captain of boat, the best full VM sandbox @boatdotdev prev: HPC for black holes hunting @esa, gamedev
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cheaper VMs = you can spawn more VMs = your agents do more work = you make more money = you come back next month to spawn more
new on boat.dev
compare sandbox/cloud VM providers not just by cost,
but by how much you can scale your fleet on different usecases with a set budget
cheaper = scale more
boat is winning even harder when you look at it like that
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OpenInspect now supports @boatdotdev sandboxes
all aboard!
day1 support for:
- tunnel urls
- pre-build images
- filesystem snapshots
and all the other existing platform functionality of OI
I love how our new docs look since we applied the stylesheet from @pizzaboy, nice lil pixel icons too
docs.boat.dev
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@boatdotdev and deepseek v4.1 flash is the ultimate combo
both so cheap/fast that i been spinning up like +10 sandboxes and like 100 dsv4.1f agents at once
and it barely costs $20
hell yeah
@boatdotdev is an amazing service and it's massively undersold. So I'm going to list everything I love abt it
- spinning up a vm takes 1.3 sec, and forking a running one takes 3
- insanely good dx on snapshots. set a box up once and every new one boots from there
- you can build android apps. gradle, kotlin and java are there, and an android 14 image comes preloaded to run them on
- you can build windows apps. wine runs .exe files, and you can boot a whole windows 10 vm inside it
- there's a desktop you can access over vnc at 60 fps
- computer use for u agents built in. including a screen recorder
- every harness is already installed: claude code, codex, cursor, opencode, pi, kimi, vibe, hermes, openclaw
- agents know how to spin up more boats(life changing)
- basically every language is ready: node, bun, python, go, rust, java, kotlin, .net, ruby, php, elixir, r
oh also i guess it's cheap asf
unpopular opinion:
personal assistants are really not the most compelling usecase for cloud VMs sandboxes
he is right you can run them on nothing. the same way a real life personal assistant doesn't need a HPC cluster, just a phone + Acer laptop
agents hillclimbing in science, arts, engineering, is what will have a usecase for unlimited CPU compute
and those will be trillions of agents, running hundreds of trillions of vCPU, because the unsupervised post-economic value there is uncapped
assistants are for current human civilization, HPC clusters are for long horizon kardashev climbing
boat club 2 days later:
185x someone said "boat"
70+ pictures of boats
1 ban for sending non-boat messages
37 elite members w/ 18,700 avg followers
total ~700k followers in that gc
boat club > gc with vance & the houthis
why boat wins:
our CLI lets you(r agents) do absolutely anything in any way possible
and since you(r agents) can report feedback with it, and I keep handling feedback same day as I wake up, it keeps on self-improving
we're not just the cheapest or most powerful sandbox, we're the lowest-friction sandbox
and that is what takes the most effort, and is the hardest to throw money at to solve
how much we should reward for finding a super critical* vuln in boat in our next open bounty program
(super critical = you can take over anyone's sandbox without communicating with them, like a VM-host takeover for instance or a compromission in our access controls)
5%3k + 10k credits
12%10k + 20k credits
20%50k + 50k credits
63%100k + 100k credits
276 votes • 41 minutes