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What value does this add to a local IDE? With my local IDE I can still program when the internet (or any one hop between my pc and your servers) goes down.

A friend invited me to his workspace and all I got was an email containing the following: > Code with me on https://friendco.de

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This is not the place for debating the value of cloud IDEs - they're out there, whether this one, cloud9, koding, or codeanywhere. This is the place to provide feedback on this particular product within that category. Let's not reinforce the stereotype of HN commenters if possible.

This is exactly the place to debate the value of a product we're being shown. That feedback is far more valuable than what the OP will get if we dismiss the business model as taboo. There are negative ramifications to using online-only software, that's not the same as a negative comment.

As a developer who also programs as a hobby, I dislike having to manually download, install, and configure each framework/platform I want to experiment with. With cloud IDEs like Cloud9, everything is already configured for me and just works.

For my side projects I find this workflow particularly awesome: pull project from GitHub, program in a C9 workspace, and push to Heroku when ready. My development environment is not limited to a physical workstation, and no time is wasted hassling over configuration issues.

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