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I know what I'm going to use it for.

I work on an open source project and I've just submitted a patch. Tomorrow, I'm travelling to go spend a week with my parents, away from home. I don't plan on taking my laptop with me, but I want to follow up on my patch. Reviews are probably going to ask for minor changes.

Basically, I can see myself using something like this when I'm on the move. I'm not a big fan of dragging my laptop with me everywhere I go...

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So how is this different from either having a copy of your git repository on your phone (which you can mount on your parent's computer), or accessing your own home server remotely (or an EC2 micro/free tier server instance)?

It's different from having a repo on your phone because you don't have to install git to use it.

It's different from your own remote server because you don't need to set one up.

I'm confused. If you don't have your laptop with you, how are you going to access Koding?

Via a web browser on a different computer.

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