I signed up and created a sinatra and java app. Wouldn't usually be one to but a downer on a new product but the whole process was quite buggy.
Great idea though.
Show HN: FriendCode – Reinventing coding with the cloud
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Re: Show HN: FriendCode – Reinventing coding with the cloud
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorry, We don't include java in the current VMs, but it's coming soon.
OK, too bad. Any other limitations to know about? Like I said: looks very promising!
Right now, you can't install anything in the VM using apt-get (because you can't be root), but a solution to this will come soon to let you install anything you need.
Re: Show HN: FriendCode – Reinventing coding with the cloud
#13I 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 ur…
* 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,…
* 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?
Re: Show HN: FriendCode – Reinventing coding with the cloud
#14This looks incredibly slick, but I'm still seeing "FriendCode is setting up your Environment. It may take a few seconds" after about ten minutes of waiting. I clicked in from the large graphic on the home page (using FF 24.0).
Re: Show HN: FriendCode – Reinventing coding with the cloud
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
* 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,…
* 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 t…
* 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.
Re: Show HN: FriendCode – Reinventing coding with the cloud
#16This looks incredibly slick, but I'm still seeing "FriendCode is setting up your Environment. It may take a few seconds" after about ten minutes of waiting. I clicked in from the large graphic on the home page (using FF 24.0).
Thank you, it's possible that there is some issues booting a new VM for your project because of the amount of VMs already booted, we are working on these issues.
Re: Show HN: FriendCode – Reinventing coding with the cloud
#17Seems very similar to Nitrous.IO.
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#18Looks cool, but I haven't been able to make a new workspace so far, everything's just waiting. I assume you've had quite a traffic bump.
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#19Looks cool, but I haven't been able to make a new workspace so far, everything's just waiting. I assume you've had quite a traffic bump.
Yes, really sorry about this...
Re: Show HN: FriendCode – Reinventing coding with the cloud
#20Seems very similar to Nitrous.IO.
We are more focus on bringing simplicity and more collaboration to the developer environment in the cloud, and nitrous is more focus on cloning the local developer environment to the cloud.