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I was interested in trying it out for doing pair programming. Didn't get so far before I gave up though.

* Login with Github, trying to import project, didn't work.

* Setup demo application, trying to find how to try it out.

* After looking around ~5 minutes, found the "open web server url" link

* "An error has occurred: {"code":"ECONNREFUSED","errno":"ECONNREFUSED","syscall":"connect"}" as response when using the url

* Trying to open up terminal to debug, terminal loading never ends

* Open up logs console thing, blank file.

* Closed tab and gave up

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* Login with Github, trying to import project, didn't work. -> Is it a public or private project ? Can you give me the github url ?

* "An error has occurred: {"code":"ECONNREFUSED","errno":"ECONNREFUSED","syscall":"connect"}" as response when using the url -> The "open web server url" link open the port 5000 of your VM, you need to run something on this port before accessing it.

* Trying to open up terminal to debug, terminal loading never ends -> It seems there is an issue connecting you browser using websocket.

* Github, public and private. https://github.com/victorbjelkholm/angularblog is one public I tried.

* Aha, shouldn't be impossible to add a better error message or a hint that you actually need to start the software? Starting a new application, it's not clear that nothing is done for you. For example, when starting the NodeJS template, it would be cool if it ran npm install and node web.js or something like that so the setup would to be.

* Websockets shouldn't be a problem, running Chrome Canary and Firefox Aurora.

This looks very similar to Koding what I can see. Could you tell me of any differences you know about between this and Koding?

* Ok thank you, I'll look into this issue.

* Thank you for the feedback, we need to improve this by adding an "auto-execution" system (in a way like Heroku) which detect the project type and run it (install package.json dependencies for node, requirements.txt for python, ... and start the application).

* Ok, it's probably an issue on our side.

* We are focus on simplicity and trying to not just bring the local IDE on your browser, but really add innovation that can only come from a cloud IDE : realtime collaboration, ... We are building FriendCode as a collaborative workspace editor in the cloud : each projects is a GIT repository and each branches is a workspace. Koding is more like a local IDE in the cloud : each user has its own VM and do whatever he wants inside, FriendCode gives a clear separation between projects : each projects has its own environment.

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