What do you like best about the product?

* Onboarding people is a matter of granting them access to gitlab repos, as soon as they have that, they can start coding. No need to deal with Windows laptops where you need admin for everything :D
* One unexpected benefit was that the environments are not only reproducible, they're also isolated: you can work on 2 branches at the same time by spinning up 2 gitpod workspaces.
* Prebuilds ease the pain of waiting for workspace boot.
* We could shut down our previous notebook solution thanks to gitpod using a vscode notebook plugin.

What do you dislike about the product?

The web IDE is close, but not quite the same as regular desktop experience, for example copy pasting shortcuts don't seem to work and of course there's some workspace boot time.

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

Onboarding users, reproducible environments (config in the repo itself). It benefits me personally because as a platform engineer, I have to spend less time configuring users' environments. Just click the gitpod button and code away.