Hey HN,<p>I started building this tool for myself for several reasons:
1. My 2020 M1 MBP with 16Gb of RAM started to become frustratingly slow when I had to run the local development stack
2. Sometimes I needed to switch between my Linux desktop and MBP, and continue the work from where I left it
3. At some point I was traveling and tried to work from a train, where the mobile internet was very unstable and things like `docker compose up` and `npm install` would take a lot of time and retries before successfully finishing<p>First, I researched various options. Most of them felt too cumbersome, and pretty much all of them were requiring a single GitHub repo to start with.<p>Gitpod seemed the most convenient out of all of them, but I quickly started to struggle with its limitations. At least some docker images weren’t starting at all. And after ditching the idea of using JetBrains Gateway for writing code, I couldn’t make my Gitpod instance to not start it every time I needed to do some coding. Got frustrated and unsatisfied, so as an engineer, I decided to just build it myself.<p>I already had something of my own running on digital ocean, and I experimented with automating it via their api, so I went with building something that I could use from my terminal, where I already spend the most of my time, and something that didn’t require a server hosted and running 24/7.<p>Eventually, I traveled to Greece for a month of workation, and this tool has been a life saver for me. I built features, fixed bugs, improved performance of the app I’m working on. All this would’ve been much more difficult and much less productive without this tool.<p>Would love to hear your feedback and thoughts.