Mike Cave

For context: I freelanced for about 4 to 5 years building and digitizing small businesses. Here's the pattern that stuck with me: the build was never the hard part. It was everything after. I'd ship a solid site, hand it over, and then the owner would run into the stuff no website can handle on its own: "it got slow when my flash sale hit," "I need to move to a bigger server," "how do I add SSL," "is my data even backed up?" None of that is about the site being bad. It's that running a server is ongoing work, and a non-technical owner simply can't do it. So every time their business grew or had a busy day, they had to hire me (or someone) again. They didn't want a developer on retainer, they just wanted their thing online and stable.

So I built Cloudnan: a server management platform you operate by talking to it. Connect your own VPS or buy one in-app, then deploy from GitHub or a container registry, run WordPress and databases, manage domains, monitoring, backups, and security. The AI does the actual server work, you just say what you want in plain language. It's not AI-only, it's a full platform with the AI on top.

We've been live for a while but recently shipped a meaningful update across the marketplace, governance layer.

Before we push harder on distribution, want honest reads from this community.

A few specific things I'd appreciate feedback on:

- Does the messaging on the homepage actually explain what we do in 10 seconds?