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Get your software products live and ready for customers in under 10 minutes. CNAP handles the infrastructure complexity so you can focus on what matters - building and selling great software.

Start Interactive Quickstart

The interactive onboarding is the fastest path towards your first sale.

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Good to know

Understanding the basics of cloud infrastructure will help you get started quickly:
  • Server: A physical or virtual machine that runs your applications.
  • Cluster: A group of servers working together for reliability and scalability.
  • Cloud Instance: A virtual server provided by a cloud provider.
For more information:
No Kubernetes or DevOps expertise required – CNAP handles the infrastructure for you!
Cloud regions let you organize your infrastructure by geographical location. Choosing the right region can improve performance for and help meet data residency requirements of your customers.
  • Regions are typically named by location (e.g., fsn1 for Falkenstein, Germany in Hetzner Cloud).
  • Deploying in multiple regions can provide redundancy and lower latency for global customers.
Helm charts are packages that simplify deploying and managing software on Kubernetes. They define all the resources needed for your application, ensuring that installation and upgrades are smooth. CNAP takes care of deploying and synchronizing your product’s chart along with any customer-supplied values to the appropriate cluster and namespace, eliminating the associated overhead.
  • Many popular applications already have Helm charts available.
  • Advanced users can create custom charts for their own software.
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To sell your software, you’ll need a payment provider. Stripe is a widely used solution for accepting payments online.
  • Setting up a Stripe account is quick and allows you to securely accept payments.
  • CNAP integrates with Stripe to help you monetize your products.
Get started:
  • You do not need to create a Stripe account before using CNAP.
  • Connect your Stripe account using the integrated button in the CNAP dashboard.

Manual Quickstart Steps

Prefer a step-by-step walkthrough? The manual guide shows you exactly how to launch your product from start to finish with the CNAP dashboard.

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Continue Building and Selling

You’re set up for success! Your product is live on the Marketplace. Here’s how to start making money:

Simple Math to Your First Million

10 paying customers × 100/month=100/month = 1,000 MRR → $12K ARR → YOUR FIRST MICRO-SAAS

Then scale to 100 customers = 10KMRR→10K MRR → 120K ARR → LIFE-CHANGING INCOME

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Next Steps to Revenue

Customize Your Marketplace

Brand your storefront and optimize for customer conversion

Learn Proven Success Strategies

Study how to turn software into million-dollar businesses

Add More Products

Expand your catalog with additional software offerings

Scale Your Operations

Grow your infrastructure as customer demand increases

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Focus on What Matters Most

With CNAP handling infrastructure complexity, you can focus on activities that directly generate revenue. Successful cloud-native businesses prioritize solving painful customer problems over building infrastructure. They ship features quickly to get from idea to paying customers in days rather than months. Smart pricing means charging $50-100+ monthly for base plans since most successful products price based on value delivered. Finally, targeting specific business segments allows you to serve companies with expensive, specific problems they’ll pay premium rates to solve.
Revenue tip: B2B products typically generate more revenue with fewer customers than B2C products. Focus on business problems worth $100+ per month to solve.

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Need Help?

  • Check that the machine has internet connectivity - Verify the setup command was copied correctly - Ensure you’re running the command as root (with sudo) - Wait 2-3 minutes for the connection to establish
CNAP is planning automatic server provisioning and management using cloud provider APIs. See our roadmap → for timeline and KaaS docs → for details.
You can connect existing Kubernetes clusters to CNAP instead of creating new ones. Import guide →
Pro tip: Start with one server and add more as your customer base grows. CNAP makes it easy to scale your infrastructure without any downtime.
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