About Playcode

We build the software businesses run on - and the cloud it runs on.

Ten years of coding infrastructure, 2.7 million projects, and our own cloud in two European regions. Describe what you need; Playcode builds it, runs it and keeps it running.

Years online

2.7M+

Projects built

100+

Countries

Languages

2017

Profitable since

99.9%

Measured uptime

The record

Ten years of infrastructure. Now it compounds.

Playcode started in 2016 as a code playground in the browser. You opened a tab, typed, and the thing ran next to you - no install, no setup, no server to rent. Running other people's code safely, instantly, and at scale is a hard infrastructure problem, and it is the one we chose to solve first.

Millions of projects across more than a hundred countries later, that problem is solved, and the solution compounds. A decade of unglamorous engineering - isolation, boot times, storage, uptime - is now the layer everything else stands on. It also made the company profitable in 2017, which is how we could afford to build a cloud instead of renting one.

In late 2025 we turned the playground into a builder. Describe what you need; Playcode AI writes it, shows it running, and changes it when you ask. In 2026 we finished the other half - our own cloud. Every project gets a real machine: backend, database, files, HTTPS, and a rewind that puts code, files, and database back to a saved moment together. We own the hardware, in two EU regions, which is why we can promise things a rented stack cannot.

Playcode is now for the people who run the business rather than the software: the owner of a clinic, a studio, a workshop, a small agency - anyone who needs the app their week actually runs on and has nobody on staff to build it. The bet is simple. Most software a business buys today, it will describe tomorrow. We are building the company that takes the description and runs it.

Who runs it

A founder who still writes the code, and two advisors who have done it at scale.

Ruslan Ianberdin

Founder & CEO

Founded Playcode in 2016 and still writes code for it. Around twenty years building software across marketplaces, crypto exchanges, and enterprise and government platforms. Previously Head of Development at Simplenight, Miami.

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Anton Isaikin

Advisor

Co-founder of Fundraise Up (New York, 300+ people, over $1B in donations processed a year). Advises on product strategy, growth, and go-to-market.

Yuriy Smirnov

Advisor

Co-founder of Fundraise Up. Advises on engineering and platform architecture. Hands-on with Playcode since 2024.

Specification

Where it runs, who can reach it, what stays yours.

Compliance: SOC 2 and GDPR programs in progress, documentation on request. Encrypted in transit and at rest. Your code is never used to train models.
Hosting: EU bare-metal in two regions, Germany and Finland, owned and operated by Playcode. Cloudflare and AWS for global routing. HTTPS on every project.
Uptime: 99.9% measured uptime, monitored continuously since 2016. Daily encrypted backups with point-in-time recovery.
Access control: Production database access is held by one engineer. The smallest attack surface we can run. Server entry is VPN-only, and data goes only to the sub-processors listed in our Privacy Policy.
DDoS protection: Cloudflare edge protection on every request. Continuously online since 2016, with no major incident.
Data ownership: Every project is real code you can export - React, Vue, HTML. Close the account and the data goes with it.