Over the past month I've been heads-down shipping features on Cloudpen, a cloud IDE that runs entirely in the browser. Here's what's landed recently:
✅ Git Panel — stage, commit, push, pull, and switch branches without leaving the editor. Real git running under the hood, not an imitation, so history, diffs, and branches behave exactly like they do locally.
✅ SFTP Hosting Deploy — connect any project straight to your cPanel or DirectAdmin shared hosting and push or pull with one click. Only SFTP, never plain FTP, and sensitive files like .env and node_modules are hard-excluded from every push.
✅ API Client — a REST tester built directly into the editor. Think Postman, but you never leave your project.
✅ Environment Variables Manager — set your env vars once and they're available in your terminal and your deployed build automatically.
✅ MCP support, both directions — Quill (the built-in AI assistant) can now query live external backends like Supabase, Postgres, or Neon as an MCP client. And Cloudpen itself now runs as an MCP server, so external tools like Claude Desktop, Claude Code, or Cursor can read your project's files, git history, and deployment status directly.
It's a solo-built product and still evolving fast based on user feedback. I'm running a lifetime deal for early adopters right now, and pricing is going up soon as more of this lands permanently.
If you want to check it out: https://appsumo.com/products/cloudpen?utm_source=partner-link&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=partner-255040
Happy to answer questions about the build, the MCP implementation especially, in the comments.
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