# Create a project Source: https://modulify.ai/docs/projects/create-a-project Start a site from a prompt, from a template, or from a site you already have. Every project starts on the dashboard home page at `/dashboard`. The prompt box is the main route in, and templates and imports feed into the same place. ## Before you begin You need to be signed in, and the workspace you are in needs a free site slot on its plan. Generating a site spends AI credits, so the workspace needs a balance. Reading, browsing and publishing do not cost credits. ## Describe what you want The box on the home page is placeholded **Describe the site you want to build...**. Type what the site is for and who it is for. Detail helps: the same prompt that names sections, audience and tone produces a much closer first result than a single word. ```markdown A landing page for a small pottery studio in Lisbon. Sections for classes, a gallery, and a contact form. Warm, minimal, lots of white space. ``` Press the arrow button to start. Modulify creates the project, takes you into it, and your prompt appears as the first message in the project's chat. The send button stays disabled while the box is empty. There is a 500,000 character ceiling on the prompt, and hitting it shows *You have reached the maximum character limit.* under the box. ### Enhance with AI Under the box, **Enhance with AI** rewrites what you have typed into a fuller brief. Use it when you know roughly what you want but do not feel like writing it out. ### Attach files and pick a mode The **+** button on the left of the box opens a menu with **Manage connectors**, **Manage skills**, **Attach file** and **Import**. A project can carry up to 30 attachments. Images you attach are shown alongside your first message. Next to it sit the mode picker and the model picker, the same two controls you get inside the project. Mode chooses between building straight away and writing a plan first, covered in [Plan and Build modes](/docs/build/plan-and-build). The microphone button dictates into the box instead of typing. ## Start from a template Templates are finished sites you can copy and then change. Open **Templates** in the sidebar, or the **Modulify templates** tab on the home page, pick one and choose **Clone in Modulify**. [Templates](/docs/projects/templates) covers browsing and cloning in full. ## Start from a site you already have The **Import** entry in the **+** menu offers three sources: - **Import site**, for any site without an integration - **Import Shopify store**, which brings across products, variants, collections and pages - **Import Webflow site**, which brings across pages, CMS collections and items Choosing one opens its dialog. Once a source is attached, a pill appears above the prompt box showing what will be imported, and your prompt is applied on top of it. ## The Create button On `/dashboard/projects`, once the workspace has at least one project, a **Create** button sits at the top right. It holds two items: **Create project**, which takes you back to the home page prompt, and **Create folder**, which opens the folder dialog. While the workspace is still empty, the projects list shows an empty state titled **No projects** with the description *Create your first project to get started.* and a **Create project** button. ## When you hit a limit Two limits can stop a creation, and each has its own response. **Out of AI credits.** A toast titled *Out of AI credits* explains the workspace has none left, and the plan and credits dialog opens on its purchase view. **Site limit reached.** How this lands depends on your plan. On a paid plan that is not canceled or overdue, you are asked **Add an extra site?** with the price stated, $10 a month or $120 a year depending on your billing period, and an **Add site** button that adds it to your current subscription and then retries the creation. Otherwise a dialog titled **Site limit reached!** offers an upgrade. ## Next - [Templates](/docs/projects/templates) starts you from something finished. - [Site chat](/docs/build/site-chat) is where the building happens once the project exists. - [Publish a site](/docs/publish/publish-a-site) puts it in front of the public.