Until today, creating an Anna account required an invite code. If you did not have one, the sign-up form was a form you could not finish — so people arrived, found a wall, and left.
That wall is gone. You can create an account right now, without a code.
What happens when you sign up
Your account is created immediately and lands in a review queue. It cannot sign in or spend anything until someone approves it — usually within a day. You get an email the moment it opens, and you sign in with the password you chose at sign-up. There is no second code to wait for.
This is still a closed beta. Registration being open does not mean access is automatic: we read every signup.
If you already have an invite code, paste it into the form and you skip the queue entirely — it works exactly as it always did.
Why a review and not a code
A closed beta exists to keep the number of people small enough that every problem gets a real answer. A code does that too, but it makes the door narrow in the wrong dimension: it sorts for who you happen to know, which tells us nothing about whether we can support you well.
A review keeps the number small on purpose instead of by accident. We can let more people through on a quiet week and fewer on a heavy one, without minting codes, and without anyone left holding one that went stale while they waited to use it.
Also in this release
- Sign in with Google creates an account through the same review queue, so it is no longer a
separate, unreviewed way in.
- Approved accounts start with a credit balance, so the first thing you do with Anna is not "buy
credits". Previously an invited account could arrive at zero and need a manual top-up before it could run anything.
- If you registered and are still waiting, signing in now tells you that clearly instead of answering
"invalid email or password" — which read as you typed it wrong and sent people in circles.