The ChanTan Studio Dashboard: A Guided Tour

Every button on your ChanTan Studio dashboard in plain words: the build box, project cards, folders, search, notifications and the credit balance.

The dashboard is your home screen. You land here after you log in.

It does two jobs: it's where you describe a new app, and it's where all your existing apps are kept.

The bar at the very top

Two extra gift chips appear only when you have something waiting: "Daily Spin" when your free wheel spin is ready, and "{n} rewards to claim". Both take you to the billing page to collect them.

Your account menu (click your photo) shows your name and email, then four links: "Dashboard" · "Settings" · "Trash" · "Log out".

ℹ️ The bin is only reachable from that menu. There is no bin icon on the project cards — that's deliberate, so nothing gets deleted by a stray click.

The build box

Under the greeting "Welcome back, {name}" sits the big box headed "Describe it. We'll build it."

That box is how you create a project. There's no "New project" button and no template chooser.

Full details are in Build your first app.

Your project cards

Below the box, every project you own appears as a card: a picture of your site, its name, and on hover a status badge.

Cards also show "Created {date}" and "Updated {ago}".

Seeing a coloured square with a letter instead of your website? The picture is a photo taken of your site after it's built. Until that happens, you get the letter tile. Open the project to see the real thing.

The "•••" menu on a card gives you: "Open in new tab" · "Rename" · "Duplicate" · "Add to File" · "Move to Trash".

Finding things

Search. The box says "Search projects...". It matches the project name only — not your description and not your chat messages. It does search your older projects, not just the ones on screen.

Filter buttons: "All" · "Favorites" · "Recent" (the 5 you touched last) · "Running".

Favorites. Click the ☆ star on a card to add it, click again to remove it.

View and sort. Three views — "Grid view", "List view", "Compact view" — and a sort menu with "Last edited" (the default), "Newest first", "Name A-Z", "Name Z-A" and "Most files". Your view choice is remembered between visits.

⚠️ "Most files" currently has no effect — the counts it sorts by aren't being filled in. Use "Last edited" or "Name A-Z" instead.

Showing more. The grid shows 9 projects at a time. "View more projects" loads more, in growing batches. Changing the filter, folder, search or sort resets it back to 9.

"Files" are folders

The wording says "File", but it behaves as a folder that groups projects.

• Create one with the dashed "New File" button. Name it up to 80 characters — "Client work", "Restaurants", "Personal".
• Folders appear as chips with a count. Click a chip to filter to it, click again to leave it.
• Only the first 3 folders show as chips; the rest hide behind the "•••" button next to them.
• Add a project to a folder from the folder icon on its card, or from its "•••" menu → "Add to File".

⚠️ Double-clicking a folder chip deletes that folder (on a phone, press and hold for about half a second). The chip's tooltip says so: "Click to filter · double-click to delete". You still have to type the word DELETE to confirm — and deleting a folder never deletes the projects inside it.

Notifications

Click the 🔔 bell to slide open a panel with everything the studio has told you, grouped "Today" / "Yesterday" / "This week" / "Earlier".

Each row has a ✕ ("Remove"), and "Clear all" empties the list. When there's nothing left you see "You're all caught up."

Typical messages: 🎁 "Your daily prize is ready!", ⚡ "2,101 credits left", ✅ "Saved — your change is in the code", ℹ️ "1 credit charged for this photo".

⚠️ This history lives in the browser you're using, not in your account. A different computer, a different browser, or cleared browsing data means an empty bell. Only the newest 60 items are kept. Nothing is wrong — your builds, photos and credits are all intact.

Deleting and restoring — nothing vanishes

Deleting a project moves it to the bin, and you can put it back with one click.

To delete: card "•••" → "Move to Trash". You must type the word DELETE in capitals to switch the red button on. (If your studio is in another language, you type that language's word — for example SUPPRIMER in French or ELIMINAR in Spanish; the confirmation box shows you the exact word.)

To restore: your photo → "Trash" → "Restore". It comes straight back to your dashboard.

Projects stay in the bin until you delete them yourself. Nothing is erased automatically.

✅ Binned projects don't count towards your 2,000-project limit — so moving projects to the bin really does free room to create new ones, without erasing anything.

⚠️ "Delete" inside the bin erases a project forever: "This action is IRREVERSIBLE. All files, chat history, and versions will be permanently removed." You type DELETE to confirm, and there is no way back after it.

Things that look wrong but aren't

Low-balance warning

When your balance gets low, a pop-up appears once in the corner: "⚡ {n} credits left" with "Top up now so your builds never have to stop." and a "Fund your wallet now" button that opens billing in a new tab, so nothing you're doing is interrupted.

It starts appearing at 3,000 credits or less.