Comment by nithayakumar | Hacker News Reader

Comment by nithayakumar | Hacker News Reader

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Nish from Nimbus here.

Personally, I dont think this is going to be a space where one company "wins the market". Whats best for developers is having flexibility and choosing the right tool for what their building and their team. So I'm hoping that these products become/stay more open and let people pick them up and drop them as needed.

On the differentiation front.. there's some common differentiation points, but to your point there's going to be someone doing things like you when theres more and more competitors.

Also - brilliant job with Codenvy! You're one of the pioneers in the field. When we started Nimbus we did our research (even talking to the folks at Koding, NitrousIDE, etc)

> Whats best for developers is having flexibility and choosing the right tool for what their building and their team.

One of the things that's annoyed me about codespaces and gitpods is that they really require/assume the whole team will use that one product. Codespaces does that through their billing and permissions, and gitpods does it via their PR based features etc. Is this something Nimbus is going to try and avoid? What's best for the majority isn't always best for the individual, and that's why we have so many different IDE's. Perhaps my personal workflow is served better by Nimbus and my colleagues is better suited for codespaces.

With some tools, like bug trackers, it makes sense to pick one tool for everyone of course. What do you think about remote dev environments?

I think more people on remote environments does lead to better overall experience. But the incremental benefit for each additional team member drops until everyone is working on the cloud - because then you can do some cool things or stop doing some dull things.

That said, we avoid doing anything that forces an entire team to move to our cloud environments. That's an easy way to piss people off and build a crappy product. Hopefully this approach doesnt burn us.

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