Name: PlayCode - Javascript Sandbox/Playground
Rating: 3.67 (3 reviews)

PlayCode is a website where you can type in code and it immediatly shows you what you programmed in a little extra tab. All you need to do is select a programming language or a framework and you can start without needing to set up anything.

Hi ProductHunt. Thanks for your attention to my product. I've been making it alone for 6 years. I've always wanted to make my own startup/business. From the first day I started programming. I've been looking for a long time, what could I do alone? As a result, I decided on a program that facilitates the process of learning programming. How? Build a website where you can type in code and it automatically shows you what you programmed in a little extra tab. All you need to do is select a programming language or a framework and you can start without needing to set up anything. Newbie programmers learn from videos on YouTube or elsewhere, and use playcode to practice. Recently, I decided to go further and not only give a ready-to-use programming environment, but also help learn through interactive courses where you can start from the beginning. Courses give a lesson and challenge to solve. Code, check the result and move on. The most difficult thing was to launch node.js modules directly in the browser without node.js. I researched it for 3-4 years, tried, abandoned, started over. It was very hard mentally, it didn't work out. It got to the point that I took Rollup (a library for building javascript code, like webpack) and literally rewrote it to work in the browser. It worked even faster than the original library. I was very happy. A little later I rewrote it differently and it became even 3 times faster. Thanks to this, you can write code and instantly see the result. I wanted to stop a million times. A super hard problem to solve and super taugh to get motivation to move forward. I got cold many times, depressions, burned out, yet still alive and keep going. Many guys helped me with an advice. Many users give a lot of positive feedback. There are 200,000 monthly unique users. I work full time now. Thanks to the freemium business model. To be honest - I am a bit more happier after many years of hard work.

@ianberdin Congrats and I know that feeling! Love your product, glad you didn't stop.

@thedeletosh thank you Dele!

@ianberdin love the product, just signed up for the pro plan.. i have codepen pro as well, this may replace it.. (although i do like the colab features on codepen on pro plan) good luck.

This is a cool product! Congratulations on the launch!

@shushant_lakhyani Thank you Shushant!

@ianberdin Awesome product! I don't know how about others - but I use PlayCode only for the "javascript instant console evaluation" feature. One idea - what do you think about creating a separate desktop app/website without HTML/CSS, packages, or authentication - just with this one feature I mentioned?

@bartcode hi Bart. Thank you for the idea! Do you have Mac OS? 1. Download the app. 2. Sign in 3. Open template you need (empty script) 4. Click to Untitled 5. Click “default on opening”