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title: "Launch your first app"
section: "Getting Started"
canonical_url: "https://support.buildwithhq.com/getting-started/your-first-app.html"
reviewed_at: "2026-10-22"
authority: Official
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# Launch your first app

Create an application and understand what gets provisioned when you do.

## In brief

- **Audience:** New builders
- **Time:** 10 min
- **Requires:** Verified email

Creating an application starts a staged provisioning operation. Follow the app’s provisioning status until it reports readiness. If setup is pending or fails, review the safe error and correlation reference before retrying; do not create duplicate apps to work around a failed stage.

## What gets created

- **Your application record** and the default web address configured for it. Open the app after provisioning and routing are ready.
- **Three dedicated databases** — live data, audit history, and AI — reserved for this application alone.
- **Storage and AI allowances** for the app, metered against your plan.
- **You as the owner**, with full administrative rights over the new app.

## Two ways to start

**Start from a template** — pick a template pack and get a complete, working application (pages, menus, user types) that you then customize. This is the fastest path and the one we recommend for a first app.

**Build with AI** — describe the product you want in a guided interview, and the platform drafts the application structure for you. See [Build with AI](../builder-guide/build-with-ai.html).

Tip

You can create additional apps later from the same account — each one gets its own isolated databases and its own domain setup.

## Standard and dedicated runtime

Database routing and service compute are separate concerns. Confirm the app’s configured runtime and enabled workers before depending on background processing. Optional dedicated compute or customer-hosted Appliance operation requires its own deployment setup and agreed commercial terms; creating an app does not provision that compute automatically.

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Capability review: 2026-10-22. [View the canonical guide](https://support.buildwithhq.com/getting-started/your-first-app.html).