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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.
Helpful AI Coding Support That’s Easy to Use
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.
Eliminates “Works on My Machine” with Secure, Self-Hosted Remote Dev Environments
What do you like best about the product?
Coder’s remote development environments eliminate “works on my machine” issues entirely. Template-based workspace provisioning through Terraform gives platform teams strong control over the developer experience, and the self-hosted model is a major plus for teams with security or data residency requirements. It also fits naturally into a GitOps workflow: if your team already lives in Kubernetes and Terraform, Coder feels right at home.
What do you dislike about the product?
The initial setup and template authoring can feel complex, and it really assumes a strong Terraform and Kubernetes background, which may be a barrier for smaller teams. The documentation for more advanced workspace configurations still has some gaps, and when a workspace build fails, debugging it can be time-consuming and frustrating. A more guided onboarding experience would go a long way toward making the platform easier to adopt.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Coder addresses the problem of inconsistent local development environments. By using standardized, template-driven remote workspaces, every developer can start with the same environment each time, which helps eliminate setup drift and reduces onboarding friction. For platform teams, it also centralizes the management of developer tooling without having to touch or maintain individual machines.
Secure and Flexible, But Setup Needs Improvement
What do you like best about the product?
I really love Coder's workspace feature which helps safeguard our source code and ensures nothing leaks to the public. I appreciate that Coder is cloud agnostic and vendor agnostic, allowing us to host it on any cloud and scale based on developer usage, saving costs on expensive developer laptops. It's also cool that Coder provides AI features, ensuring they run within the space so we don't have to worry about the ambiguity of AI beyond the developer environment.
What do you dislike about the product?
One thing is Coder deployment is a little bit complex. Especially the provisional control pane on different setups and VPC. So we feel like it's the same for Azure and Google Cloud. So that is kind of overwhelming because of the way developers are staying in the VPN, so we have to set up a VPN tunnel so that developers can access the Coder environment or workspace. It's a little complex at the moment, but we try to solve it. It would be nice if the infrastructure deployment is a little bit better. Also, it has a bit of a learning curve, and we had to use the open-source version for provisioning workspaces on setting up things. It was a little bit complex in the initial setup.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Coder to safeguard our source code within our cloud, ensuring nothing leaks publicly and managing secrets securely without exposing them to developer laptops.
Seamless Integration, Quick Setup
What do you like best about the product?
I like Coder's integration with other tools and the nice UIs. It's also great that the setup is simple and quick, taking only about five minutes. The agents feature is good; it gets my job done effectively with responsive results.
What do you dislike about the product?
I find long running tasks with system native commands sometimes problematic. Coder also struggles with understanding whether I'm on Mac or Windows when I'm trying to use Docker on my WSL with certain commands.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Coder for personal projects inspired by my job, particularly for proof of concept tasks. The integration is nice with good UIs, and the agents get my job done effectively.
A powerful solution for consistent and scalable cloud development environments
What do you like best about the product?
Coder provides a powerful cloud development environment that centralizes all dev work in one place. The remote workspace feature eliminates local setup issues, improves team consistency, and lets developers work from anywhere without performance trade-offs.
What do you dislike about the product?
The initial setup and configuration can be complex, especially for teams new to cloud development environments
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It eliminates lengthy local setup times, reduces environment-related bugs
Effortless Collaboration and Setup
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.
Highly Replicable Environments with Coder’s Infrastructure as Code
What do you like best about the product?
I love that Coder environments are defined as code. Hence, making environments highly replicable.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not sure. It's a pretty good product. Perhaps the docs could be better and more LLM friendly
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It enables my entire team to have similar development environments, which wasn't always the case and this would sometimes cause things to break in CI
Versatile and Affordable for Small Teams
What do you like best about the product?
I like that Coder is self-hostable and open-source, which is important for our small bootstrapped team. I also find the 'Workspace as Code' feature really useful because it makes it easy to share with my team and have reproducible workspaces. Plus, it works with any IDE, which is great. It was also easy to get started with existing templates, and the integration with agent CLI tools like Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode works well without any issues.
What do you dislike about the product?
The premium plan is not affordable for a small team like us with per seat pricing and annual plans. I would like to see some middle plans for small teams which are more affordable.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Coder to create sandboxed development environments, which lets us work with agents and share a consistent setup across our small team, enhancing our development workflow.
Efficient Guidance for Frontend Development
What do you like best about the product?
I have used Coder to write the front-end application in React, and it provided me the steps and code, which was so helpful to launch. The way it guides us is particularly helpful for learning, showing me what needs to be imported to write the code efficiently.
What do you dislike about the product?
Might be helpful if you provide the explanation.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Coder for writing front end applications in React. It provides helpful steps and code, improving my coding efficiency and aiding my learning process.
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