Create your account
A Briks account is an email address and a password, or your Google account. This page walks through signing up, confirming your email, signing in and joining someone else's workspace from an invitation, and explains where your first 50 credits come from.
Sign up
Go to app.briks.dev/signup, or use any of the sign-up buttons on briks.dev. The form asks for three things and needs no card.
Make the account
Enter your name
Where: Create your account
Your name is optional. It is how teammates see you, and it names your first workspace. Leave it blank and Briks uses the part of your email before the @ sign.
Enter your email
Where: Create your account
Use an address you can open now, because you cannot sign in until you confirm it. If you were invited to a workspace, use the address the invitation was sent to.
Choose a password
Where: Create your account
Password needs at least 8 characters, and the line under the field counts down how many are left. The eye button at the end of the field shows what you typed; press it again to hide it.
Press Create account
Where: Create your account
The form changes to Check your inbox, with the address the link went to. Nothing else happens until you open that email.
By continuing you agree to the Terms and the Privacy Policy. You need to be 18 or over to use Briks.
Continue with Google, at the top of the sign-up and sign-in forms, does the same in one step: choose your Google account and you are in, with no password to make and no email to confirm, because Google has confirmed the address. If you already have a Briks account with that email, Google signs you in to it.
Confirm your email
Briks sends one email with the subject 'Confirm your email for Briks'. It holds a single link, Confirm my email, which works for 24 hours.
Open the email
Where: Your inbox
If it is not in your inbox, look in spam and any other folders your email sorts things into.
Click Confirm my email
Where: Your inbox
The link confirms the address, signs you in on that browser and takes you on: to New project if you started from a description on briks.dev, back to the invitation if you came from one, and to Home otherwise.
Arrive in your workspace
Where: Home
The first time you arrive, Briks makes a workspace for you, with you as its Owner and 50 free credits in it.
Bring your brief from briks.dev
If you typed a description into the box on briks.dev before signing up, it comes with you. The sign-up page shows it under Your brief, with the line 'Your first project starts from these words. You can change them before anything is built.' On a phone, the brief sits in a strip above the form.
After you confirm your email, the link opens New project with the description already waiting in the Describe it step, along with anything else you chose on briks.dev: the kind of project, a site you like, or picking a look first. Up to 2,000 characters of the description carry over.
Typed on briks.dev before signing up: 'A mobile dog grooming van in Bath. Prices for small, medium and large dogs, the areas we cover, and a booking request form. Friendly and bright, lots of photos of happy dogs.'
The sign-up page showed the words under Your brief. After confirming the email, New project opened at its first step asking for a name, with the description already in place on the next step.
Sign in
Open the sign-in page
Where: app.briks.dev/login
Or follow Sign in under the sign-up form, next to 'Already have an account?'.
Enter your email and password
Where: Sign in
The same eye button shows or hides the password as you type.
Press Sign in
Where: Sign in
You go straight to where you were heading, or to Home.
You stay signed in on that browser. A session that goes unused for 30 days ends, and you sign in again. To see where you are signed in, or to sign out everywhere else, open Profile from your name at the foot of the navigation and look under Signed-in devices.
If you forget your password
On the sign-in page, choose Forgot password? and enter the email you sign in with. If that address has a Briks account, we email it a link to choose a new password. The link works for an hour and only once; ask for a new one if it has expired. Setting a new password signs your account out on every device, so you then sign in again with it. If you are still signed in somewhere and just want a different password, change it from Profile: under Password, enter your Current password, then the New password and Confirm new password, and press Change password. Tick 'Sign out of other devices. This one stays signed in.' if you think someone else knows the old one.
If you are signed out everywhere and cannot remember it, write to hello@briks.dev from the address you signed up with and ask for help getting back in.
Join a workspace from an invitation
When someone adds you to their workspace, you get an email saying who invited you, to which workspace and with which role. The link works for 7 days and only for the address it was sent to, so a forwarded link does nothing for anyone else.
Open the link
Where: Join a workspace
The page reads Join followed by the workspace's name, with a line such as 'Ana invited you@yourbusiness.com as an Editor.'
Create an account or sign in
Where: Join a workspace
If you are not signed in, choose Create an account to join or I have an account. Your email is filled in. A new account confirms its email first, and the confirmation link brings you back to this page signed in.
Join or decline
Where: Join a workspace
Press the Join button with the workspace's name, or Decline. Joining opens that workspace's Home, and you can start working at once. If the workspace has no room left for another person on its plan, joining is refused until its Owner makes room or moves to a bigger plan.
If the page says the invitation has expired, has already been used or was withdrawn, ask the person who invited you for a new one. From Members they can Send again, or Renew and send again once it has expired. Your role decides what you can do in their workspace: an Editor creates, changes and publishes projects, and a Viewer sees projects, previews and analytics but changes nothing. See members and roles.
Your first workspace and the free credits
A workspace holds projects, members, a plan and credits. The first time you arrive, Briks makes one for you, named after the name on your account, with you as its Owner. You can rename it in Settings.
The Free plan gives 50 credits once, with the first workspace you own. There is no daily or monthly top-up on Free, and these 50 do not expire. They come once per person: deleting that workspace and making another does not bring them back, and any further workspace you create starts with none until it has a paid plan.
Maya signs up from the box on briks.dev. Her account gets a workspace called Maya Okafor, with 50 credits. She moves it to Pro, which has room for 3 people, and invites her assistant Tom as an Editor. Tom creates his account from the invitation link, confirms his email and joins Maya's workspace.
Tom builds and changes Maya's site using Maya's credits. He has no workspace of his own, and no free credits of his own, until he creates one.
A new site holds 50 credits while it builds, so the free credits are enough to start one first build. What the build does not use comes back to the balance, and a Free workspace's first site is built in full even when it takes more than you have. Credits and plans explains how the rest works.
Can I sign up with a Google or social account?
Google, yes: press Continue with Google on the sign-up or sign-in form. No other account, such as GitHub or Apple, can be used to sign in. An account made with Google keeps your Google address as its email, so it cannot be changed on Profile.
Do I need a card to start?
No. The Free plan needs no card. You pay only if you choose a paid plan in Billing.
Can I change my email later?
Yes, if you sign in with a password. On Profile, under Email, choose Change email. Briks sends a link to the new address, and the change happens only when you open it. Until then you keep signing in with the old one. An account that signs in with Google uses the Google account's address, which cannot be changed here.
I never got the invitation email.
Ask the person who invited you to check the address in Members and press Send again. They can also use Copy invitation link and send it to you another way; it still only works for the invited address.