I Wanted Zed in the Browser, So I Built My Own

A few months ago I started looking for a development setup that felt fast, lightweight, and easy to access remotely.

I really like Zed.

It feels fast, modern, and much less bloated than Electron-based editors.

But I kept running into one problem:

I wanted something I could open from anywhere through the browser.

Not a full cloud platform.

Not a heavy VSCode-in-the-browser setup.

Just a lightweight remote-first IDE that I could run on my VPS or homelab server.

So I started building my own.

The project is called

• Explorer


• Git diff


• AI chat


• Mobile layout

GitHub

If you want to try it:

9ed on GitHub

Would love feedback, especially from people doing remote/self-hosted development setups.