Next Steps

What’s Next? Using Graftcode in the Real World

This quick start guide showed you how to use Graftcode without any accounts, commitments, or setup friction. You can already build and consume grafts exactly like in this tutorial - completely account-free.

That’s intentional.

We want you to experience how Graftcode works before you decide to go any further.

You can use Graftcode without an account

As you’ve seen in this guide:

You can run Graftcode Gateway (gg) locally
You can expose your .NET services as grafts
You can install and consume grafts via npm and NuGet
You don’t need to register, sign in, or provide any credentials

This is perfect for:

learning Graftcode,
local development,
experiments and prototypes,
trying it out with LLM-driven development.

If this is all you need — you’re good to go.

Why create a (free) Graftcode account?

Once you start building real services, a free Graftcode account unlocks important capabilities:

Stable registry address
Your grafts get a permanent registry URL, so clients can automatically refresh and update.
Visibility of your services
See all your gateways and exposed services in one place.
Access control
Decide who can download your grafts using authentication and permissions in package managers.
Project-level management
Group gateways and services under a single project using a Project Key.

None of this is required to start — but it becomes essential for real-world usage.

Create your free Graftcode account

To get started:

👉 Create a free account at:
https://portal.graftcode.com

After signing up, create a project and copy its Project Key.

Run your service with a Project Key

When starting your gateway, either via Docker or directly from command line, pass the Project Key:

gg --projectKey YOUR_PROJECT_KEY

What this gives you:

your service appears in the Gateways view in the portal - https://gateways.graftcode.com/
your registry and package sources stay stable,
your grafts can be safely shared with teams or CI/CD pipelines.

This is the recommended setup for any long-lived service.

Join the community

We’re building Graftcode in the open and shipping new features every few days.

👉 Join our Discord by clicking this link https://discord.gg/2tWb3BAE36 and tell us what you think:

what worked well,
what felt confusing,
what you’d like to see next.

Your feedback directly shapes the product.

Stay tuned — a lot more is coming 🚀