Create an account

Every shebang service — sherpage, sherserve, sherlink, sherbase — shares one account, managed by sherlock, the platform's own identity provider.

Sign up

Go to dash.shebang.pro/signup and provide:

• A handle — your public username on the platform.
• An email address.
• A password — at least 8 characters.

Submit the form and shebang emails you a 6-digit code — not a confirmation link. Enter it on the verification page that follows to finish creating your account.

Or use a provider

The sign-up page also offers continue with Google and continue with GitHub. Either one skips the password and the email code entirely — you land in the same account model with no separate step.

Neither provider asks for a handle directly, but shebang tries to derive one from what the provider sends back — your Google display name or GitHub login, lowercased, with anything outside a-z0-9 collapsed to a single underscore and the result cut to 20 characters. If that derived handle is already taken or reserved, shebang tries again with a 2- to 4-digit numeric suffix appended (braven_chiam42) before falling back further. When nothing usable comes back at all, you get a random user_xxxxxx handle instead. Either way, you can pick a different handle afterward from account settings. See handles for the rules a handle has to follow either way.

What you get immediately

Signing up creates:

• A sherlock identity, usable everywhere shebang — including any third-party app that adds "Sign in with sherlock."
• A project named and slugged default, ready to hold your first page, file, link, or database.

A new account can't use any of these services yet, though — see activation for the one step every account needs before its first real call.

You can add two-factor authentication from your account settings at any time afterward; it isn't required to get started.

Next

Projects — what a project is, and when to make a second one.