# Verdent Cloud Overview (/docs/verdent-cloud/getting-started/overview)

> Build, preview, publish, share, and improve apps from your browser with Verdent Cloud.



Verdent Cloud is the browser-based Verdent experience for turning an idea into a live web app. The core flow is simple: find inspiration, generate a project, customize it with AI, preview it, publish it to a `*.verdent.app` URL, share it, inspect analytics, and keep iterating.

<Card title="Open Verdent Cloud" icon="cloud" href="https://cloud.verdent.ai/">
  Launch Verdent Cloud in your browser and start building now.
</Card>

<Steps>
  <Step title="Find inspiration">
    Start from a template or use Design Mode to turn an idea into an app.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Generate a project">
    Start from a template, or use Design Mode to turn an idea into an app — either by describing it in the prompt box or by attaching an image/design as reference.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Make it yours">
    Use the AI editing workspace for multi-turn changes, code edits, and Auto fix after failed publish checks.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Preview the real app">
    Open Live Preview and test the app in the browser preview surface before publishing.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Go Live">
    Publish the project, choose Public or Private visibility, and receive a `*.verdent.app` URL.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Share and learn">
    Share the link, check Analytics, inspect publish logs, and return to edit when you want to improve it.
  </Step>
</Steps>

<CardGroup cols="2">
  <Card title="Publish to *.verdent.app" icon="globe" href="/verdent-cloud/publish/go-live">
    Configure URL, title, icon, visibility, and launch your app.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Understand traffic" icon="chart-line" href="/verdent-cloud/insights/analytics">
    Review PV, UV, views per visit, referrers, countries, and devices.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Manage creations" icon="folder-open" href="/verdent-cloud/manage/my-creations">
    Reopen generated websites, documents, data files, images, and published sites.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## What is different from Desktop? [#what-is-different-from-desktop]

Verdent Cloud runs from a browser. Your project workspace runs in Cloud infrastructure, and the browser acts as the control surface for chat, editing, preview, publishing, analytics, and logs. You do not need to install the Desktop app to use this flow.