* 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?