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Dev tools · March 6, 2024

Daytona – Open-source dev env manager from a 15-year journey

Hey HN, I'm Ivan Burazin, and for the past 15 years, I have been on a mission to streamline software development environments. Today, I'm excited to share the culmination of that journey: Daytona, an open-source Development Environment Manager designed to finally solve the issue of setting up dev environments, whether local or remote. My journey in cloud development began in 2009 when my cofounder and I we launched the first (or at least one of) commercial Cloud IDEs, Codeanywhere. We developed everything in-house: the IDE, the orchestrator, and more. We garnered interest from over 2.5…

Daytona – Open-source dev env manager from a 15-year journey launched on March 6, 2024 with 73 votes, #968 of 4,270 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.

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In plain words

Daytona is an open-source development environment manager that automates the setup of coding environments for both local and remote use. Built by Ivan Burazin, who spent 15 years developing cloud development solutions including the early commercial Cloud IDE Codeanywhere, the tool addresses the growing complexity of environment configuration. It provides developers with a streamlined way to initialize and manage development setups without manual installation and configuration work.

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From the sources

Daytona is a Secure and Elastic Infrastructure for Running AI-Generated Code - daytonaio/daytona

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hey HN, I'm Ivan Burazin, and for the past 15 years, I have been on a mission to streamline software development environments. Today, I'm excited to share the culmination of that journey: Daytona, an open-source Development Environment Manager designed to finally solve the issue of setting up dev environments…

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