I don't see how repl.it doesn't get burned doing that. You could host my entire ELK stack and Postgres database... what would the resource limits be? What would the cost be?
I think repl.it is still at the growth and scale stage. Actual profitability probably won't matter much for another couple of years. (They run on Google Cloud so the costs are pretty insane without VC funding.)
Okay this is irrelevant to the discussion but I just typed in `github/mevdschee/2048.c` in the address bar expecting Firefox to perform a Google search but it instead lead me to the repo! What!
If you type something that is not a valid/existing domain, Firefox will try to append .com and/or prepend www. in an attempt to get a valid domain. If that fails, it will do a search.
You can configure this via browser.fixup.alternate.* in about:config.
Yup, I can confirm it doesn't play nice with Ad blockers for some reason because it worked on chrome and Firefox on my android phone, but did not work with Firefox focus
Of course you can do this, however, if you're ever on a shared device or using someone else's computer, it's much faster to login to GitPod and make a quick fix than to setup SSH keys, download an editor (if you're an atom guy like myself), and go through the song and dance. Then have to tear it all down again.
Granted, this isn't a common scenario, but it's happened to me before and GitPod is just so much more convenient. I've tried AWS Cloud9 and wasn't that great of a development experience, the great thing about GitPod is it's fast, easy, portable, and honestly a great developer experience since it's the VSCode editor.
> That'll open up an instance of _VSCode_ in a web browser and you can start coding
GitPod actually runs https://theia-ide.org/, not VSCode, but Theia is compatible with VSCode extensions, and they've themed it to look practically identical, so it's definitely not super obvious.
Take any github repo, prepend the url with "https://gitpod.io/#", and hit Enter
(so https://github.com/ZainRizvi/UseRWithGpus would become https://gitpod.io/#https://github.com/ZainRizvi/UseRWithGpus)
That'll open up an instance of VSCode in a web browser and you can start coding