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Clever, but what would you use it for?
Thanks! We were thinking it would be useful for people posting solutions to stackoverflow questions, and also maybe people doing remote-pair-programming, as a way of sharing code with an interactive terminal to work through ideas... Or perhaps for people writing tutorials...
it's fun watching curious people snooping around! !cat /etc/passwd would you eh?
Awesome. Not to mention that even tab/auto-complete works.
Nice work, and I wish you success.

In the same space, I recently discovered http://c9.io , which I'm pretty happy with overall. Very rich feature-set, and it seems to be open source. (I say "seems" because I haven't checked to see if the OSS code is enough to replicate the site on my own hosting.) Although I've had some squirrelly save/load behaviour, which was concerning.

Thanks! We're keeping an eye on Cloud9, they look like a really interesting company in the same space as us...
It seems like a cool service, are you charging enough though?

I made a site in a similar vein a few years ago but it never really caught on. Maybe we should chat.

Thanks! Yes, we think we need a couple of higher-end plans. The current price points are perfect for learners and low-bandwidth/low-CPU side projects, but something higher-end would probably make it more useful and help our bottom line too :-) Would love to chat, drop me a line at giles@pythonanywhere.com.