# An address. Then the first post.

> Sign up with your email, choose an address and start writing. 14 days free, with no card. Set it up by hand or with your agent.

Sign up on pixelglass.co with your email and a code, choose an address, and your site exists. **The first 14 days are free, with no card.** Then name it, choose a theme and write, or let your agent set it up with you.

## By hand, in the admin

1. Go to pixelglass.co/signup, type your email and press **Continue**.
2. Type the six-digit code PixelGlass emails you.
3. Type your name, choose your address under pixelglass.me and press **Continue**. The site is made at once, on its free trial.
4. In the admin, connect your agent, or press **Set up without an agent**.
5. Name the publication, choose what it publishes in and its theme, say whether readers will pay, and press **Start publishing**.

## With your agent

> Set up my new publication with me. It is a blog about city cycling.

> Call it Two Wheels, with the line “Notes from the bike lane”, and publish in English and Dutch.

> Show me two or three directions for the look, then build the one I choose.

The tools it calls: `start_setup`, `update_publication`, `create_theme`, `activate_theme`.

The trial with no card starts here, by hand. To make the site from Claude or ChatGPT instead, connect PixelGlass at pixelglass.co/mcp: your agent reserves the address, and you add a card at Stripe.

## Examples

- **A cycling blog by the evening.** A commuter signs up over lunch, connects Claude on the welcome screen, and **has a named, styled site by the evening**.
- **A bakery, set up by hand.** A baker types the name, adds the logo, picks a theme and presses Start publishing. Three starter posts and an About page wait for her to rewrite them.
- **Private until it is ready.** During the trial the site is for its owner alone, so a new writer drafts a month of posts before anyone reads one.

## Questions

### How do I start a blog on PixelGlass?

Sign up at pixelglass.co with your email, type the code PixelGlass sends you, and choose an address under pixelglass.me. The site is made at once, and its admin walks you through the name, the languages, the theme and payments.

### Do I need a card to try PixelGlass?

No. A new PixelGlass site starts on a 14-day trial with no card. An account has one such trial at a time; a second site starts with a card at Stripe, with the same 14 free days.

### What is locked during the trial?

During the PixelGlass trial the site is private, for its owner alone, and a post goes to the site without an email. Choose a plan in the admin's Billing, and the site can go public and send newsletters.

### What happens when the trial ends?

The PixelGlass admin waits at Billing, and the site stays private, until the owner chooses a plan.

### Can my agent set up the site for me?

Yes. On the welcome screen, connect Claude, ChatGPT or a coding agent, and say “set up my publication”. It calls start_setup, asks a few questions and builds a first draft of the site with you.

## See also

- [Start a blog from Claude](https://pixelglass.co/guides/start-a-blog-from-claude): Connect PixelGlass to Claude or ChatGPT and ask for a blog. Your agent reserves the address; you add a card at Stripe. 14 days free.
- [Set up your publication](https://pixelglass.co/guides/set-up-your-publication): Name your publication, write its line, add a logo, choose its languages and its theme. Do it in the welcome walk, in Settings, or with your agent.
- [Choose a plan](https://pixelglass.co/guides/choose-a-plan): Seven plans, every feature on each. They differ in newsletter emails a month and storage, and the emails you do not send roll over for 12 months.
- [Themes](https://pixelglass.co/features/themes): Start from 9 themes made for magazines, newsletters, coaches and portfolios. Change the look in Settings, or ask your agent to redesign it.
- [MCP server](https://pixelglass.co/features/mcp-server): Every PixelGlass site is an MCP server with 68 tools. Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and more write posts, design themes and run your publication.
- [Every guide](https://pixelglass.co/guides)
- [Pricing](https://pixelglass.co/pricing): every feature on every plan, 14 days free
- [Create your site](https://pixelglass.co/signup)