There are two sides to every story, and so I want to tell you ahead of time, I'm not going to sugarcoat this. Since writing this, I've begun the process of relaunching Kobra, check out other parts of this story here. When I came up with the idea for Kobra.io, I thought what I had was an absolutely splendid idea. An online collaborative code editor with video and text chat built in. I wasn't going to be like "those other guys" (C9, CodeBox, Nitrous.io, etc) where collaboration was just a feature that was tacked on, I wanted collaboration to be the feature that my product concentrated on. So, like every project I decided to build an MVP first and foremost. I wasn't going to add all of the features that I thought were necessary first, or all of the features my competition had. I was going to get it just good enough to prove that it was viable, then launch. Here's what I decided to include in my MVP: Full Code Editor using ACE, with most of the functionality you're used to Code