Publish your app. Set your price. We keep it running.

Clouve is a marketplace where businesses install apps in a few minutes. You package your app once, starting from the docker-compose.yml you already have. Clouve runs every customer’s copy, bills the customer and pays you what you set per subscriber.

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Sell software without becoming a hosting company

Each customer gets their own copy of your app. Clouve runs those copies, and you keep working on the product.

Clouve handles

  • Installing and hosting every customer’s deployment
  • Web addresses, SSL and monitoring
  • Billing the customer each month
  • Platform support: installs, uptime, accounts and billing

You handle

  • Your app and its new versions
  • Your listing: description, category and price
  • Questions about how your app works
  • App-specific setup help, if your app needs it

Publishing, step by step

A five-step wizard in your dashboard, with nothing Clouve-specific to rewrite. A simple single-container app typically takes a few hours from first login to published.

  1. Get developer access

    Sign up and request developer access. Your organization gets a private container registry for your images.

  2. Describe the listing

    The name, a short and a full description, a category, tags, an icon, and who can see it: everyone, only your organization, or only you.

  3. Upload your compose file

    Clouve reads your docker-compose.yml and gives each service its own tab. You set CPU, memory and storage. Password variables become secrets, generated fresh for every deployment. One switch offers the optional AI Assistant. On a paid plan it comes with a monthly AI usage allowance set by Clouve.

  4. Set your price

    You set what you earn per subscriber each month. If you offer the AI Assistant, you can also set your own AI Assistant fee, from $0 to $500 a month. Clouve adds the hosting cost for each capacity tier and its own AI Assistant fee, and shows the total the customer pays. Each customer decides whether to add the AI Assistant.

  5. Version, review and submit

    Give the release a version and a changelog, check the listing as buyers will see it, accept the terms and submit.

  6. Review and go live

    The Clouve team reviews it. If it needs changes, the feedback appears on your listing. Once approved, it’s published in the marketplace. Updates go through the same flow as new versions.

Who publishes on Clouve

Independent developers

Earn every month a customer stays subscribed, without running a server for each one.

Implementation partners

Package a bundle of apps with your standard setup for the clients you serve. Advising clients more than building apps? See the partner program.

Software studios

Spend your time on the product instead of on each customer’s infrastructure.

What a good listing includes

Buyers decide from the listing alone, so reviews look for these.

A plain-language overview
What the app does and who it’s for.
Setup requirements
Any settings a buyer needs for the install.
Data use
A high-level overview of the data the app stores.
Support details
How buyers reach you, and what you cover.

Getting paid

Clouve pays you automatically through PayPal on the 5th of each month. The Earnings page in Clouve shows what you’ll be paid next and where every amount came from, and your developer dashboard shows your active subscriptions and monthly revenue.

How earnings and payouts work

The Clouve developer dashboard after a first subscriber: one active subscription, this month's revenue, revenue by month with a link to earnings and payouts, and one published app.
The developer dashboard after the first subscription, from the publishing demo. Demo data.

Package your app once and sell it to every customer

Sign up, request developer access and start the wizard with the compose file you already have.

Start publishing Read the developer docs