Coder Community Edition

What do you like best about the product?

The AI is very helpful for coding. It’s easy to use, and it gives useful tips when you’re stuck, which makes it a great support while you work.

What do you dislike about the product?

I don’t have many complaints about Coder. It’s pretty straightforward to use, and I could look things up whenever I got stuck.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Easy ay to integrate my alerts into tools. Support was easy to use for my use cases.

What do you like best about the product?

I find Coder's cloud coding feature extremely useful. It's really simple to set up and share, which makes it easy to onboard new teammates quickly. I appreciate that I don't have to spend time setting it up for new hires, which is a big time-saver for our team.

What do you dislike about the product?

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What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use Coder for coding on the cloud. It solves the problem of easily sharing cloud environments with teams. The setup is really simple, and it offers quick onboarding for teammates, so we don't have to spend time setting it up for new hires.

What do you like best about the product?

The really cool thing about coder (to me) is how quickly the workspace spins up. You just click and it is right there with a full configuration environment. No waiting for dependencies to be downloaded. It’s almost as if my local machine isn’t capable of breaking today. Also our non-technical folks can easily manage workspaces and templates using the dashboards provided by coder.

What do you dislike about the product?

Multi-org configurations will take some time to figure out and while it’s certainly possible to do these things, they aren’t beginner friendly. Pricing is reasonable until additional users are added or you increase your compute load and then it seems like a whole different amount of money at the end of each month. In addition to having an unpredictable cost associated with coder, the dashboard becomes somewhat clumsy when attempting to manage multiple workspace templates simultaneously. It doesn’t break down however; it’s simply less than intuitive.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Coder essentially eliminated two major pain points in my team. We were spending way too much time trying to resolve “it works on my machine” issues. With coder we’ve been able to eliminate both of those completely. New developers are now able to get up and running in minutes rather than days. Furthermore, since all development environments are stored centrally on coder, we’ve removed source code from local laptops thereby satisfying our security teams requirements. Not sexy, but that is exactly where the value lies.

What do you like best about the product?

I use Coder to build 'golden' environments using Docker images for our backend engineering developers. The terraform native approach is the killer feature. I appreciate that Coder is open source with Apache 2.0 and self-hosted, allowing it to run on infrastructure we control. The IDE agnostic angle is nice too. Onboarding new developers has sped up dramatically, dropping from days to minutes, and it eliminates issues like 'my local setup is broken.' Coder offers consistent CI/CD parity and provides cloud compute on demand. I really enjoy the tight integration with Git, the Kubernetes-native approach, and the ability to integrate tools with HashiCorp Vault. Using pre-built images allows our CI to build development images with all dependencies.

What do you dislike about the product?

Stateful workflows struggle with Coder as Coder environments are ephemeral by design. As everything runs remotely, bad internet could lead to a bad experience. Costs can be surprising if not managed properly, and adoption can be harder for some developers. The quick start setup is fairly easy, but using it at platform level is moderately difficult, as you need to create workspace templates using Docker images, and bad images could result in slow experiences. Running setup on Kubernetes, especially AWS EKS, can also be a bit tricky. The most difficult part is setting up networking, for example, trying to access private APIs inside the VPC.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use Coder to create consistent developer environments quickly, reducing onboarding from days to minutes and solving local setup issues. It provides on-demand cloud compute and avoids 'works on my machine' problems by keeping environments consistent and off-laptops.

What do you like best about the product?

I like how Coder helps me manage my development environments. The standout feature for me is the ability to run and code in isolated environments that I can collaborate on. It solves the problem of providing the same unique environment from different devices, which I can quickly access by just connecting to the internet. Using templates to automate the infrastructure process is a huge time saver. I appreciate its simple UI, which doesn’t take much time to figure out where everything is, unlike more complicated interfaces like Google GCP. The integration with any infrastructure, especially my own on-premise servers, is another aspect I like, as it means I am not locked into AWS, GCP, or similar services. Instead, I can deploy Coder on any environment, including private servers and clouds, which is essential for me. Setting up Coder was also quite easy, especially hosting everything in Docker.

What do you dislike about the product?

One thing I say it could improve is better documentation. I would love to see an AI chat bot inside the Coder UI that could help me to automate environments or setting even further.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use Coder to manage development environments, allowing access to the same environment from different devices. It automates infrastructure with templates, saving time. It also integrates with any infrastructure, including private servers, and has a simple UI that saves time finding tasks.