Welcome to Netdexpert. This guide takes you from “I just landed on the homepage” to “I have a working board with an item on it” in five minutes.
1. Sign up
Go to app.netdexperts.com/signup. You’ll need an email address. No credit card. Pick a plan — Solo or Team — or downgrade to the free tier later if you change your mind.
The signup endpoint is rate-limited (5 attempts per minute per IP) so if you mistype your email a few times, give it a beat before retrying.
2. Verify your email
You’ll get a verification email within 30 seconds. The link logs you in and lands you on the onboarding page. The verification token expires after 24 hours; if it does, you can request a fresh link from the login page.
The unverified state is enforced server-side: you can browse the app, but mutations are blocked until verification completes.
3. Create your first board
The onboarding flow seeds a starter board for you (it’s called Welcome) with a few example items. From there:
- Click New board in the sidebar to spin up your own.
- Pick a board type — there’s no rigid template; just an icon, a name, and a colour.
- Default columns: Title, Status, Owner. Add more from the column picker (eighteen types ship — date, label, formula, agent, secret, model, …).
4. Add an item
Hit + at the bottom of any group. Type the item name. Tab through to set the status, assign an owner, add a due date.
Every action is mirrored over WebSocket — if you have the same board open in another tab, you’ll see edits propagate in real time.
5. Invite a teammate (Team plan)
On the Team plan, click Invite in the board header. Enter their email, choose a role. They get an email with a one-click join link. They land in the same tenant, the same boards, with the role you set.
The invite endpoint is at POST /auth/invite; the accept flow lives at
POST /auth/accept-invite. If you’re scripting onboarding, the compact API
docs at api.netdexperts.com/api/help
have the payload shapes.
Next steps
- Self-host — run Netdexpert on your own hardware
- MCP integration — wire your LLM client to your boards
- API help:
curl https://api.netdexperts.com/api/help