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I'll add more details about what are the fee and that the author is keeping 80%.

We are taking 20% and you keep 80% of your profit.

Fees are only fees on PayPal payments (not on credit card transactions).

You should do a stack for codebox (https://github.com/FriendCode/codebox)

Hi, I just pushed a fix.

Thanks you for pointing out the font issue. I'll look into that

Yes, each app is run in a new virtual machine.

I just wanted to let you guys know that there are a few issues with the execution system due to the load we got from HN.

We're on it right now.

Happy to hear you like it.

We do integrate with Github and Heroku as of now.

Expect this integration to involve over time and we'll also integrate with other services (Amazon AWS, DotCloud ...)

Thanks, happy to hear you like it.

We don't import your private repositories as of now, only your public ones.

I think you did good to point this out, we'll make it more clear and visible in the future.

We're only six months into our adventure so far and we're in beta, but we're definitely improving.

And your feedback is very helpful. Thanks for that

Right now, we integrate both with GitHub as a "Repository provider" and Heroku as a PaaS.

If you connect your Github account we'll import your GitHub repositories.

And we do have a primitive and slightly awkward way of pushing back to your github repository. That will be improved in the coming days. To make it more obvious and easier.

Thanks for pointing that out. We want to integrate as well as possible with current existing services.

There is no need to reinvent the wheel regarding code hosting and we want to focus on what makes us different.

Hope that answers your question.

Thanks. We know of Koding, we haven't spoke with their team though.

It seems like coding is really focusing on it's social features and wants to become the "facebook for developers".

I can't condemn that, but I think there is more value to be built, by focussing on improving the coding experience and it's simplicity.

We're a two man team, I'm a native english speaker, but taking care of the backend side of things I don't always have the time to perfect the grammar mistakes my co-founder makes.

He's french by the way, and I think he still does a pretty good job :)

Thanks for pointing that out, we'll definitely improve that when things calm down a bit

First of all Cloud9 is a very good solution, they are the initial pioneers in cloud coding, and they built some good technology that we contribute to (and use small parts of).

We really try to focus on simplicity and extensibility.

We're trying a few different approaches, one of them being providing a whole network besides the code editor itself, so people can share plugins, build teams, find freelancers (that kind of stuff).

Cloud9 is very good, we're just about 6 months old and a two man team, so we're exploring things and trying to innovate.

Hope that answers your question.

I believe there are advantages and disadvantages to cloud based solutions, objectively the advantages that we offer are the following:

- Easy setup and update (all you need to do is signup) (good for beginners) - Realtime remote pair programming - You no longer need to setup execution environments on your computer locally.

We're definitely far from perfect. However I do think that there's interesting things to do with cloud based solutions, so that's what we're trying to do.

All feedback, for improvements are welcomed.

No offence taken. That's perfectly understandable.

There are quite a few advantages to cloud based solutions, a major one being "simplicity", by that I mean that they're easy to setup and manage (zero hassle for beginners).

Thanks, happy to hear that you like it. We do have a business model and multiple possible revenue streams. The most obvious one being freemium. We're in beta right now, so it made sense for us to keep it free during beta. We will be rolling out pricing as soon as we leave beta.

It'll always be free for individuals, but we'll have paid versions for larger teams and companies.

Thanks, that's good feedback. We're in beta now. So we're still improving things.

Thanks, we'll look into that and get it fixed ASAP

Thanks, I'm happy that you like it :)