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ecyrbe

Hi,
I understand what your product is trying to achieve. No doubt that technically it might be easier.

I used similar products (github codespaces, redhat codeready workspaces, gitpod)... As a curious professionnal developper i like testing these products.

But in the end, none are making me more productive than a good docker compose setup.

As a team leader, i only setup the dev environnement once with docker compose. Then all my teams only have to get my docker compose once and do a simple docker-compose up -d and have their dev environnement ready in minutes. They don't need to understand docker to make it run.

It's cheaper, faster, and bonus has better carbon footprint than any cloud solution out there.
If it where me, trying to create an alternative to github codespaces and likes, i would not try to go on their market. It's already tiny. And would try to disrupt that and make a solution that works on the desktops and focus on making this product able to communicate with other instances... Like you know, decentralized communication. This i would buy...