Launching today
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Simple computers for agent w/ full VMs
43 followers
Simple computers for agent w/ full VMs
43 followers
Box offers the simplest, cheapest cloud computers for agents, thought for builders of agentic platforms & software factories. Run 'box new' in your terminal, in 2s get a beefy ubuntu VM, with admin rights, a desktop, ssh access. At $0.036/hr it is 10x less expensive than the likes of E2B, Daytona, Modal, so you can run more agents, or run them longer. Run up to 1000 concurrent boxes fully self-served, or ask us for more, with same-day support from the founders.
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Hello Product Hunt,
2 years ago, I worked at the European Space Agency, scaling their black holes & binary stars research efforts.
At that time, GPT 4o already helped us find many optimizations that made the code more scalable. But to test them, our agents needed a cluster of cloud compute, which we had to wait 2 months to get. AI may work fast but compute provisioning is slowing it down.
After leaving, I spent 10 months building cloud coding agents, which needed cloud computers too, so I tried many self-serve options for "computers for agents" and "AI sandboxes".
But there was no fit, they were optimized for bursty, short-lived scenarios on containers rather than full computers where anything just works...
... all while being super expensive, high multiples of what the same compute is worth in the average datacenter in Europe.
So 2 months ago, we built and launched box on X, our on-demand computers for agents, super cost-efficient and powerful.
Now our computers for agents have already run for 10 years in just 2 months, growing steadily every week.
Today, they already power many agentic platforms, software factories, cybersecurity audits platforms, with real customers in production.
Try box and let us know how it goes :) https://box.ascii.dev
bunny.net
@anic_dev congrats on the launch!
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@marek_nalikowski thank you Marek!
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@thys_beesman we hit such low price because we designed the whole system for cost efficiency, using no dependencies and minimizing the operational costs. we have our own snapshotting system (beautiful tech built in-house), allowing you to easily stop/resume/fork your machine.
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@thys_beesman Compute in European datacenters is just that cheap, its just hard to build around, we still make v good margins.
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Hey guys!
im Kirill, the CTO of box.
Today, we're seeing 7 consecutive weeks of big usage growth, and compared to six months ago, our MRR is 130× higher. It's been an incredible ride, but we're still early, and we're shipping every single day.
I'd genuinely love your feedback: good or bad. If you're building coding agents, personal assistants, or any agentic product, you can find box super useful!
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@luaroncrew The goat
Cede.store
Good luck with the launch guys, amazing product!
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@meta_nkt thank you Nikita!!