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Nimbus - Powerful, frictionless cloud dev environments

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Nimbus is a cloud dev environment that saves devs time and effort. Devs never set up or maintain their environment and get more performance via powerful cloud machines accessed through their local VS code app (with other IDEs to come!).

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Nish Ithayakumar
Maker
Hi Product Hunt! We’re Nish, Liusha, and Neil — the Nimbus team! ☁️ Nimbus provides dev teams with a pre-configured dev environment in the cloud. We provide the infrastructure and tools for your team to scale, prepare, and manage your dev environments via on-demand cloud machines The idea was sparked when Liusha transitioned from building software for Fortune 1000 companies to Facebook. In the past, he had to set up, maintain, and troubleshoot environments across time zones and outdated docs. At Facebook, he only had to focus on designing and building great products — it was bliss. We started building an MVP to bring this to a coding bootcamp Liusha had taught at, but soon realized how valuable this could be more broadly. Lots of teams try to build similar internal tooling but are surprised by complexity and resourcing needs. Less surprisingly, engineers recognize how powerful this is but aren’t super excited about building this out themselves. That’s why the three of us joined forces to bring the benefits of a cloud dev environment to all. Want to try it out? Nimbus is invite-only right now, but we’re prioritizing the Product Hunt community. Reach out and let's chat: hello@usenimbus.com. Why build on the cloud? ☁️ Simplicity: easier to maintain and scale environments ☁️ Safe-space: broken environments can be thrown away ☁️ Security: code doesn't touch laptops ☁️ Speed: CPU power and download speed are not dependent on your laptop, or connection How is Nimbus different (e.g. From AWS Cloud9 or Github Codespaces)? 💡 Platform agnostic (building for non-Microsoft IDEs like IntelliJ) 💡 Support local IDEs (currently supporting VS code, with more to come) 💡 Flexibility focused (environments aren’t containers; install nearly app you want, multiple repos per env) 💡 Customization (persist user files on ephemeral dev environments, plug into your internal tooling) What will Nimbus help me do? ✅ Enjoy peace of mind with unbreakable environments ✅ Unlock more power to cut build times, wait times, and data transfers ✅ Simplify onboarding and keep code off laptops ✅ Keep dev environments maintained indefinitely (even infrequent or forgotten projects) ✅ Work on multiple projects at the same time — no more git-branch-switching 💰 Deal for Product Hunt: 2 months free, 50% discount on license fee for 10 months. Mention the Product Hunt anytime before you sign up or start a paid plan and we’ll set you up.
Rani Mavram
So excited to try this! Congrats on the launch team. :)
Nish Ithayakumar
Maker
@rani_mavram1 Thanks Rani! We're incredibly excited!
Aliyaho Pearce
Just reached out - would love to use this to maintain some of my side projects
Liusha Huang
Maker
Thanks Aliyaho :) Happy to get you set up!
Sam Seely
Congrats on the launch, Nimbus! Excited to take a closer look and see what you've been building! ☁️🎉
Neil Chen
Maker
@samseely Thank you, Sam!
Liusha Huang
Maker
@samseely Thans Sam!
Hamza Koru
Simple, pre-configured cloud coding; very cool. Excited to see the different types of projects that can be built with Nimbus
Neil Chen
Maker
@hamza_koru Thank you Hamza! Nimbus supports any type of projects without requiring any change to tech stacks, engineering workflows, and existing toolset that teams are using. Feel free to reach out to us and we are definitely glad to share more details tailored to your needs!
Anand Chowdhary
We at Pabio have been using Nimbus for a while now and we love it! We've previously used our own self-hosted EC2 VS Code instances, GitHub Codespaces, and other web-based solutions, but Nimbus is the best deal -- it's affordable, extensible, and the founders are great help. Highly recommended!
Nish Ithayakumar
Maker
@anandchowdhary Thanks for the support - we love working with badass engineers like you guys
Liusha Huang
Maker
@anandchowdhary Thank you Anand! We definitely love to work with Pabio and we will keep improve Nimbus throughout the way.
Tomas Antonok
Really interesting stuff! Good job, upvoted.
Nish Ithayakumar
Maker
@antovtok Thank you for the support!
Viacheslav Maznov
worth to check definitely) thanks
Nish Ithayakumar
Maker
@viacheslav_maznov Reach out! We'd be happy to get you set up!
Siva Sivarajan
Great idea! Going to be big
Nish Ithayakumar
Maker
@siva_sivarajan Thanks Siva!
Rand Owens
This is dope! I'll be showing this to a few friends.
Nish Ithayakumar
Maker
@rand_owens2 thanks for the support!
Andrew Israel
Really cool idea, congrats on the launch!
Nish Ithayakumar
Maker
@andrew_israel Thanks Andrew!
Bran N
Very cool idea! Excited to try it out when it comes out! Good work congrats!
Nish Ithayakumar
Maker
@bran23 Its out already! Reach out if you'd like access!
Henry Young
Super cool - how much memory is on each Nimbus machine? and how do you guys config the machine?
Neil Chen
Maker
@hdawg Thanks, Henry! For machine power, system image, and other configurations, we provide flexible and custom selections for each of our customers based on their needs. In general, teams can pick from 2-16 cores vCPU and 2-32 GB memory. Feel free to check out our pricing section at https://www.usenimbus.com/#Pricing Feel free to read out at hello@usenimbus.com so that we can understand more about your needs. Also please include the product hunt link so that we can apply the special PH discounts for you! :)
Guddu Pandit
This seems like a really promising project. Been looking for something like this. Will be in touch.
Neil Chen
Maker
@guddu_pandit Thank you Guddu! Always feel free to shoot us your questions at hello@usenimbus.com. Glad to answer any questions that you may have!
Alana Tees
So many benefits to coding and building products this way, especially for remote-first teams... go Nimbus!
Neil Chen
Maker
@alana_tees Thank you, Alana! That's exactly what we'd love to to enable remote teams with Nimbus!
Harsh Patel
This is pretty cool! Are guys going to support Webstorm?
Nish Ithayakumar
Maker
@harsh2193 JetBrains IDEs are coming soon!
Eric Liu
How long can you persist the dev server?
Liusha Huang
Maker
@zlll It is configurable. Depends on the needs, we can persist the dev server until a user shut it down or we can also manage it for users to shutdown the dev servers according to inactivities.
Sparrow Ma
Excited for the launch! Can't wait to see how Nimbus will be used by distributed teams across the world!
Aakash N S
We're trying out Nimbus for the engineering team at Jovian and our experience has been great so far. The team is always responsive and open to feedback. Congrats on the launch, all the best!
Neil Chen
Maker
@aakash_n_s Thank you, Aakash!