alt Hacker NewsWhere's the real value for devs in something like this? Hasn't everyone already built this for themselves in the past 2 years? I'm not trying to sound cheeky or poo poo the product, just surprised if this is a thing. I can never read what's useful by gut anymore, I guess.
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Sandboxes with the right persistence and http routing make excellent dev servers. I have about a million dev servers I just use from whatever computer / phone I happen to be using.
It's really useful to just turn a computer on, use a disk, and then plop its url in the browser.
I currently do one computer per project. I don't even put them in git anymore. I have an MDM server running to manage my kids' phones, a "help me reply to all the people" computer that reads everything I'm supposed to read, a dumb game I play with my son, a family todo list no one uses but me, etc, etc.
Immediate computers have made side projects a lot more fun again. And the nice thing is, they cost nothing when I forget about them.
> Hasn't everyone already built this for themselves in the past 2 years?
The short answer is no. And more so, I think that "Everyone I know in my milieu already built this for themselves, but the wider industry isn't talking about it" is actually an excellent idea generator for a new product.
Has everyone really built their own microVMs? I don’t think so.
> Hasn't everyone already built this for themselves in the past 2 years?
Even if this was true, "everyone building X independently" is evidence that one company should definitely build X and sell it to everyone