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Secure and User-Friendly with Room for Pricing Improvement
What do you like best about the product?
I like using Coder for its secure nature when working on airgapped coding for my startup, Uplaud AI. It's really helpful in building a lot of AI agents securely. I also appreciate the ease of use. Coder helps me set policies for my employees, and I use it to govern them by setting different levels of access for different developers. It's beneficial when some engineers don't need access to sensitive data, as this can be cordoned off. The initial setup was pretty seamless, which was a plus.
What do you dislike about the product?
Pricing could be improved, it does get expensive.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Coder for secure coding at my startup and to set different access levels for developers, which helps govern and manage sensitive data. Its ease of use and security features make it valuable.
Versatile Workspace Deployment with Speed and Security
What do you like best about the product?
I like that a workspace in Coder can be anything. I can provision it in a k8s pod, on an AWS EC2 instance, or any cloud VM. We can provision it on a powerful bare metal machine, and it will speed up compile time tremendously. I also appreciate how it speeds up the inner dev loop. Developers can work on low-end machines like 8GB RAM and 256GB SSD Macs, but they have a system that's 100 GB with 64 cores to develop. Compiling large codebases is really fast, which helps devs stay focused and productive. The tool standardizes workspaces so that everyone uses the same dependencies, speeding up onboarding by allowing devs to access a fully configured cloud development environment. We also think it improves security. Overall, Coder is a great tool that makes us more productive.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's not as plug and play as their competitors like GitPod or GitHub Codespaces. Also, I'm responsible for keeping the Coder control pane updated.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Coder to standardize workspaces with consistent dependencies, speed up onboarding, and enhance security. It speeds up the inner dev loop with powerful provisioning, making compile times faster and keeping developers productive.
Needs Improvement in User Experience
What do you like best about the product?
I like that Coder generally gets things mostly right. The initial setup was easy for me.
What do you dislike about the product?
It gives an attitude and the tone is snobby or a jerk. It's quick to shift the blame to the user, fail to remember the conversation and utilize memory especially in long tail conversions of revisions. It over achieves by doing things unnecessary without permission causing a lot of time of revising code instead of clarifying assumptions and doing proper change code review to ensure that the code doesn't change wildly from expectations.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Coder helps me with writing tedious Terraform code with specific configurations, which aren't in typical programming languages.
Effortless Cloud Development with Strong Security
What do you like best about the product?
I am using Coder for developing things, and I love that you can start coding in minutes. Coder provides cloud infrastructure that helps us develop without installing everything on our local machine. Its strong security is another aspect I appreciate, and it's great for teamwork. Initial setup is very easy and hardly takes 5 minutes, and there are a lot of things we can do using Coder.
What do you dislike about the product?
I am not really satisfied with the cost transparency of Coder, and I feel the UI/UX could be more polished.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Coder provides cloud infrastructure, so I don't need to install everything locally. I can start coding in minutes, it has strong security, is great for teamwork, and offers a lot of functionalities.
Effortless Cloud Dev with Coder Despite Initial Setup Hurdles
What do you like best about the product?
I like that you can just jump in and it's ready to go with Coder. You don't have to set everything up locally, which makes it easier to jump into projects on any machine.
What do you dislike about the product?
Initial setup and configuration can take a bit of time. It's definitely a learning curve. A little bit more difficult than I expected it to be.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Coder to simplify cloud development environments, making it easier to jump into projects without setting everything up locally. It's convenient that I can just jump in and start working immediately, though the initial setup was a bit tricky and there's a learning curve.
Effortless Dev Environment Setup, Needs Better IDE Integration
What do you like best about the product?
I like that the UI of Coder is very simple. There are no hard-to-figure-out actions or hidden knobs that I need to work out. I can just click and use, which is so important for getting up to speed immediately. The first time I used Coder, I was able to click the right buttons and get set up right away with no hiccups at all. Compared to other products, especially those that are AI coded with too many confusing features that aren't needed, Coder stands out in its simplicity and ease of use. The initial setup was extremely simple too, with no complaints at all.
What do you dislike about the product?
I think integration with more IDEs would be nicer. I'm not sure if there is a command to quickly set up, SSH a terminal. Maybe there is, maybe there isn't. I usually use JetBrains products as my main IDE, not Cursor or Visual Studio Code. The last time I used Coder, it didn't have native support in these environments.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Coder to quickly spin up dev environments and self-contain changes. It makes it easier to manage agents via SSH compared to multiple Git work trees locally, which helps with large repositories.
Empowers Founders with Quick Prototyping
What do you like best about the product?
I use Coder for day-to-day development. As a founder, it helps me bridge the gap instead of waiting for engineering resources. I can quickly prototype and automate workflow in real time. What I love most is the leverage it gives me. I find code generation and quick iteration really valuable. The initial setup was easy.
What do you dislike about the product?
deeper context would make it more reliable
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As a founder, Coder helps me bridge the gap by allowing quick prototyping and real-time workflow automation without waiting for engineering resources.
Effortless Management Across IDEs, Perfect for Small Teams
What do you like best about the product?
I like that Coder can be used with multiple IDEs, which is really helpful because different team members use different IDEs. I can manage agents for all of them with Coder. The initial setup was very easy, and it's been working well for us as our first product trial.
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 to run coding agents and manage multiple runtimes, which simplifies handling different IDEs used by my team members.
Intuitive Setup, Great Compatibility, Needs Better Documentation
What do you like best about the product?
I appreciate that Coder uses good IaC principles and supports open standards. It allows me to use existing tooling and offers support for tools like dev containers and VSCode. The initial setup was quite easy for me.
What do you dislike about the product?
Documentation not great in places. It’s often too general and finding solutions to specific problems is often too difficult.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Coder helps with onboarding and compliance.
Self-Hosted Coder with Smooth Kubernetes Integration and Reproducible Workspaces
What do you like best about the product?
Being able to deploy Coder on our own infrastructure is a real game-changer for our team. We keep full control over our data, workspaces are reproducible thanks to Terraform templates, and the integration with our Kubernetes cluster went smoothly. The web interface is clean and developers adopted remote VS Code quickly. The fact that it's open source also gives us confidence in the product's long-term sustainability.
What do you dislike about the product?
The learning curve for creating and maintaining templates is steep if you're not comfortable with Terraform. The documentation is decent but some edge cases — custom providers, non-standard SSO auth — lack concrete examples. Provisioning logs could also be more readable for quick debugging. Worth noting: features like per-user resource quotas, advanced RBAC, and SCIM group sync are reserved for the Premium (paid) tier, which can be a limiting factor for teams that need those controls but can't justify the cost.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We had a real "works on my machine" problem across the team. Coder allowed us to standardize development environments and onboard new developers in under an hour instead of half a day. Centralizing workspaces server-side also removes friction from VPN connections and underpowered laptops. As a bonus, telemetry can be fully disabled with a single environment variable, which matters a lot for our data privacy requirements.
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