[ajhit406]

There are a ton of additional benefits of being in the cloud. You can backup your environment and replicate it in minutes, you can collaborate with other developers across the world really easily in real-time, and you can work from any device with a modern web browser. A lot of clients really prefer using Nitrous environments for their service providers because they feel as though they have more control over the developers they're hiring and their IP -- clearly there are still risks since there are fairly easy ways to pull code down but "owning" the machine that your contractors are working on is a step in the right direction for compliance and audit purposes.

We’ve found the biggest benefits are really around the collaborative use cases — sharing environments easily and working together remotely. It’s saved us a ton of time when we’re troubleshooting issues. Yes, you can use tmux over SSH, but not everyone wants to setup and maintain their own development server. I think that interacting with your environment using Nitrous Pro is a really enjoyable experience.

That said, we’ve still got a lot of work to do, so we really do appreciate all the feedback and support from the HN crowd.

[sergiosgc]

> We’ve found the biggest benefits are really around the collaborative use cases

That's an acceptable selling point. Pull it to the front and center on the site. Do not just mention that it's better for collaboration, demonstrate it. Right now, copy on the site is centered on ease of setup which, to me, is a poor feature to justify ceding control of dev workstations.