runs and what changes when it ends.

If you are reading this on an account that has already been through a trial without subscribing, you are on the free tier: **one workspace**, and it has to be **Public** – the **Private** option in the New Workspace dialog is locked behind a paid plan or an active trial. Everything else in this quickstart still works.

## Create a workspace and publish your first page

1.  Sign in at `app.dewstack.com`. You land on your workspaces list.
2.  Scroll to **Templates** and click **Create from scratch** – the card described as "Get started with a blank template".
3.  In the **New Workspace** dialog, type a **Name** (this is the site's name, not its URL), leave the access radio on **Public**, and click **Next**. Dewstack creates the workspace and drops you straight into the editor.
4.  In the editor sidebar, click **Add New Collection**. A collection is one section of your sidebar – "Getting Started", "API Reference".
5.  Give the collection a **Name** and check the **Slug** Dewstack derives from it; the slug becomes the first segment of every page URL in that collection. Click **Save**.
6.  Open the collection's **⋮** menu and choose **New Page**. It appears in the tree as a draft titled "untitled".
7.  Replace the title in the **Enter Title** field at the top of the editor, then write your content in the editor below it. It behaves like a word processor – headings, lists, images, code blocks, tables.
8.  Click **Save as → Publish**. The status pill next to the button flips from **Draft** to **Published**.
9.  Go to **Hosting** in the left sidebar. Under **Dewstack URL**, replace the auto-generated name with the subdomain you want and click **Save**.
10.  Click **Preview Space** in the editor's action bar to open the live site, and share the URL.

![The workspace editor with a collection open in the sidebar, a page in the editor, and the Published pill on the right](https://res.cloudinary.com/dstack/image/upload/v1785150289/blob_ps5yqy.png)

Once the pill reads Published, the page is live on your docs URL – there is no separate deploy.

## Where your page ended up

Your page is now at `https://<your-subdomain>.dewstack.com/docs/<collection-slug>/<page-slug>`. Public URLs carry no space or workspace segment – the collection slug and the page slug are the whole path, which is why step 5 is worth a moment's thought.

Drafts are never served. A page is only on the public site once you have used **Save as → Publish**, and a child page cannot be published while its parent is still a draft.

Publishing is a permission, not just a button

**Save as → Publish** only appears if your role has the _Publish Workspace_ permission. If you own the account you have it. Team members invited as **Editor** can save drafts but not publish them – see [Manage team members](/docs/team-support/manage-team).

## What to do next

*   **Make it look like yours.** Logo, colours, fonts, landing page and footer all live in [Customize](/docs/customize/customize-your-docs-site).
*   **Decide who can see it.** Public, private-link or password-protected, plus custom domains, in [Access and content sharing](/docs/hosting/access-and-content-sharing) and [Custom domain](/docs/hosting/custom-domain).
*   **Bring content you already wrote.** Markdown, Word, PDF, a zip or a URL – see [Import content](/docs/understand-workspaces/import-content).
*   **Skip the blank page.** Dewstack can build a whole workspace from a PDF or Word document; see [Create a new workspace](/docs/understand-workspaces/create-a-new-workspace).
*   **Let an AI read your docs.** Nothing to set up on a public site – [connect Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor](/docs/api-and-agents/mcp).

## Related

[Customize your docs site Every reader-facing setting, in one page.](/docs/customize/customize-your-docs-site) [Custom domain Serve your docs from docs.your-company.com.](/docs/hosting/custom-domain) [AI-ready docs Every machine-readable surface Dewstack publishes for you.](/docs/ai-ready-docs/why-ai-ready)