Dev Environment as a Service - Would you use it?

Hey Indie Hackers!

First-time poster here. I'm a self-taught dev into endurance running, motorcycles, and wine.

When I first started learning, and even now, I really struggled to figure out environment setup and all the non-coding parts of coding. There doesn't seem to be a good solution for this, making the "it works on my machine" statement a meme at this point. Docker solves it in part, but I found it to be super opaque, and not good for the initial writing of code.

I built Booste to solve the machine config issue. It's a command line tool for developers that syncs code to a remote VM (EC2 hosted and managed by Booste) and runs it there rather than locally. One person sets up the VM environment, and team members can jump in and run their code in that environment without setup.

In practice: instead of typing a command like python hello(dot)py to run a python script locally, you'd type booste python hello(dot)py and that flags to the CLI that you want to execute it in the remote env. It processes there and streams back to the terminal, seeming as if it's running on your own machine.

TBH, I've had the service up for a month, launched on Hacker News, and am not feeling the pull I'd expect. Lots of vaguely positive feedback, but the traction and churn doesn't reflect that. I'm at an inflection point where I need to decide: do I need to work harder to get it in front of people, or do I need to change the product?

Would love feedback:

• Based on this post, do you understand what Booste is?
• Would you pay for this?
• What strategies have you used to separate the vaguely-positive feedback from the true signal?

Cheers