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Life & fun · August 24, 2014

Codeanywhere

After more than fifteen years, we

Codeanywhere launched on August 24, 2014 with 101 votes, #296 of 2,208 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 12 years on.

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Codeanywhere was a web-based code editor and development environment that allowed users to write, edit, and deploy software from any browser. It served developers who needed to work on code from multiple devices or borrowed computers without installing local tools. After more than fifteen years of operation, the service is shutting down on July 1, 2026, and no longer accepts new signups.

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A fter more than fifteen years, we're winding Codeanywhere down. The service will be turned off on July 1, 2026 , and as of today we are no longer accepting new signups . This isn't a decision we reached lightly, and we wanted to write it down properly rather than let it surface as a banner in the dashboard. If you've ever opened a workspace, pasted a GitHub URL, or shipped something from a browser tab on a borrowed laptop, this one's for you. Codeanywhere started in 2009 as PHPanywhere — a web-based FTP client and editor we built because we were tired of the round-trip between writing code and getting it onto a server. The premise was almost embarrassingly simple: your development…from codeanywhere.com

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