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YOUR IDEA. YOUR AI. YOUR FIRST DEPLOYMENT.

STOP PROMPTING.
START SHIPPING.

The 15-minute Clever Cloud Challenge

Build a tiny web app.
Deploy it on Clever Cloud.

ANY STACK · ANY AI · ONE APP · ONE PUBLIC URL

15 minutes to ship. €20 included with your new account.

START THE CHALLENGEI already shipped it

No prizes. No rankings. Just your first app, live on Clever Cloud.

FROM IDEA TO PUBLIC URL

HOW IT WORKS

Keep it small. Make it work. Put it online.

  1. 01

    CREATE YOUR ACCOUNT

    Create a Clever Cloud account. New accounts include €20 in credit – enough to build and deploy your first small app. There is no promotional coupon code to enter.

    YOUR STARTING CREDIT IS ALREADY THEREOnce your account is ready, you can go straight to building and deploying.
  2. 02

    BUILD SOMETHING TINY

    Use any AI and any stack you like. A useful tool, a small game, a personal page or a fun experiment – one clear idea is enough.

  3. 03

    MAKE IT WORK LOCALLY

    Run the app, try its main interaction and fix the obvious errors. Small and working beats ambitious and unfinished.

  4. 04

    DEPLOY

    Create the application on Clever Cloud, deploy your code and make sure it works at a public URL.

  5. 05

    SUBMIT AND SHARE

    Fill in the form with your app's public URL. If you choose to share it publicly, your app can join the gallery and help inspire the next person.

    FILL IN THE FORM ↓

15 minutes is a target, not a cutoff.Take a little longer if you need to. Shipping is what counts.

A LITTLE HELP TO GET MOVING

DON'T KNOW
WHERE TO START?

Copy this into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Mistral, Copilot… whatever you like. The goal is to ship.

YOUR STARTER PROMPT
I’m taking the 15-minute Clever Cloud Challenge.

Help me build and deploy my first tiny web application on Clever Cloud.

The goal is to have, as quickly as possible:
- a simple but working web application
- the application deployed on Clever Cloud
- a public URL that I can open and share.

Help me keep the idea small enough to build and deploy within roughly 15 minutes. You can choose the fastest suitable stack.

Please guide me step by step, but do as much of the work as possible yourself.

For the Clever Cloud part:
- if you are a coding agent that supports skills, install the official Clever Cloud skill with npx skills add CleverCloud/clever-tools and use it
- otherwise, use the official Clever Cloud documentation
- install and use the Clever Tools CLI when appropriate
- guide me through authentication if needed
- create and configure the application
- deploy the application
- verify that the public URL works.

Keep it simple. This is a 15-minute challenge.

Start by proposing 3 fun, tiny app ideas that could realistically be built and deployed within 15 minutes. Let me choose one, then immediately start building and shipping it.

Need the docs? Open the official Clever Cloud documentation.

MAKE IT OFFICIAL

I SHIPPED IT

Submit the public URL of your app. That is it – you have shipped your first app on Clever Cloud.

OPEN SUBMISSION FORM (new tab)

Featuring your app in the public gallery is optional. The gallery shows only information you choose to share publicly.

Can't see the form? Open it in a new tab.

YOUR FINISH LINE

DONE MEANS LIVE

Your first deployment does not need to be perfect. It needs to exist.

01

IT LOADS

Your app opens without errors at its public URL.

02

IT WORKS

The one thing you built it to do can be tried by someone else.

03

YOU SHARED IT

You submitted the URL. Take the win, then keep improving it.