Came here to complain about the same. I downloaded the app, but it needs an online account. What's the whole purpose of making it open source and downloadable, if it doesn't work offline?

> built-in local instance creator

The self hosted version needs an account outside your network?

Apparently.

I'm stuck at waiting for a confirmation e-mail.

    PENPOT_FLAGS=disable-email-verification

Which file needs that?

That sounds like an environment variable to set when you start it.

That was it.

I'm in!

Thanks!