# Your first hour

From signing up to a render on a whole graphics card, in five steps. Most of the hour is downloads, and you can work while they run.

## Create a workspace

Sign up at hinode.run and name your workspace. The first workspace starts once you add credit, from $10.00, and your first top-up gets $5.00 extra. When the credit runs out, add more from $10.00; every minute is paid from it. The workspace costs $0.24 an hour while it runs.

It starts in a couple of minutes, in whichever region answers your computer faster — the United States or Europe — and stays there.

## Reach it from your computer

Install the Hinode application on your Mac, Windows PC or Linux computer and sign in.

Signing in to the application also sets up SSH, so `ssh` followed by your workspace's name works from a terminal straight away.

## Install what you need

On the workspace screen, pick applications from the catalog — ComfyUI, JupyterLab, Ollama and the rest — and press Install. Each card says how much it downloads before you commit. What an application depends on comes with it: ComfyUI brings PyTorch.

Anything outside the catalog installs the usual way, with `apt`, `pip` or `conda`, in a terminal on the workspace.

## Save a snapshot

When the workspace has what you want, save it. The snapshot is what every machine you attach starts from, so anything installed after the last save is on the workspace and not on the next machine. Add a line saying what changed, and the list of versions reads as a history.

## Attach a machine and work

Attach a machine, and pick how much graphics memory and system memory it has: machines run from $1.40 to $7.41 an hour. It starts from your newest snapshot, with your applications already on it. Reach it over SSH, or open ComfyUI on it in your own browser.

Put models and datasets in the shared folder, where every machine can read them. When you walk away, the machine pauses itself after 15 minutes with nothing running, and a paused machine costs only what is on its disk.