{"slug": "show-hn-staffcoder-hands-on-practice-for-modern-frameworks-in-a-browser-ide", "title": "Show HN: Staffcoder, hands-on practice for modern frameworks in a browser IDE", "summary": "Shashank launched Staffcoder, a browser-based IDE offering 1000+ hands-on software engineering challenges across 40 skills, including React, Angular, Django, .NET, Springboot, Redis, Kafka, Git, Kubernetes, Docker, and AI engineering. The platform includes an AI assistant and an in-IDE AI agent for agentic development skills, with a free plan limited to 1 hour per week and a 7-day free trial of the pro plan, plus pay-as-you-go billing for additional AI usage.", "body_md": "Hi HN,\n\nI'm Shashank. I have curated 1000s of practical real world software engineering assessments in the past as part of my job. I felt there's a gap where if a person wants to learn to build software they have many options to learn from (learning platforms and free resources) but very few or no options to practice their skills hands on. I built Staffcoder so that developers can learn the skills while solving real world scenarios across various domains in software engineering.\n\nOn Staffcoder you can select a skill, start from beginner level and move up solving real world challenges. All this within the browser tab without needing to install anything locally. Moreover we're giving AI assistant to help solve and AI agent in the IDE for agentic development skills.\n\nThere are 1000+ challenges across 40 skills, covering frontend, backend, mobile, DevOps, data, and AI engineering. We offer skills like React, Angular, Django, .NET, Springboot, Redis, Kafka, Git, Kubernetes, Docker just to name a few.\nYou can see the skills here [https://www.staffcoder.com/paths](https://www.staffcoder.com/paths)\n\nWe also plan to launch Practice and Compete sections for experienced users once we have some traction. Sign up and stay tuned. Think of us as leetcode for real software engineering challenges.\n\nCurrently we give 1 hour/week of free usage in free plan. There's a 7 day free trial of pro plan as well. Additional AI usage is billed as pay as you go.\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50004081](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50004081)\n\nPoints: 1\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-staffcoder-hands-on-practice-for-modern-frameworks-in-a-browser-ide", "canonical_source": "https://www.staffcoder.com", "published_at": "2026-10-08 10:28:42+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-08 10:50:01.374351+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "developer-tools", "ai-agents"], "entities": ["Staffcoder", "Shashank", "React", "Angular", "Django", ".NET", "Springboot", "Kubernetes"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-staffcoder-hands-on-practice-for-modern-frameworks-in-a-browser-ide", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-staffcoder-hands-on-practice-for-modern-frameworks-in-a-browser-ide.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-staffcoder-hands-on-practice-for-modern-frameworks-in-a-browser-ide.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-staffcoder-hands-on-practice-for-modern-frameworks-in-a-browser-ide.jsonld"}}