Hey Sumo-lings,

Cloudpen now supports Web3. You can write a Solidity smart contract, compile it, and deploy it to a live testnet, all inside the browser, with no separate setup.

Normally, getting to that point means two credentials: an RPC URL from a provider like Alchemy or Infura, and your wallet's private key. Signing up for an RPC provider alone is a real barrier if you've never done it before, and it has nothing to do with the contract you actually want to write.

So we built it with both options from day one. Bring your own RPC key if you have one, or skip that step entirely: Cloudpen runs its own shared RPC pool for Sepolia that your project falls back to automatically. Either way, your wallet's PRIVATE_KEY stays yours. We never touch it, never share it.

What you get:

• Write a Solidity contract, hit Deploy, done. One credential (your wallet) if you use the shared pool, or your own RPC setup if you prefer.

• Scoped to Sepolia testnet only, so no real money is ever at risk.

• Ready made templates to start from: Hardhat Starter, ERC 20 Token, and NFT Contract, all pre wired with OpenZeppelin and a working deploy script.

Next on our roadmap: expanding this template set with more Web3 starters, the same way you already fork any other project template today.

Go compile and deploy your first ERC-20, or fork one of the templates and ship something in the next ten minutes.

Try it here: https://cloudpen.dev/docs#deploy-overview
Everything else we've shipped recently: https://cloudpen.dev/changelog

Thanks for building with us so far. More soon.

Augustine
Founder, Cloudpen

Hey Sumo-lings,

It's September 1st, and before anything else, this one's for you. A small gift for the new month: a reminder that even the best code needs a moment to breathe, and that we built this because we care about you, not just your deploys.

Here's what's new: Cloudpen now has an Arcade, available on every plan. It's a tab on your dashboard, no scores tracked, no pressure, just a place to step away from the terminal for a few minutes when a bug's got you stuck or you just need five quiet minutes between builds.

What's in it:

• Night Run: a neon 3D racer built with Three.js. Drift through corners to fill your nitro, then unleash it on the straights.

• Neon Siege: a top down twin stick shooter with waves, bosses, and a dash mechanic.

• Chess: a full engine we built from scratch: legal move validation, castling, en passant, promotion, adjustable AI difficulty, hints, save/load, even clocks. Play the bot or pass and play with a friend.

• Typing Sprint, Word Rush, Speed Math, etc.: quick, low stakes games for the in between moments.

And this isn't a one off drop. The Arcade will keep getting maintained, improved, and updated regularly, and we'll be adding new games as time goes on.

We know most of you didn't come to Cloudpen for games. You came to ship. But burnout is real, and a five minute break that doesn't pull you out of your workspace is worth more than it sounds like on paper. Consider this our way of saying: take the break, we've got you.

Try it here: https://cloudpen.dev/arcade

Everything else we've shipped recently: https://cloudpen.dev/changelog

Happy September. Go easy on yourself this month.

Thanks for building with us so far. More soon.

Augustine
Founder, Cloudpen

Hey Sumo-lings,

A few weeks ago we mentioned something big was coming. Today it's live.

Cloudpen now deploys real backend apps, Laravel, PHP, with a hosted MySQL database to match, right from inside the browser. As far as we can tell, Cloudpen is the first browser-based cloud IDE to ship one-click fullstack deployment paired with a built-in hosted database and phpMyAdmin access, all without leaving the editor. This has been the single most requested feature since launch, and it's now real.

What you get:

- Write a Laravel/PHP app in Cloudpen, hit deploy, and it's live at yourproject.cloudpen.dev, a real persistent backend, not a static preview.

- Provision a hosted MySQL database per project, with full phpMyAdmin access, same convenience as cPanel, but built into your editor.

- Deploy a backend for the same project and your database credentials are wired into your app automatically, no manual .env setup.

Want to see it running before you try it yourself? We built and deployed a full Laravel app entirely inside Cloudpen. Backend deployment and hosted database are both live on it right now: https://blog-project.cloudpen.dev/. Fork it, poke around, break it, see exactly how the pieces fit together.

One thing still on the roadmap: connecting to your hosted database from an app hosted outside Cloudpen isn't live yet. For now, it's fully wired up for anything you deploy on Cloudpen itself. External connections are coming.

Availability varies by tier. Check your Billing page for your exact deployment and database allowance, or the full breakdown in the docs below.

Full docs on how it all works: https://cloudpen.dev/docs

Everything else we've shipped recently: https://cloudpen.dev/changelog

This one's been months in the making. Would love to hear what you build with it, reply here or drop it in the Cloudpen community.

Thanks for building with us so far. More soon.

Augustine

Founder, Cloudpen

A lot of you have been asking for this, and it's the natural next step after Git Panel and hosting deploy. Right now Cloudpen deploys static and frontend projects. What's coming next is real backend hosting, starting with PHP and Laravel.

Why PHP/Laravel first: it's the most requested, and it fits how Cloudpen is architected today. Node.js, Express, and Python support will follow once that foundation is solid. Next.js SSR is on the radar too, just further out.

This turns Cloudpen from a frontend cloud IDE into a place where you can build and deploy full fullstack projects end to end. Same workflow you already know: build, git, deploy, just with a real backend running behind it.

More details soon. If backend hosting is something you need, send us an email ([email protected]) to join the waiting list and tell us what you're building. It's helping shape what ships first.

Thanks for building with us so far. More soon.

— Augustine, Founder, Cloudpen

Since launch, we've shipped consistently.

1. A full Git Panel with staging, commits, push, pull, and branches, real git under the hood, not an imitation.
2. One click SFTP Hosting Deploy straight to your own cPanel or DirectAdmin.
3. An API Client built into the editor (think of it like Postman in Cloudpen).
4. An Environment Variables manager. A templates library that grows every week.
5. And most recently, MCP support in both directions. Quill can now query your live Supabase, Postgres, or Neon backend as an MCP client, and Cloudpen itself now runs as an MCP server, so Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, or any MCP compatible client can read your project's files, git history, and deployment status directly.

That's a lot of real, ongoing engineering, and real ongoing cost on our end in AI tokens, compute, and storage to keep improving it.

Thanks for building with us so far. More soon.

Augustine

Founder, Cloudpen