hello

I have a small application, with a simple user interface built of some controls and Dynamic/DynamicModule. It woks reasonably well on my machine inside the Wolfram Desktop. The question is - and it is much harder than it should be: how do I get it in front of people?

The obvious choice would be to deploy it in the Wolfram Cloud.

CloudDeploy[DynamicModule[...]]

sounds easy... BUT here comes the "but"

I am having trouble finding information that clearly states what works and what does not work in the cloud. From what I've found... it should work. How saving definitions works is absolutely not clear. How performance is affected is again not clear... other than the expectation that things will be slower... how much slower? e.g. Did it crash or is it still running?

As a plan B I started looking at the Wolfram Player. As I understand this started out as "CDF Player" ... but now it can work on notebooks, so... no more "CDF". Again, it sounds easy. Just click Save or Publish to the cloud... then open it up in the free Wolfram Player and.... IT DOES NOT WORK. I see there is a Wolfram Player Pro that gives "extended interactivity". Do I need that? Again, it is not clear.

Thanks for the help.

p.s. Stephen Wolfram should really play "secret shopper" on the wolfram.com website and check if he could build a simple application and deploy it for end users.