How do I start with daily.dev for Startups?

Go to daily.dev/squads/for-startups, sign in, pick a Squad you admin or create a new company page, choose Starter or Team and pay. Then connect the daily.dev MCP server to your agent and paste the setup prompt from the checklist.

Who can buy a plan for a Squad?

Only an admin of that Squad. If you do not have a Squad yet, you create your company page during checkout and become its admin.

How long does it take for the plan to turn on?

Up to about a minute after payment. A setup checklist then appears on your Squad.

Which agents work with daily.dev for Startups?

Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, VS Code and any client that supports MCP over streamable HTTP. The server address is https://api.daily.dev/mcp.

Can I set everything up without an agent?

Yes. Every step of the setup can be done by hand in the daily.dev app: the page details, the weekly intel topics, your first post and your first boost.

Getting started with daily.dev for Startups

Setting up daily.dev for Startups takes a few minutes: you choose a plan for your Squad, connect your coding agent, and paste one prompt. Your agent does the rest and asks before it saves anything.

1. Choose a plan

Go to daily.dev/squads/for-startups and sign up or log in.
Pick a Squad you are an admin of, or create a new company page. Only a Squad admin can buy a plan for it.
Choose Starter or Team. Plans and boost credits compares them.
Pay.

The plan turns on within about a minute, and a setup checklist appears on your Squad.

2. Connect daily.dev to your agent

Add the daily.dev MCP server. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install.

https://api.daily.dev/mcp

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http daily-dev https://api.daily.dev/mcp

Then run /mcp in Claude Code to sign in with daily.dev.

Codex

codex mcp add daily-dev --url https://api.daily.dev/mcp

Cursor

Use the one-click install on the MCP server page, or add the server to ~/.cursor/mcp.json.

Any other MCP client

Add a remote (streamable HTTP) server with the URL above, and sign in with daily.dev or send a personal access token. The MCP server page has the details for each client.

3. Paste the setup prompt

The checklist gives you a prompt to paste into your agent. With it, your agent:

picks the topics for your weekly intel,
fills in your company page,
improves your own daily.dev profile, so developers see who is behind the page,
prepares your first post,
starts a 7-day boost for it, paid from the Squad's wallet,
sets up a daily routine that reports how your page and posts are doing.

It asks before it saves or publishes anything.

Or set it up by hand

Everything in the prompt can also be done in the daily.dev app:

Page details: name, logo, description, link and product, under Manage on the Squad page. See Creating your Squad.
Weekly intel: under Manage > Weekly intel. See Weekly intel.
Your first post: post to the Squad as you would to any other.
Your first boost: open the post and click Boost, then choose the Squad's wallet under Pay with. See Boost.

4. Bring your team (Team plan)

On the Team plan, a Squad admin can give a paid seat to up to five admins or moderators, under Manage > Subscription > Seats. Each seat holder connects their own agent and posts as themselves. See seats.

What happens next

Every Monday a new weekly intel is ready. If your Squad has none yet, the first one is ready within about an hour of saving your topics.
Every day, if you set up the routine, your agent reports on the page, your posts and your boosts, and reminds you when a post is due.
Every month your plan adds boost credits to the Squad's wallet.