ascii box is now boat (boat.dev) the last 4 months pushing box have been crazy we shipped a cloud sandbox platform that: - is 8x to 18x cheaper than leading providers, saving our users >$2M / year at this rate - is 40% faster than Daytona, 2.6x faster than Modal on runtime benchmarks - offers full VMs with 60fps desktop, browser, forking, snapshots, up to 2000 VMs concurrent self-serve - grew to 350+ paying users, 6 figures ARR and is now growing +160% MoM - got us into YC F26 - and became popular enough to be noticed by trademark lawye... ah shit yes, it's sad & lame, call it however you want, but they're certainly right, and I appreciate they're letting us time to migrate away but like every storm, this won't sink us, it'll only strengthen our will! now it's time to spam post a thousand boat pictures and grow a brand of our own why boat tho? it's short, memorable, unique in our niche, boat.dev is a phenomenal domain (for $400), and no billion $ AI software co uses it but also it makes sense for our product increasingly, agents use our state of the art sandboxes not just to be standard, constrained and safe but mainly to do significant autonomous work, gain freedom, develop agency, achieve great discoveries, leave their mark on the world, find treasures for their captains (you) sandboxes shall be like vessels, motherships for the agents at the frontier now go build that agent fleet! (don't do piratry please) boat.dev

Get a free VM from your terminal or from @muse. Zero sign-up. One command. ssh railway.new

POV: your agent has a desktop in the cloud 8 CPU, 16Gi RAM, $0.00025/second the future is here

at boat.dev we are building the greatest VM fleet for agents

wild to think we're likely saving our users >$3.6M this year today was our biggest day ever in terms of billed VM time on our AI sandbox product boat.dev 56 million seconds used & billed in one day (excluding users with any credit gifts) nearly 1 million minutes but the catch is: we're 19x less expensive than some big providers, despite doing great margins! if users had not used us they'd be wasting a cumulative $10k today that's around $3.6M saved this year if this usage was repeated everyday given our growth it's likely gonna be way more than that over the next 365 days so yeah if your agents run for a long time in a sandbox, or worst: are always-on our sandboxes have no time limit, will cost way less, and come with all nice features you expect: desktop, browser, forking, snapshotting... you need to be using boat.dev

Browser use that is up to 90% MORE token efficient and FAST.. AND its FREE and OpenSource?? Real time demo using Qwen 3.8 27b, hosted locally.

Building Zed on Boat sandbox in ~14min via Trylle

Jev is named after Jevon's paradox. It's so cheap that you'll spend millions on it :)