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akinder
I was able to see the homepage but then the site went down before I could get any further.
Xion
The Ballmer video on maintenance page more than makes up for any issues, though.
ykumar6
Should be fixed now, are you guys still seeing the issue?
Xion
Works for me now. Thanks!
akinder
Works for me now as well!
pablasso
They are way more stable than a few years ago but I just never trust browsers to write anything at all.
ebbv
At the risk of giving away a million dollar idea; nobody's gonna wanna really edit things in the browser. Too risky and missing features of whatever their favorite editor is.

But how about letting people push their code up via git? So you could have a runnable browser window open, push your changes up to your runnable repo and then hit run?

If this does turn out to be the key that breaks this open please remember it was my idea.

ykumar6
Stay tuned :) We already offer this in our private beta.
oinksoft
I have to remember that line ;^)
creativename
Soooort of off-topic, but I've actually had a lot of success using Cloud9 IDE (https://c9.io/) as an in-browser editor. It really closely mirrors Sublime Text 2 as far as default functionality and appearance goes. Of course, I'm coming from a Visual Studio IDE background rather than a Vim/Emacs background, so I can't vouch for its usefulness for users more accustomed to that type of work environment.

Note: not affiliated with Cloud 9

bmuon
Here's another idea. JSBin is doing something pretty awesome: it uses the HTML5 File API so that you can select a file from your computer and it syncs to different instances of the same bin while you edit it in your favorite editor. Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY56fNmn2cE (keep in mind the video was taken during development, now it's pretty stable).

BTW some people like editing in the browser and that's why Cloud9IDE is alive.

tjmehta
Drag-and-drop support for files is coming really soon :)
joshuamerrill
Support for git would be awesome, but I think the product now is pretty great. I'd love to be able to hack away on APIs without doing the set up work.
ykumar6
Git support is available in private beta.
judofyr
Was this an intended joke on Heroku?

Heroku started out as "develop Rails in your browser", but quickly pivoted into "host Rails in the cloud".

ykumar6
We're not trying to be a cloud ide :) Think content, and lots of it..
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ykumar6
Git is going to be coming, very very soon ...
ceeK
At first I thought this was some sort of JSFiddle but for server backends. Is this what it is aimed at? Or is it more cloud development for teams?
ykumar6
First reaction sounds about right. We want to make it easy for anyone to share runnable code, across multiple stacks and platforms
jokecamp
For a learning and code sharing facility I think it is very cool. I can try out and hack some code on technologies I have not experimented with yet.
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dodolab
Looks cool. is there a way to add dependencies and packages (npm?)?
zenocon
Looks really nice, and seems well done. Congrats. I like this a lot...like plnkr.co / jsfiddle for full stack examples.
ykumar6
You got the right idea :) What kind of full stack examples would you like to see?
tantalor
In some of the examples that use OAuth, the tokens are things like GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID and GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET.

  var params = {
  	code: code,
  	client_id: 'GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID',
  	client_secret: 'GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET',
  	redirect_uri: callbackURL,
  	grant_type: 'authorization_code'
  };
Are these replaced somehow with real values? Where does that happen?
enos_feedler
They are replaced with real values on a proxy server, outside of the node.js process.
tantalor
Thought so! As I was walking to work I realized this was the easiest way to protect the integrity of the tokens.
steeve
Seems awfully similar to http://webshell.io/
tjmehta
Not really, webshell looks like there are trying to become an All-in-one API of APIs. Runnable is trying to be a platform for sharing code examples for APIs, modules, and any other full-stack code snippets.
fonziguy
Looks like Webshell is integrating APIs into your site, while Runnable is about API discovery, prototyping, learning from others (more of a Stack Overflow direction).
quanfucius
Looks really awesome. Good job guys!
supernayan1
I want to sign in with GitHub and see my projects run.
retrograde
+1 for running my projects. Seems like this has all the pieces already, at least for Node stuff.
duaneb
Is this javascript only?
tjmehta
node.js (backend javascript), and frontend javascript and css. Looking to support more backend languages in the near future (Ruby, Python, PHP, more)
ykumar6
If you find Runnable.com to be slow, please bear with us. We're getting slammed right now and it should get a lot better with the day.
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mike_ivanov
Does anyone know to make the cursor stop blinking in their editor?
SEJeff
setterm -cursor off

Also put this in ~/.bashrc for a solid yellow non-blinking cursor:

echo -n -e '\e[?17;14;224c'

tectonic
Here's what I've been looking for: let me put a badge on my open source project on GitHub which launches a Runnable with the project so that people can play with it without having to pull the source and set it up themselves.
cburgmer
I am currently trying to set up a demo for a project, and a simple 'plug and play' would be great.
cburgmer
Copy pasting huge amount of JS libraries does not seem to work for me. Is there a way of uploading files from my local hard drive?
cburgmer
Sourcing the files from other servers solved that for me. I am still thinking in terms of a locked down jsfiddle I guess.
mickaelkel
What would be the price of your service or the business model?

It seems you will sell our developers APIkey registration...