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Secure, Flexible Environments with Room for Improvement
What do you like best about the product?
I appreciate the speed at which I can create ephemeral environments and still use my preferred toolchain. It's easy to choose a template managed by my team, and a new, policy-enforced environment is ready in seconds. Their documentation is clear and makes the initial setup straightforward. I also find Coder's approach more applicable to our use cases compared to other virtual/cloud-based IDEs. I'm excited to see where they take the product in the future.
What do you dislike about the product?
I do wish their new agentic features (Agent Firewall, in particular) were not gated behind a 'Talk to Sales' button. I wish they had more transparent pricing. I also wish they had more of a template marketplace of sorts.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Coder enforces governance and security policies across devices without intrusive monitoring. It speeds up onboarding, reduces software provisioning time, and lowers help ticket volume. I also easily create policy-enforced environments with my preferred toolchain.
I like how well coder works but I wish it wasn't so darn expensive.
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.
Effortless Cloud Development, Minor Tweaks Required
What do you like best about the product?
I really appreciate Coder for cloud-based code development which lets me code from anywhere. It solves the pain of setting up the environment and provides ease of use. Coder helps secure powerful development resources from anywhere and also reduces onboarding time. I like that it helps me spin up development environments quickly without dealing with local setup issues. The consistency across systems is quite useful, like remote access and reusable templates. The ease of it working across environments, ability to manage environments, and smooth performance is great.
What do you dislike about the product?
I would say the troubleshooting guide, resource usage view, and workspace performance could be improved. It would be helpful to have context-aware error messages and a built-in diagnostic tool. Seeing clear real-time metrics on workspace and user level, such as CPU, memory, and disk, would be great. Also, more transparency into what's affecting performance would be beneficial. Configuring templates, infrastructure, and access control also took some time.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Coder for cloud-based code development, allowing me to code from anywhere. It solves the pain of setting up the environment, provides ease of use, secures powerful development resources from anywhere, and reduces onboarding time.
Revolutionized Development Onboarding with Coder
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.
Seamless Environment Management, Highly Recommends
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.
Versatile, Bug-Trapping Solution for Individuals
What do you like best about the product?
I love that Coder is versatile, as it allows me to keep track of mistakes and helps me correct them easily. I also found the initial setup to be very easy.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Coder to tackle the tedious parts of coding, like finding bugs and brainstorming. It helps keep track of mistakes and corrects them efficiently.
Revolutionized Our Development Environment Management
What do you like best about the product?
I really like the flexibility with workspace templates in Coder, as it allows us to define templates in Terraform and ensure every developer gets an identical, reproducible environment. The VS Code browser integration is very polished, letting developers work from any machine, even a Chromebook or iPad, without losing functionality. The port forwarding feature is a big advantage, as it allows running a local dev server inside the workspace and instantly previewing it in the browser without any manual tunneling setup. Extension syncing works well, and the terminal feels native. Coder completely removes the need to manage VPNs for developers accessing internal resources. I also find Coder's documentation to be quite thorough, and there’s a solid community on Discord. Setup is well-documented, ensuring that a small team with Kubernetes experience can be fully up and running within a week.
What do you dislike about the product?
The initial learning curve for writing and maintaining Terraform templates can be steep, especially for engineers who aren't familiar with infrastructure-as-code. The admin dashboard is functional but could use some UX polish — things like bulk workspace management and usage analytics feel a bit underdeveloped compared to the core functionality. Occasionally workspace startup times can be slow depending on cloud provider and region.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Coder solves environment inconsistency and speeds up onboarding by allowing new hires to start coding within an hour. It ensures security, as the source code stays within our infrastructure.
Accelerates Development with Ease
What do you like best about the product?
I use Coder to accelerate the delivery of development and workshop environments, which helps me with a standardized environment for developers and reduces onboarding time. I like the VSCode-like IDE, allowing me to use my preferred extensions, which helps me accelerate my development. Setting up Coder was very easy.
What do you dislike about the product?
I never tried, but sometimes we need some files from my local computer, have the ability to share files helps a lot
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Coder to accelerate the delivery of development environments and workshops. It provides a standardized environment for developers, reducing onboarding time. The VSCode-like IDE lets me use my preferred extensions, which accelerates my development.
Convenient Terminal & Server Launch, but Needs Clearer Guidance for Non-Engineers
What do you like best about the product?
I like that launching terminal and the development server are at the same location that I can click and open.
What do you dislike about the product?
For someone who has no engineering background, coder didn't really help me better understand the background and relationship between terminal and server. Instead of pushing the code to staging server, I was directly pushing to production server.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Coder solves the need for me to start localhost through a terminal. Save me some time, but its questionable how much more value it truly brings for me.
Powerful Feature Set for Agentic Development
What do you like best about the product?
Feature sets that allow me to do agentic development
What do you dislike about the product?
Relatively heavy infrastructure and somewhat hard to build
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Standard Terraform-based workflows that allow me to build efficiently
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