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&quot;The only multi-platform cloud editor&quot; except for all of the other ones.<p><a href="https://www.nitrous.io/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nitrous.io&#x2F;</a> <a href="http://codev.it/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;codev.it&#x2F;</a> <a href="https://codio.com/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;codio.com&#x2F;</a> etc, etc

I realise that it&#x27;s become common to trust cloud services with your IP, but as expensive and onerous (and often impossible) it would be to prove that someone ripped off your code, it seems foolish to develop anything proprietary or patentable on a platform like this one, regardless of what legalese they put in their TOS.<p>It would be far more sensible for Codeanywhere to offer &#x2F; license a VM or Docker appliance that you could host on your own server, that you could monitor its network traffic, and so on. This way you could have some sense of security.<p>When a chunk of source code can ultimately be licensed for millions of dollars, you probably want to have a bit more protection for your IP. Not being so much paranoid as practical.

Being cloud based is this &quot;Code Anywhere&quot;, or &quot;Code anywhere where you have Internet access&quot;? The latter, in my case, would be &quot;Code in less places than you could with your laptop and standard offline dev tools&quot;.

Very nitpicky, but part of the landing page copy says:<p>&gt; <i>NOW AVAILABLE ON ALL PLATFORMS</i><p>Now, I guess readers are willing to forgive Symbian and AmigaOS not being in the list the follows, but if you say &quot;all platforms&quot; you have to <i>at least</i> include Windows Phone.<p>My issue isn&#x27;t really with OS support however, and it&#x27;s perfectly OK to skip not-very-popular platforms. But if you put at least one blatant lie on the front page, you don&#x27;t give me confidence that it&#x27;s the only one.

All these cloud IDEs seem to be popping up everywhere, but I just don&#x27;t see the value in them. I use Vim as my editor so I can use everything over SSH anyways, so I just use Vagrant or SSH back home if I&#x27;m working on my Chromebook.

The colors look really nice, but I suspect my vim(1) can do it cheaper. What&#x27;s it with the obsession to use the slow and heavyweight Browser+JS when you can do it lightweight &amp; efficiently?

First, congrat at releasing your project&#x2F;product.<p>But I want to be a critic, like always. There are at least a dozen of &quot;code anywhere&quot; solution out there and most don&#x27;t solve the core problem which is that we can either write code or run code with very very limited privilege.<p>As both a Github and a Bitbucket user, I can code anywhere I want as long as there is an Internet access. I can edit my files right on the page, or just fire up a new gist on gist.github.com to write a short snippet. I use jsbeautifier.com to make my JS code &quot;prettier&quot; if my code is getting messy. If I have a modern version of Firefox I can even write my Javascript in a scratch pad.<p>The issue is again I don&#x27;t have an environment to run code and use the tools I want to use. I don&#x27;t mean that this is an easy problem to solve as everyone has their own special setup (e.g. different dot files, tab vs space, etc) and minus security handling and hardening. But that is the hard problem, and the real problem worth digging.

I&#x27;m a long time cloud9 user and we actually use ace editor in a couple of our own projects. I logged on to check out your diff feature as I thought it was quite neat, but all I got was a bunch of broken menus and misaligned panels.<p>When I say logged in, I mean that this was the first thing I saw after doing the one-click signup via my google account. I&#x27;d advise you to fix your product before advertising it, and let us know so I can have another look.<p><a href="http://i.imgur.com/ZX9w3rD.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;ZX9w3rD.png</a><p>Google Chrome for Linux 36.0.1985.125<p>EDIT: Works fine after a couple of refreshes. I didn&#x27;t know codemirror had that diff mode. Nice.

You advertise bitbucket support, but as far as I can find, that&#x27;s only as a generic git provider using a DevBox only via your web interface. You set the expectation that it would be possible to get the iOS app, set up an account, attach to a repo, write code, and commit.<p>This does not deliver.<p>If this is possible, it isn&#x27;t clear at all and I couldn&#x27;t find documentation on it. If this is some sort of premium feature, that&#x27;s not clear either. Please get your marketing copy in line with the platform&#x27;s actual capabilities.

Not affiliated with this but the product seems to work as advertised. Lets me work on my sites during my lunch hour at work on any office browser.

This looks pretty damn good!<p>Couple of things:<p>* Have you tried making the tour&#x2F;tutorial a small toast notification, rather than a modal? (I&#x27;m allergic to modals)<p>* Could I have a button to &quot;Create from github project&quot; which would check my project out into a new workspace&#x2F;sandbox&#x2F;devbox?

I just tried this last week while evaluating ide&#x27;s with ipad support, but the bluetooth keyboard support in the app is not very good (e.g. the arrow keys don&#x27;t allow for moving the caret). Any chance you&#x27;re fixing this soon?

Excellent Product. Easy to sign-up and from London it feels and looks as the machine is next to my feet. One suggestion though is may be to include a live chat support to bring some human feel and love :) and differentiate from the competition.<p>Congrats.

Digital Ocean has web-based terminal access to your droplet (in case you have one). Why not use that to code from anywhere?

If two files are opened and named the same (ex: index.html), you should show the directory they are in as well in the tab.

how is this different from cloud9?

I&#x27;d love an OSX-based &#x27;devbox&#x27; so I can write in Swift or Objective-C

I should be able to use the browse functionality if my filesystem is FTP.

Why would I trust you with my codebase?

Brilliant webapp

seems cool, but what are devboxes?

This is a quite great produce, the best for coding on the go.