Hi @j.brusselle I think you are a bit confused, N8N Starter Plan is for n8n CLOUD, basically on n8n cloud you do not need anything local just visit the link and start using n8n and everything is on cloud infrastructure powered by n8n:
And now if you want to actually get your self hosted instance to be registered consider getting yourself a free license key from:
And once you have it registered or facing some issue with it read this:
hope this helps.