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The Setup Wizard runs automatically the first time you open your site after deployment. It walks you through the minimum configuration needed to go live, then seeds your database with categories, prompt templates, base pages, and navigation defaults. The wizard has 10 steps: three configuration forms, six informational onboarding screens, and a launch step.

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Configuration steps

1

Site Identity

Set your site’s name, tagline, and contact email.
Logo, favicon, footer text, social links, and phone number are not part of the wizard. Configure them after setup in Settings → General.
2

AI Generation

Configure the AI provider that generates domain descriptions, taglines, SEO metadata, use cases, and brand colors.Toggle Enable AI generation on, then:
  1. Select a provider — OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google
  2. Paste your API key for that provider
  3. Click Load Models to fetch the available models from your account
  4. Select a model from the dropdown
  5. Fill in the Site Description — describe your portfolio’s focus and tone
The Site Description is the most important field here. The more specific it is, the better the AI output. Example: “A curated collection of premium .com domains for tech startups and SaaS founders. Professional, concise tone.”
You can skip AI setup and enable it later in Settings → AI. All AI settings — provider, key, model, prompts — are editable at any time.
After the wizard, you can fine-tune every AI prompt template in Settings → Prompts. The wizard does not expose this — it just sets up the connection.
3

Email Notifications

Set up email alerts so you’re notified when inquiries and offers arrive.Toggle Enable email notifications on, then fill in:
Telegram notifications, per-event toggles, and Brevo newsletter are not part of the wizard. Configure them after setup in Settings → Notifications.

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Onboarding screens

After the three configuration steps, the wizard shows six informational screens. These are a quick tour of key features — no input required. You can skip all of them at once using the Skip tour → link at the top.

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Launch

The final step shows a summary of what you configured — site name, AI status, and email notification status — and a Launch Site button. When you click Launch Site, the wizard:
  1. Seeds 21 domain categories
  2. Creates 23 AI prompt templates
  3. Creates five base CMS pages: About, Contact, FAQ, Privacy Policy, Terms of Service
  4. Populates page templates for Homepage, Domain page, Category page, and Blog
  5. Sets navigation and appearance defaults
  6. Marks setup as complete
After launch, you’re redirected to the admin dashboard. The wizard will not appear again.
Do not close the browser during the launch step. The seeding process takes a few seconds — wait for the “Site is live!” confirmation before navigating away.

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After the wizard

The wizard covers the minimum. Before you start adding domains, consider setting up:
  • Storage — connect Cloudflare R2 if you want to upload images (Settings → Storage)
  • Telegram notifications — takes 2 minutes with @BotFather (Settings → Notifications)
  • Appearance — choose your theme, colors, and font (Settings → Appearance)
  • Navigation — update the main menu links (Settings → Navigation)
The wizard shows only when setup.completed is false in the database. If you see it after already completing setup, open the admin dashboard directly at /admin. The wizard appears at /admin/install — navigating away from it does not reset progress.If setup truly is incomplete (e.g. the launch step failed), complete it again. The seed operation is non-destructive — it skips any records that already exist.
Run npm run reset-wizard from the project directory. This resets setup.completed to false and wizardStep to 0, letting you go through the wizard again. This command is only available in Docker/local environments — do not run it on a live site.