Most AI tutorials start with a setup checklist. Pick a model provider. Create an account. Wire up a vector database for memory. Stand up a server to hold conversation state. Glue it all together. Then, finally, you send a message.
Backboard skips all of that. One API call sends your first message. A thread, an assistant, memory, and routing across thousands of models are already running behind that single call. You do not assemble the stack. It is the stack.
Here is the whole thing.
Step 1: Get a key
Sign up at app.backboard.io, go to Settings then API Keys, and copy your key. New accounts get $5 in free credits for 30 days. No credit card.
