# Start developing COOL on any platform in 5 minutes!
**URL:** https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/start-developing-cool-on-any-platform-in-5-minutes/52
**Category:** Development
**Tags:** gitpod
**Created:** [October 22, 2020, 10:39am UTC](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/start-developing-cool-on-any-platform-in-5-minutes/52 "2020-10-22T10:39:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@kara](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/u/kara)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2020, 10:39am UTC](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/start-developing-cool-on-any-platform-in-5-minutes/52/1 "2020-10-22T10:39:44Z")
On top of our daily LibreOffice core archives, we have also added integration support for Gitpod, a cloud based development environment. Now you can start hacking Collabora Online (COOL) in under ~5 minutes! You might want to keep an eye on our [Twitter account](https://twitter.com/CollaboraOffice) in case a quick video tutorial comes up in the following days. 😉
**Steps to quick start:**
- Sign-up on [Gitpod.io](http://gitpod.io/) with your GitHub account
- Install the [proper extension](https://www.gitpod.io/docs/browser-extension/) for your browser
- Go to [COOL repo](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online)
- Click on the green Gitpod button near the top of the GitHub repo page
[](https://www.collaboraoffice.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gitpod-button-onGitHub.png)
- Wait for a few minutes, and you will have a full development environment with COOL already cloned & built, ready-to-start/develop
[](https://www.collaboraoffice.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/gitpod-screenshot-COOL.png)
- Don’t forget to also fork the main repo 
- And set the remote address in .git/config to point to your fork’s address with this command:
```bash
git remote set-url origin https://github.com/PUT-YOUR-GITHUB-USERNAME-HERE/online.git
```
Happy hacking! 🙂
_First published on [Collabora Online Community Roundup #2](https://www.collaboraoffice.com/online/collabora-online-community-roundup-2/)_
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### Author:  [@kara](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/u/kara)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2020, 4:47pm UTC](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/start-developing-cool-on-any-platform-in-5-minutes/52/2 "2020-11-03T16:47:54Z")
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### Author:  [@darshan](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/u/darshan)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2026, 12:50pm UTC](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/start-developing-cool-on-any-platform-in-5-minutes/52/3 "2026-04-02T12:50:05Z")