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Self-hosted alternative to Gitpod and Github Codespaces. **[Pointer](https://daily.dev/sources/pointer)** · 4 min read · 21 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Hocus is a self-hosted alternative to Gitpod and GitHub Codespaces that allows you to spin up ready-to-code, disposable development environments on your own servers. It integrates with various Git providers and offers features like workspaces, prebuilds, project environment variables, VSCode integration, root access, and monorepo support. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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