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