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Codeanywhere
DefunctTechstars '14San Francisco, US · Founded 2011 · 1 employees on LinkedIn · 2 known investors
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Codeanywhere is a web-based IDE that provides cloud development environments with AI-assisted coding capabilities, pre-configured tech stacks, and collaborative features for developers. The platform supports multiple programming languages and integrates with GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket.
Also known as Codeanywhere, Inc. · PHPanywhere
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Company profile
researched Sep 2026Codeanywhere is a cross-platform cloud integrated development environment created by Codeanywhere, Inc. that lets users write, edit, collaborate on and run web development projects from a web browser or a mobile device. The editor is written in JavaScript and based on CodeMirror, and development environments run in OpenVZ containers known as DevBoxes. The platform is described as agnostic to the underlying infrastructure: users can run code in Codeanywhere's own containers or connect to their own virtual machines over SSH or FTP, and can also link storage accounts such as Dropbox and Google Drive. It supports more than 75 programming languages, including HTML, JavaScript, Node.js, io.js, PHP, Ruby, Python and Go, and projects can be connected to Git remotes at GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket.
The product's stated premise is that a development environment should not be tied to a single machine, allowing development from a Chromebook, a phone or a borrowed computer with nothing installed locally. Over time the offering moved from editing files over FTP to full containerized environments that can be started in seconds, and in 2022 the company launched a beta using Infrastructure as Code so that developers would not have to configure environments manually. In 2017 Codeanywhere acquired Codebender, a cloud IDE for Arduino development.
On June 7, 2026 the company announced it is winding Codeanywhere down: new signups closed the same day, existing accounts continue to work through June 30, 2026 as an export window, and the service goes offline on July 1, 2026, after which workspaces, containers and any remaining data will be inaccessible. Recurring charges are being stopped as part of the wind-down and support is handled at support@codeanywhere.net.
Founding story
Codeanywhere grew out of PHPanywhere, which its creators built in 2009 because they were tired of the round trip between writing code and moving it onto a server; the guiding idea was that a development environment should follow the developer rather than live on one machine. The founders, Ivan Burazin and Vedran Jukić, are based in Split, Croatia, and relaunched the project as Codeanywhere in May 2013.
Business model
Codeanywhere operates a hosted software service, providing browser-accessible containerized development environments to individual developers and teams. The sunset notice refers to stopping recurring charges and to customers not being billed for time after the service ends, indicating a subscription-based billing model.
Latest developments
On June 7, 2026 Codeanywhere published a post announcing the wind-down of the service. New signups were closed immediately; the platform stays fully online through June 30, 2026 so users can export data by pushing to Git providers such as GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket or downloading from their DevBox or container; and on July 1, 2026 the service goes offline. Recurring charges are being stopped, with no billing for time after the service ends. The company said a classic cloud IDE is no longer the right use of its time as development shifts toward describing software to a model rather than editing in a tab.
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Market position
Codeanywhere presents itself as an early entrant in browser-based development, stating it pioneered coding in the browser when the idea was still unfamiliar and helped establish "cloud IDE" as a category. By 2022 it was operating alongside newer cloud developer environment products such as GitHub Codespaces, and in its 2026 sunset post it stated that the dominant form of browser-based development had shifted from the IDE toward prompt-driven, model-generated coding.
The platform is positioned as infrastructure-agnostic: users can either use Codeanywhere-hosted containers or attach their own VMs over SSH or FTP, and connect cloud storage such as Dropbox and Google Drive, with support for more than 75 languages and browser and mobile access. The 2017 Codebender acquisition added Arduino development in the same browser tab.
Technology
The service is written in JavaScript with an editor based on CodeMirror, and uses OpenVZ containers for development environments (called DevBoxes). It supports connections to users' own VMs via SSH or FTP, plus Dropbox and Google Drive, and supports more than 75 programming languages. A 2022 beta applied Infrastructure as Code to automate environment configuration.
Go-to-market
Individual developers and development teams working in the browser, including students using school computers without installed toolchains, open-source maintainers spinning up clean environments to review pull requests, and developers without access to powerful local hardware.
Geography
The founders are based in Split, Croatia. Wikipedia categorizes the company under companies based in Palo Alto, California and software companies of Croatia. The product is delivered over the web and the company highlights users in locations where a powerful local machine is not a given.
History
The lineage began in 2009 with PHPanywhere, a web-based FTP client and text editor designed for PHP. The project remained idle until May 22, 2013, when the founders launched Codeanywhere. The company raised $600,000 from World Wide Web Hosting on July 15, 2013, was accepted into Techstars's Fall 2014 Boston class, and was voted best company in Startup Alley by the audience at TechCrunch Disrupt NY in 2014. In 2017 it acquired the Arduino-focused cloud IDE Codebender. In 2022 it launched a beta built around Infrastructure as Code in response to the emergence of cloud developer environments such as GitHub Codespaces. On June 7, 2026 the company announced the service would be shut down on July 1, 2026.
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Timeline · 7
launches, deals, and filingsIn a blog post dated June 7, 2026, Codeanywhere announced it is winding the service down. New signups closed immediately, the platform remains online through June 30, 2026 for data export, and goes offline on July 1, 2026, after which workspaces, containers and remaining data are inaccessible. Recurring charges stop as part of the wind-down. The company cited the shift in development tooling away from browser-based IDEs toward prompt-driven "vibe coding".
Following the emergence of Cloud Developer Environments (CDEs), Codeanywhere launched a beta project using Infrastructure as Code so developers would not have to configure development environments manually.
Codeanywhere acquired Codebender, another cloud IDE used to develop for Arduino devices, allowing users to build for Arduino in the browser.
Codeanywhere was accepted into Techstars's Fall 2014 Boston class.
At the TechCrunch Disrupt NY conference in 2014, the audience voted Codeanywhere the best company in Startup Alley.
After the PHPanywhere project stayed idle, the founders launched Codeanywhere on May 22, 2013.
PHPanywhere, the predecessor to Codeanywhere, launched as a web-based FTP client and text editor designed for PHP.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Codeanywhere do?
- Codeanywhere is a cross-platform cloud IDE, launched 2013, that is shutting down its service on July 1, 2026.
- Who are Codeanywhere's investors?
- Codeanywhere's investors include Techstars.
- Where is Codeanywhere headquartered?
- Codeanywhere is headquartered in San Francisco, US.