Question to VS Code users
Hey, I was wondering if it makes sense to build a freemium extension for storing and syncing your preferences on the cloud. I would make it more customizable than existing solutions based on gists obviously, with more sophisticated strategies / ability to specify priority of code instances & other features enabled by using some server side logic to handle this instead of simple plaintext storage.
What do you think?
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Hey @lucasgmys
This actually already exists, and I use it to sync everything between my iMac and MacBook - https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Shan.code-settings-sync
It works pretty well too. It stores everything in a Github Gist and just reads/writes to that file.
Feels unnecessary to me. Most developers I know fall into one of two camps:
I'd argue that the folks that don't have an existing solution are going to be extremely hard sells because they already have it in their head that their way is sufficient.
Also, selling to developers is really hard since they are makers and often times will just roll their own solution vs. paying for something else, even if it's better.
Thank you, especially for your last remark. I think I should change my focus area.
No problem... it's so true though, and I'm guilty of it.... I once rolled a light weight version of MeetEdgar that suited my personal needs because I wanted to save the money.
As my buddy @collinbrewer always reminds me "be the entrepreneur, not the engineer". Hard to shake the engineer mentality sometimes though :)
Best of luck with everything!!
I always forget about that;) Thanks & gl;)
I never felt this need and code with vs code / sublime for a while. Cannot see the use case really why would I need to store my preferences on the cloud?
It's a nice idea. You're problem is building it and then no-one using it. So try and validate more I reckon.
If I was you, perhaps jump in a few development Slack groups. Wes Bos, Tech London etc ... and ask there. Also perhaps (if it will take long to build) get a super simple landing page up, where people can give you emails. And talk about it on Twitter. Just ask developers who use VSCode if they'd like it.
There's also probably a VS Code forum out there, where you should post this!
Thanks a lot, I will ask around. :)
I really love everything being synced so I can have the exact same development experience across all computer. Because I took a lot of time crafting the best settings "build" :)
I use this extension a lot: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Shan.code-settings-sync and it works really well. I don't miss any feature. So I don't think I would be a potential user.
Also, I noticed that most devs around me use the IDE as is. They don't customize anything even when they find some shortcuts or options annoying. They don't even try to change them.
Still, I managed to share some settings I find useful with my coworkers and they were really happy.
Maybe sharing settings across a team could be a good feature that does not exists yet?
Also, having a website with settings samples / templates could be very useful (not only for VSCode). This could be a great community which could eventually lead to some business.
I see more and more post like "these are my VSCode settings and they are awesome", or "10 VSCode settings that you won't be able to live without".