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CodeNow.Com Lets You Build And Test Code In Real Time, In Your Browser

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I would like to try it Yash, can you let me in? :) Anyway; it seems rather fishy how enthusiastic the comments on TC are. Without seeing anything... I do like this kind of stuff but these people are acting like you cured cancer which you might have done only no-one can see it actually?

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I'm also wondering (and very curious!) what you are doing different than http://www.coderun.com/ide/ http://c9.io/ ? Is it the immediate result iframe on the right?

We've had the product in private-beta for the last few weeks. Most of the users commenting are in the private beta

I'll be sending out invites soon It's different from CodeRun, etc because we are API-focused

Thanks! I signed up tycho at e-lab. I would love to try it; APIs are a pain sometimes so I believe you have something there.

http://www.codenow.com/

The site wants you to enter your email and request an invite.

I signed up, I figured it was worth a try. It executes server side code when the other code sandboxes like jsfiddle out there don't.

What we are doing is very tricky, so we are throttling the flow of users into the system

Hence the email signup form. No spam, promise!

Yash (Chief Hacker, CodeNow.com)

It looks like it supports PHP; anything else?

We support every web stack - PHP, Python, Ruby and Node

Interesting definition of every :)

Can you define "support"?

I want to know if their JS [attempts to] parse the code (ex: PHP), or if it sends it to one of their servers (that's running PHP) and gets the output.

I get that it works in the browser using JS, but does this work offline?

Common JVM and .NET web stacks are missing, which are my daily bread.

Funny definition of every.

This looks really promising! But I can't really say until I try it out ... would love to be let in the beta since I do a lot of exploratory coding with API's and always setting up a minimal environment is a pain.

Does it also support collaboration? That'd come in handy for teaching people web programming.

FYI there is also CodeNow.org. It's an initiative similar to Hungry Academy but it's aim is teaching youth how to code thru workshops (D.C based as of now).

We're building a PaaS/DaaS that supports all major web frameworks.

No Server Setup, No API Setup, Easy Sharing & Version Control

- Yash (Chief Hacker, CodeNow.com)

http://ideone.com is far better, with support for way more languages, including C++, LLVM, C#, brainfuck, and every other language on the planet. Oh, and it doesn't require registration.

There's also http://codepad.org/, but it doesn't support as many languages.

We are focused on API support, and building an awesome end-user experience.

I can see this paving the way for a generation of engineers. I meet so many people who would love to hack and also enroll in a CS degree but the barriers to entry are way to high, this is a great bridge.

How does this differ from a site like Kodingen (https://kodingen.com/#)? They're doing a renovation and a re-brand to 'Koding' at the moment though.

We believed in a simplified, consumer-friendly experience with drag & drop support for major APIs.

Epic! About time someone made a real-time online editor/tester for PHP. If this can combine the best of JSFiddle and CSSDeck with PHP included, I'm super keen. Can I grab an early invite? ;)

We support Ruby, Node & Python as well.

Perhaps quickly add them to the screenshot?

I just spent way too long trying to figure out how to do something simple with facebook open graph. Haven't used codenow yet, but it looks like it could have saved me a ton of time.

Can it run a Lisp?

Flippin sweet

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