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mrpandas | 26 days ago

Where's the real value for devs in something like this? Hasn't everyone already built this for themselves in the past 2 years? I'm not trying to sound cheeky or poo poo the product, just surprised if this is a thing. I can never read what's useful by gut anymore, I guess.

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slibhb|26 days ago

> Hasn't everyone already built this for themselves in the past 2 years?

Even if this was true, "everyone building X independently" is evidence that one company should definitely build X and sell it to everyone

mrkurt|26 days ago

Sandboxes with the right persistence and http routing make excellent dev servers. I have about a million dev servers I just use from whatever computer / phone I happen to be using.

It's really useful to just turn a computer on, use a disk, and then plop its url in the browser.

I currently do one computer per project. I don't even put them in git anymore. I have an MDM server running to manage my kids' phones, a "help me reply to all the people" computer that reads everything I'm supposed to read, a dumb game I play with my son, a family todo list no one uses but me, etc, etc.

Immediate computers have made side projects a lot more fun again. And the nice thing is, they cost nothing when I forget about them.

messh|26 days ago

This is exactly what I built shellbox.dev for.

SSH in, it resumes where you left off, auto-suspends on disconnect. $0.50/month stopped.

I have the same pattern - one box per project, never think about them until I need them.

simonw|26 days ago

I'd love to know more about that "help me reply to all the people" one! I definitely need that.

falcor84|26 days ago

> Hasn't everyone already built this for themselves in the past 2 years?

The short answer is no. And more so, I think that "Everyone I know in my milieu already built this for themselves, but the wider industry isn't talking about it" is actually an excellent idea generator for a new product.

ATechGuy|26 days ago

In the last one year, we have seen several sandboxing wrappers around containers/VMs and they all target one use case AI agent code execution. Why? perhaps because devs are good at building (wrappers around VMs) and chase the AI hype. But how are these different and what value do they offer over VMs? Sounds like a tarpit idea, tbh.

Here's my list of code execution sandboxing agents launched in the last year alone: E2B, AIO Sandbox, Sandboxer, AgentSphere, Yolobox, Exe.dev, yolo-cage, SkillFS, ERA Jazzberry Computer, Vibekit, Daytona, Modal, Cognitora, YepCode, Run Compute, CLI Fence, Landrun, Sprites, pctx-sandbox, pctx Sandbox, Agent SDK, Lima-devbox, OpenServ, Browser Agent Playground, Flintlock Agent, Quickstart, Bouvet Sandbox, Arrakis, Cellmate (ceLLMate), AgentFence, Tasker, DenoSandbox, Capsule (WASM-based), Volant, Nono, NetFence

drewbitt|26 days ago

Has everyone really built their own microVMs? I don’t think so.