Most local laptops are much stronger than is needed to run the entire stack of your average startup with no resource issues. And the dev environment stops runn

Most local laptops are much stronger than is needed to run the entire stack of your average startup with no resource issues. And the dev environment stops running when you close the laptop, but you also don't need it since you're not developing. Not saying it can work for absolutely all cases but it's definitely good enough for a lot of cases.