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Simplifies Web Development, but Needs More Features
What do you like best about the product?
I appreciate Coder for its ability to enhance logical thinking and problem-solving skills by creating website pages from content documents and adding interlinks. I found the initial setup to be easy.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't like the lack of features. It requires internet.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I find Coder enhances user experience and performance. It creates web pages and interlinks from content documents, making development simpler.
Consistent Cloud Envs, Tough Initial Setup
What do you like best about the product?
I use Coder to host my development environment in the cloud, which keeps my workspace consistent and off my local machine—perfect for running network automation and testing scripts without cluttering my laptop with dependencies. Coder solves the 'it works on my machine' mess and prevents my laptop from sounding like a jet engine during heavy automation. I love the speed and isolation that allows me to spin up fresh high-performance environments in seconds. The isolation is huge because it provides a sandbox completely separate from my laptop, letting me test aggressive automation scripts or install weird dependencies without worrying about polluting my daily driver. The speed is great because it doesn't make me lose momentum; if I mess up a configuration or a test environment, I don't have to spend an hour fixing it—I just kill the workspace and spin up a fresh one in seconds. I also use VS Code with the Coder extension, and once it's running, it's a game changer for keeping environments consistent and isolated, especially for heavy automation work.
What do you dislike about the product?
Just the initial setup is a bit of a hurdle since you really need to know Terraform to get the templates right. The biggest hurdle is definitely the Terraform learning curve. If you aren't already an IaC expert, building custom templates from scratch is a massive time sink. It honestly wasn't that easy. If you don't already know Terraform, the learning curve for building templates is pretty steep.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Coder to host my development env in the cloud, which keeps my workspace consistent and uncluttered. It solves the 'it works on my machine' mess, allows for sandbox isolation for testing, and provides speed in spinning up environments.
User-Friendly GUI, Easy Setup
What do you like best about the product?
I like Coder's GUI because it's very easy to use and it improves my work. The initial setup of Coder is also very easy.
What do you dislike about the product?
none
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I find the GUI in Coder very easy to use, which improves my work.
Seamless Dev Environments with Powerful Metrics
What do you like best about the product?
I love that Coder is a very well-thought-out product with easy-to-use integrations. The out-of-the-box IDE support is fantastic, allowing us to enable common IDEs just by enabling a resource in a Terraform script or template. I really appreciate the admin visibility it offers, showing us reliability metrics and controls over our development environments. It's seamless control and ability to track and maintain dev environments effectively is a big plus. The initial setup was straightforward, making it an even more appealing choice for our team.
What do you dislike about the product?
Stop functionality when it works is fine and awesome. But sometimes it just doesn't work. If there could be more visibility on activity signals which Coder uses to determine the inactivity and eventually stop the workspace, it would be good. Also, there is stop and delete. If we could have a suspend state as well, which could preserve the memory state as well with the disk, like GCP VM suspend.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Coder provides consistent, reproducible, and reliable environments, unlocking multitasking and improving dev environment maintenance with metrics-driven insights.
Secure, Scalable, and Hassle‑Free Development Environments
What do you like best about the product?
Coder makes development faster and more secure by providing consistent, browser‑based environments that eliminate setup hassles and improve team collaboration
What do you dislike about the product?
to be honest nothing, I love it! it has increased productivity for our teams across the board!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Coder solves the pain of inconsistent local setups and slow onboarding by providing secure, standardized cloud‑based environments. This reduces downtime, eliminates ‘works on my machine’ issues, and lets my team focus on delivery instead of configuration, ultimately improving productivity and governance.
Effortless Development Across Devices
What do you like best about the product?
I use Coder for development on my personal projects. It's great because I can work anytime and on any device with just one click, which saves me the time I used to spend setting up projects on new laptops. The web editor is very helpful, especially when using tablets or Chromebooks. It's also easy to run heavy projects on any device. The installation of Coder is easy, though it could be even more convenient if PostgreSQL came with the package. Overall, I'm comfortable using Coder and even gave it a 9 out of 10 in terms of recommending it to others.
What do you dislike about the product?
I have been using some third-party tools like Scaletails for remote access, and it would be more helpful if Coder had a built-in option to expose endpoints. Also, sometimes I tried using Coder with VSCode desktop, and it didn't work properly for me. While the installation of Coder is easy, it would be much easier if PostgreSQL came packaged with it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Coder to work on any device at any time with one click, saving setup time. The web editor is helpful on tablets or Chromebooks, and I can run heavy projects on any device.
Secure, Consistent Environments Made Easy
What do you like best about the product?
I like that my development environment works consistently no matter where I log in from. I use Coder to manage reproducible dev environments on our infrastructure, which is useful for maintaining security, controlling access, and ensuring consistency for all developers. It helps solve security and access control issues by keeping code and development environments in a centralized infrastructure instead of on local machines. I use Coder alongside tools like Git and Docker as part of my development workflow, and moving to Coder from local setups definitely made onboarding and collaboration easier. The initial setup was quite easy—I faced some hiccups but was able to look at the docs and troubleshoot myself.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is a bit of a learning curve at first, especially when setting up templates, but it gets easier with use. I also faced some hiccups during the initial setup but was able to troubleshoot using the documentation.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Coder to manage reproducible dev environments, ensuring security, access control, and consistency. It centralizes code and environments, solving security and access issues, and allows my development environment to work consistently from anywhere.
Reliable Onboarding with Coder, Needs Deployment Flexibility
What do you like best about the product?
I use Coder for faster developer onboarding and support in the process. I like that the product is reliable and stable. It's a good tool that's been working well so far.
What do you dislike about the product?
I think Coder should have the feature to deploy in on-prem, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, and cloud solutions. I haven't fully worked on it within a POC model yet, so there might be room for improvement. It could be more cost-effective and faster for onboarding, eliminating the need to work on different machines.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Coder makes developer onboarding faster and helps support the process. It eliminates work on machines, making it cost-effective.
Effortless Dev Environments, Some Setup Challenges
What do you like best about the product?
I really like how Coder lets me easily spin up multiple development environments, which usually would be impossible on a single box. This flexibility is fantastic because I can have separate AI agents working in each environment on different tasks. Another great feature is the ability to easily share links to my development environments with the team, which is incredibly convenient.
What do you dislike about the product?
VSCode sometimes disconnects and takes time to reconnect. Setting up Coder with Terraform is tricky, particularly handling variables like environment or template variables. I've had a lot of trouble ensuring the template had the right value at the right lifecycle. The initial setup was hard; it was easy to get a trivial example up, but much harder to get it working with lots of downstream dependencies.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I can easily spin up multiple development environments with Coder, allowing AI agents to work concurrently on different tasks. It's typically impossible to have two dev environments on a single machine, but Coder lets me spin up as many as I like.
Seamless Collaboration and Quick Onboarding with Coder
What do you like best about the product?
I really appreciate Coder's seamless integration with Visual Studio Code. It's definitely a benefit for me because it makes setup feel like I have a fully configured local environment with VMs and VPNs, without initially having to setup a full suite of differing technology just to get started initially. The use of Coder to lower the barrier to entry for new joiners. From just one login and one click, I can be in Visual Studio Code making code changes in the first few minutes. This is particularly valuable for getting new joiners up and running fast, which I find really valuable.
What do you dislike about the product?
I have not encountered any direct issues with coder - I have not been super involved with the infrastructure side of coder however. More and end user.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Coder helps us manage version and environment dependencies, ensuring a seamless experience for developers and new joiners. It facilitates easy debugging, collaborative work, and pair programming, especially across remote locations.
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