makers of ⛵ boat : powerful, affordable sandboxes for agents 👉 boat.dev 👈 backed by @ycombinator (F26) & @fdotinc
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"Bro I don't need 8gb of ram and x86 and the desktop and chrome and top performance on whatever software I'm running"
said absolutely no customer of mine ever
Most sandboxes only need a filesystem + scripting
You don't need an entire sandbox for this
That's the point of agentOS:
- POSIX-compliant filesystem from S3
- Full Node.js + Python
- Support for most CLIs (git, curl, sh, etc)
In 22 MB of RAM per instance, instead of GB of RAM
And if your agent detects it needs full x86, agentOS can escalate to a real sandbox for the long tail of workloads
git.new/agent-os
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feeling like everyone is expecting a qt from me on this
pricing and features become so nuanced to compare in this space I'm currently doing deeper research and will publish results soon
but yeah we are miles cheaper and boot time is full vanity metric, but cool vid tho
boxd in 60 seconds
a whole linux machine that boots in under 10ms
composable: set it up once with your tools and data, then spin up as many as you need
fork it mid run, let it hibernate, wake it on traffic, share it with your team
one line to install: curl -fsSL boxd.sh/downloads/install.sh | sh
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boat (YC F26) retweeted
So many anti-bot annoyances don't even exist on Squad.so
It's browser works as it should by default
It's browser is already prepatched to handle those - thanks to @boatdotdev
Grok Bot and Muse users, this is the reason to switch to Squad.so
every agent gets its own real computer and browser. give it your login once or sign in yourself on its screen
when a captcha or 2FA shows up it pings you, you do that one step, it carries on
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opus is now able to do great explainer videos
so I urge you to add one tl;dr video for humans at the top of each of your doc pages
just did that for boat.dev and it's amazing!
AIs love long text, but humans need a visual overview
now we can have both!
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how to use boat.dev?
tell this to your agent:
"onboard me on boat.dev till we have a first VM up and then build a QA bot that sends me a fast demo video & report when I send a msg describing a feature on telegram, & can do multiple in parallel"
Introducing boat.dev
the VM sandbox with the fastest CPU
and the lowest price per hour
ideal for long-running or always-on agents
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free VM... for 60 minutes
and after that, 23x more expensive than boat.dev for same amount of RAM and vCPU
🥶
Get a free VM from your terminal or from @muse.
Zero sign-up. One command.
ssh railway.new
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with boat.dev you can run up to 2000 concurrent 8c 16gb ram 125gb nvme VMs
no time limit, they could run forever
filesystem is snapshotted every 60s, no data loss, no bad surprises
if they ever die (node failure?) we reboot em on another node
all self-serve
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