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I like these kind of projects/efforts and it looks great, but this thing is quite buggy. And some parts, like the sign up process might not even be buggy but just bad workflow.

And it's too expensive IMHO. You need to make money, but for what it offers now, at least to me, it's not worth it.

Other than that, hopefully you'll improve it and make it a real online IDE.




We just launched, and we are trying to squash every bug we run into. Could you be more specific about the 'buggy' part you mention? Some particulars about it would really help us to make it better, we would really appreciate it!


This is probably more usability than a bug, but when I clicked from HN to the site, I clicked on login without checking the rest of the screen, as usually the login screen contains some link to register. These days i'm used to, when I see a 'sign in with xxx' (oAuth) that login / register do the same thing, even if you don't have an account.

To me it felt a bit unstable because of this. Although it's a matter of reading everything on the screen, I would be surprised if anyone actually does that, so probably better to change the flow in that case.

Anyway, after that I entered a Github url (naive as I am) which is private, but in my Github account with which I'm signed up to Cloud9IDE. I got a not so user friendly popup saying an error occured, with a key and some JSON included.

So I concluded I cannot use private repositories (?) and clicked on the + to add a new project, typed in Test and clicked create. I clicked open source in the follow up dialog and no extra users. After clicking next it suddenly said 'Forking, this could take a few seconds'. I thought; what is it forking? This is an empty project. Then another popup with about the same error as before. It appeared that even though I created a fresh, empty project, it took my GIThub URL and tried to use that! So instead of my 'Test' empty project, it now showed the name of my private project from Github, with no files in it.

Any comments on the pricing btw? EDIT: nevermind, answered while I was typing this.




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