Welcome to this browser based "web editor for web content" instance (we need to workshop that name)!
If you know the owner of this instance, you can sign up for an account and have them enable you as active user, after which you can start using this platform to make cool shit on the web (we probably need to workshop that slogan, too =)
The idea is that this is a platform similar to (the unfortunately now shuttered) Glitch, giving you an editor that lets you work on and with full stack web stuff, directly in the browser, with an immediately hosted version of that available to the public.
The idea is also that there's trust: no drive-by sign ups for putting shit on the web that no one wants. You agree to play by the rules, and in return the instance owner (and anyone they deem trustworthy enough to give admin rights to) will let you do your thing. Break that trust, and the admins may suspend or delete your project(s), or may even suspend or delete your user account.
In return, the admins are on the hook for moderating the instance: different folks will have different standards when it comes to what kind of web content is acceptable, and by signing up at an instance whose policies and code of conduct resonate with you, you are trusting the admins to do a good job making sure violations will be appropriately dealt with. No hiding behind the US communications act section 230: you are on the hook for playing by the rules, and the admins are on the hook for stepping in when you don't.
If you already have an account, just log in:
Note that this second option only exists to do user testing
with fake users, and doesn't actually send out any emails.
The activation link gets logged to the console.
But if you don't, and the above all sounds reasonable, then you'll probably want to sign up.
Note that your user name is "what you want people to see". Whether you will be able to register that will be based on whether or not that name's "slug" equivalent (i.e. a url-safe equivalent) is already taken or not.
Also note that you can add additional authentication methods once your account has been enabled, so that even if you lose access to a service, you're not suddenly also locked out of your account here.
Also, following the same philosophy of trust: instead of a cookie banner, you get an opt-in agreement here. Obviously, logins require storing enough information about you in a database to constitute "personally identifiable information", even if it's indirect information (i.e. auth token data that can be traced back to your account on the auth broker's website, which in turn will have more information about you than is stored here), and persistent logins work because your browser stores an identifier that gets sent to server in order for it to perform session management. So:
By signing up/logging in you are obviously okay with all of the above.
Also also, while this platform offers private files and a way to specify secret environment variables, that privacy is only for the general public. If an admin decides to be a bad actor and looks at your private files or combs through the database looking for API keys, there is nothing you can do to stop that. So: exercise the same caution as you do everywhere else. Don't put information on the internet that you can't afford to have become public, either because you can immediately invalidate things (like keys and certificates) or because the data is useless without some additional off-site information. And of course, sites get hacked. This is simply a fact of life: write your project code accordingly.
Accounts are created in a "disabled" state, requiring an admin to enable them before they can actually use the editor (beyond what anonymous visitors can do). If we know each other, shoot me a message saying you signed up and I'll immediately enable your account, but if I have no idea who you are, it's quite likely that I'll just delete your account...
In fact, that's the main selling point of this platform: you don't need my approval to use it, just go run your own instance and have fun with it. Let your friends join that one, and have a good time on the interwebs.
This instance comes with a bunch of starter projects that you can remix so you don't have to start from scratch, including a basic "single page" HTML/CSS/JS website, a Node.js site that uses Express to run a simple webserver, and even a web graphics demo that lets you write interactive graphics code in JS:
A 2D physics web graphics starter
A basic HTML, CSS, and JS starter project
A basic Node.js Express server with templating
A basic web graphics example, using <graphics-element>
And if none of that sounds appealing, there's also an "empty project" that comes with Node.js (with npm) and Python (with pip) preinstalled, and an empty run script so that you can set up whatever you need in order to do that crazy thing you're thinking about. Just remember that folks trust you to not abuse the platform: don't hog the bandwidth, and don't eat all the disk space. If that's what you want to do, just go run your own instance, and then you can do literally whatever you want!
If you just want to see some cool stuff that's happening on this instance, here are the five most recent projects that people have been working on. You can fire each of them up in the editor view (although of course as a random visitor you will not be able to edit anything), or you can open the associated websites by clicking the link at the bottom of each project card.
Approximating Lamé curves using Bézier curves.
Just three Bézier curves will do the trick!
Created 2025-10-17, last updated 2025-10-17
An implementation of simple Perlin Noise, a grid interpolation based method of generating "well behaved" noise.
Created 2025-10-10, last updated 2025-10-17
An ABCD test for constructing a Bezier curve that needs to pass through B.
Created 2025-10-17, last updated 2025-10-17
A basic HTML, CSS, and JS starter project
Created 2025-09-12, last updated 2025-10-17
A basic web graphics example, using <graphics-element>
Created 2025-08-27, last updated 2025-10-16
✨ You better believe it ✨
Head on over to https://github.com/Pomax/make-webbly-things to read about the platform itself, and see all the code for it so you can check whether you trust that or not. Or even dive in and help implement new features or fix bugs!
In fact, things are so open source that even the projects folks make on this platform are open source. If you don't want people to see your code, this is not the place for you, but if you want to make cool stuff in a way that others can learn from, can remix into their own projects, or that you could even collaborate with on group projects, then this might very well be the thing for you.
It's me, Pomax!
Run your own instance and you can customize the look and feel to your heart's content. After all, it's just CSS!