Nope, I went out of my way to make it super accessible so you really only needed an account for the things that cost me money directly, like the weather API (I just wanted to make a few daily maximums for users), and of course, Garmin connect, because, well, I wouldn't want to make users connect with Garmin every time they wanted to send a route.
It sounds like port 8443 is being blocked, if you wouldn't mind (and I totally understand if you're busy doing other things) if you hit f12 and go to console, you can paste any error messages that appear in the console when you try to route, bceause yeah, you should be able to click around to create the route, that would help me tremendously in figuring out what's going on.