Vue Storefront OSS deployment

Hey folks!! I am following the steps in this guide: https://docs.vuestorefront.io/cookbook/oss-deployment-guide I have gotten to the last step and have finished setting up my github repo with the SSH keys and the updated deploy.sh script. Am I supposed to clone the vue-storefront repo found here: https://github.com/vuestorefront/vue-storefront into my own as a starter and commit to main to have it kick off the deployment? The example shows me what happens when I make future changes to my codebase, but I have no codebase since this is a fresh install. How do I go about deploying it for the very first time? Am I missing something really fundamental here?
Vue Storefront Docs
OSS Deployment Guide
In this guide we'll show you how to deploy an Open Source Vue Storefront application to a production server.
GitHub
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