Per-developer dev box without the per-developer bill

Codespaces charges per active developer-hour. Gitpod charges per developer. The math is fine for ten engineers and unpleasant for forty: at scale, the seat license is the second-biggest infrastructure line on the invoice.

On Hoody, every developer gets a container cloned from the team's golden snapshot. VS Code in the browser, full terminal, the codebase, the deps, the secrets. They open a URL and they're coding. When they close the laptop, the container suspends: zero ongoing cost, files preserved, ports preserved, branch preserved.

Forty containers across two bare metal boxes runs about $200 a month total. The same shape on Codespaces would be ten times that and counting the build minutes.