The reason irccloud is popular is that it is simple to set up and there is a really great mobile client. No one really needs another web based client, even if it is free; there are plenty of alternatives for that such as ircanywhere[1] or Convos[2].
I'm really not sure who this is for.
[1] http://ircanywhere.com/
[2] https://github.com/Nordaaker/convos