# Coder

12 Hacker News commenters recommended Coder and 8 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 7 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Recommended for running development containers and coding agent workspaces, and as a simpler alternative to self-hosting dev environments. The main caveat is that it can overwrite changes in its config section.

## Why people recommend it

- Development containers and agent workspaces (2 comments): "If you are running these agents outside of something like Coder or Codespaces I think you are doing it wrong." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48894320)) "I'm using https://coder.com for all my development containers." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48395719))
- Praised as the perfect dev stack (2 comments): "It's the perfect development stack." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50022481)) "coder is great! We love it." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46116955))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [GitHub Codespaces](https://hackerapproved.com/p/github-codespaces.md): 13 recommend
- [Boxes.dev](https://hackerapproved.com/p/boxes-dev.md): 9 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Coder", https://hackerapproved.com/p/coder/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).