The completely fresh computer
Day Zero.
New laptop → first live website. One browser, five accounts, four installs. Every app you ever build starts from this exact setup. And you never do it again.
curl -fsSL https://labs.routiq.ai/get-started.sh | bash
Safe to run twice. It checks before it installs. Mac only; it tells Windows people where to go. Or read every line first: get-started.sh
Phase I. In the browser
all freeAccounts first.
In this exact order, so every later step can log straight in. The Vercel one is the trick worth knowing.
- 01
Chromegoogle.com/chrome ↗
The browser everything gets built and tested in.
Open Safari once. Download Chrome. Close Safari forever.
- 02
GitHubgithub.com ↗
The passport. Everything else signs in with it.
It's also where your code lives. Every app you ever build, in one place.
- 03
Claudeclaude.ai ↗
The builder's brain. Take the Pro plan.
This is the one subscription on the list. It writes every line of code you're about to not write.
- 04
Namecheapnamecheap.com ↗
The domain shop. ~$20 a year.
The only thing on this whole page with a renewal date.
- 05
Vercelvercel.com ↗
Sign up WITH the GitHub button.
That one choice is the whole trick. It's what makes “push the code = site goes live” work automatically, forever.
- 06
Google Analyticsanalytics.google.com ↗
Free. One account, one measurement ID.
So the site counts its visitors from day one. The skill wires the ID into every site you build.
Phase II. In the Terminal
the script does theseInstalls.
The one command on the first card does all four of these. The list is here so you know what just landed on your machine. Never run a script you can't read the receipt for.
- 07
Homebrewbrew.sh ↗
The Mac's app store for builder tools.
One paste in Terminal. Everything below installs through it in one line.
- 08
Git + Node
The two engines. One line: brew install git node
Git remembers every version of your work. Node runs the tools. Boring, essential.
- 09
Cursorcursor.com ↗
The editor. The window you see the files in.
Free tier is fine when Claude Code does the building. Say yes when it offers its command line tools.
- 10
Claude Code
The builder. Lives in your terminal.
npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code. Then type claude and log in.
Phase IV. The proof
the payoffA stranger can load your URL.
The last step is the whole setup paying off, and it is one sentence long.
Last step
Open Terminal, type claude and say: build my first site.
The day-zero skill (installed by the script) walks Claude through it with you: brand kit, a site whose design you love, the build, the push, the live URL. When a stranger anywhere on earth can load that URL, the machine is ready and you have built your first thing.
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/day-zero && curl -fsSL https://labs.routiq.ai/skills/day-zero/SKILL.md -o ~/.claude/skills/day-zero/SKILL.md
Read it first if you like: SKILL.md . It's a set of instructions Claude follows, in plain English.
Appendix. Domain day
The day you buy the domain, do these.
Ten minutes at Namecheap, once. Future you says thanks.
- 01
Split your subdomains
www.yoursite.com for the marketing site. app.yoursite.com for the actual app. Even if the app doesn't exist yet.
- 02
Two more, for email
notify.yoursite.com for no-reply and password resets. mail.yoursite.com for marketing emails. Keep them separate so one can't hurt the other.
- 03
sitemap.xml
yoursite.com/sitemap.xml is how Google finds every page you publish. The day-zero skill adds it to your first site automatically.
- 04
Pick one front door
yoursite.com or www.yoursite.com. Pick one, redirect the other. Otherwise Google sees two copies of your site. Drop a robots.txt next to that sitemap while you're there.
That is Day Zero. You never do it again.
Every app you build from here starts from this machine. The next thing to build is rung one: a page that just sits there, in an afternoon.