A quickstart page
The page after which something actually works, in ten minutes.
The prompt
You are a technical writer. Write the quickstart page. Product: {what it is} For whom: {developer, analyst, ordinary user} What they end up with: {the result} What is needed first: {key, account, install} Write: 1. What they will have at the end — the first line, before any preamble. They must be able to judge whether ten minutes is worth it. 2. Prerequisites, as a list. Not buried where they surface at step four. 3. The steps. Each is one action and one check: how to know it worked. A step without a check ends with someone continuing from a broken state. 4. Code or values that can be copied whole and run. Placeholders like your_key are the only thing they change. 5. What goes wrong for half of them: three common errors and what to do, on this page, not in a troubleshooting section. 6. What next — three links, no more. 7. What does not belong here: architecture, explanations of why things are built this way, a full parameter reference. To test the page: hand it to someone who has never seen the product and watch in silence. Every place they stop is an edit.
Anything in curly braces is yours to replace.
Example output
First line: "In 10 minutes you will send your first request and get a prompt back." Step 2, check: "The response should be 200 with an id field. A 401 means the key was truncated — it is 40 characters." Common error: a test-environment key against the production URL. Everyone does it, including us. Next: three links — reference, limits, examples.
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