November 2018 Summaries

The text discusses a Meetup event at the Austin Office, where interested attendees or speakers can participate. It also introduces Coder, an application that aims to provide limitless computational power and storage by allowing users to build applications and collaborate with distributed teams in real-time. The company was founded by three teenagers who met online while working on various tech projects. They later moved to Austin, Texas, to work together on building Coder. The product has gained significant traction globally across 125 countries, with users ranging from students analyzing the human genome to CEOs coding on their Chromebooks. The company is currently backed by several investors and is working towards making its vision a reality.

Coder v0.2 aims to provide a portable, extendable development environment in the browser with features like real-time collaboration, dynamic scaling of resources, and expandable storage. It integrates popular IDEs such as VSCode while maintaining their functionality and supports running extensions both in the browser and on the server for better performance. The platform is free to use but offers optional upgrades for additional storage, CPU, memory, and networking. Coder is currently in alpha stage and welcomes feedback from users.