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Wahee Al-Jabir
Wahee Al-Jabir

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🚀 I Built a Public Code Playground (Like CodePen, but Open & Free)

Hey folks 👋

I’ve been working on something fun: a playground where you can write HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in the browser and share your creations with the world.

Unlike simple editors, this one isn’t just about coding privately — you can make your projects public, and they’ll appear in the home feed, so others can discover, explore, and remix your work.

✨ What You Can Do

Create pens (HTML, CSS, JS) with live preview

Keep them private or make them public

Public pens appear in a feed, so you can browse what others are building

Share pens with a unique link

Fork and remix someone else’s pen

Export your pen as a zip if you want to run it locally

🌍 Why Public Sharing Matters

Code is more fun when shared. By making your pens public:

Others can learn from your experiments

You can get inspired by what’s trending in the feed

Collaboration becomes as easy as forking and remixing

🔮 What’s Next

I’m planning to add:

Trending and “most forked” sections

User profiles with galleries

Better embedding support (drop your pen into a blog post or portfolio)

Mini Stack Overflow built in for communities.

💡 Why I Built This

CodePen is awesome, but I wanted a playground where the sharing is the focus — not just creating in isolation. The home feed gives it a community feel, and I’m excited to see what people build once they start sharing.

Coming Soon!

Would you use this as a place to share experiments publicly, or should I focus more on private use cases (like scratchpads)?

Please like and share for more updates on the site!

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