boat

you have PM celebrity gossip and then you have YC engineer tpot gossip

trying to move our own CI to boat from blacksmith

gosh we're as fast and 8x cheaper

(I mean for me it's more like free coz you guys pay for my spare compute lolololol)

considering 2 new bare metal instances for boat.dev

which one should I pick?

gm sf

captain speaking: the boat is flying!

i repeat, the boat is flying!

what people don't realize is that @luaroncrew and I met 5y ago, failed our first startup together

we joined again more than 1.5y ago to start working on boat.dev (before even the left of this chart)

we came into sandboxes as frustrated users, and we developed them

slowly, all from 1st principles, all with a user-centric approach

we wanted to build the openclaw for software engineering, before openclaw, before long running cloud agents, before cursor had a cloud desktop, before the surge of ADEs

no sandbox was good enough for our usecase, and I believe now except boat.dev none would still be good enough

we wanted to build:

1. a always on CTO agent "Alfred" that would take high level goals & constantly loop (before loops) on your stuff:

this needed a always on sandbox, still cheap if running 24/7 but beefy as f, with ability to setup an entire dev environment + browser for acquiring info or signal to loop on + a desktop to record demos on to keep deliverables super high level

2. the ability for the CTO agent to make copies of his entire disk and setup live into shorter running sandboxes with same OS and all, just for individual subagents and tasks that needed isolated testing

this needed a robust fs snapshot system, git-like in the background, optimized for small snapshot size, yet robust and predictable

all of this at a time of still great agent flackyness

the sandbox got easy to use, (cost) optimized and unique enough that we thought maybe it'd have more success as a standalone product

and we were so go damn right, our ARR has 34x since we shipped boat.dev in late may

so yeah, we had to grind for monthes to get something okay-ish

overnight successes don't exist, great products require full honesty, full dedication, full grind, and knowing the pain as good as having lived it first hand

in just 30d we multiplied boat.dev's already above 6 figures ARR by 3.4 full PLG (yapping on X to be precise),

no paid ads, no events, no big contracts, no sales motion

yeah, it's possible when people really be loving your product

you can run an android emulator in boat.dev VMs, starting at $0.000005/s, up to 2000 concurrent self-serve, for QA, building, CI, scrapping...

yes

how i look at u if u use daytona
vs
how i look at u if u use boat.dev

huge w for sf if this is opening soon and not just a remnant from the pre covid

the ultimate infra reliability trick:

> create a telegram bot
> plug it to your backend
> have it message based on thresholds & e2e tests
> shit happens: you know it before your users
> team across timezones sees it, you sleep safe

pov: slowdown fixed by @luaroncrew at 4am

@norbertbodziony in my veins

more and more people pay for and use boat.dev, the best cloud VMs for swarms of agents

@skeptrune drinking coke is insane because they have seven hundred thousands employees & still can't build a mcp server

just got access to abliterated chinese models on @morphllm for cyberdefense

prompted to pentest us for:

> cross tenant secret leaking, penetration or spying
> guest-host takeover
> control pane takeover

ngl our engineering is good, it's struggling, we're gonna need real pros

gm sf

came to the attention of @utpalnadiger that i had not worn a tie in 2 days

which is utterly undignified behavior from a YC founder and captain of boat.dev

so today we fix that

came to my attention there is a fake telegram profile pretending to be me (with a typo)

if it sends you DMs just report, it's not me and I probably wouldn't DM you anyway

another sign of PMF i guess

on boat.dev cloud VMs on a $250 budget you can spin up in <2s from a snapshot:

> 17k typical CI runs (6.5x cheaper than on blacksmith)
> 31k RL runs (8x cheaper than on daytona)
> 868 coding agents for 8hr

on 4c x 8gb x 50gb nvme, ryzen 9 full VMs

boat offers the least expensive full VMs for agents at $0.00001/s for 4c 8gb ram 50gb nvme

to further protect these prices historically we've had to cap the n° VMs starts / day

we raised the limits 2 times already, and today we add a way to burst above them, up to 3x, using get up to 25% free credits for starts, snapshots & VM time by buying more of them upfront

the kind of spiky workloads we saw in prod that benefit from bursting remain 4x to 8x less costly on boat.dev than Daytona, E2B or Modal

and it's now way less frustrating to pull them off

on boat.dev more than anywhere else, the generous compute pricing aligns closely & sustainably with real costs

learn more:
docs.boat.dev/limits#limits-…

@rassulred great stuff ngl

just met 3 awesome founders in SF from kazakhstan

they've been boat.dev users for some time, helped them migrate off a big sandbox provider and cut their bill by a ton

they gave me delicious chocolate to thank us for boat

i must have the best job in the world

gm sf

I'm Anicet, 25 from France

I'm building boat.dev, the best cloud computers for agents to do real work

we've just crossed 1000 active paying users and are growing 3x MoM

if you want to help agents hillclimb, engineer, design, join us, give them boats!

what kind of churn is that

boat

@NavDoesTech for your defense I asked the agent about you specifically

nice try

we spun up 700 boat.dev VMs 4c x 8gb, started codex + minecraft, made it all play in multiplayer together

they all booted from a snapshot in the first 10s, which cost $0.07, same price per VM, core & ram

but much more impressive capabilities and scale

imagine u open a random gcal link and u see this

we're gonna need a bigger boat

dude knows how to talk to french founders

I love how our new docs look since we applied the stylesheet from @pizzaboy, nice lil pixel icons too

docs.boat.dev

okay you guys are so many paying for boat.dev cloud VMs now it's insane

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 dbox

and that is what takes the most effort, and is the hardest to throw money at to solve

everything according to plan

"there are too many AI sandboxes why do we even need you it's a total commodity"

my brother in christ it's such a bad day to short boat.dev

this is all my yapping on X compounding btw

our boat.dev cloud VMs are 10x cheaper than blacksmith for CI

users have been using us for that, saying they prefer us over namespace

so I wrote a guide about it: docs.boat.dev/ci

(I mean my agents read messages with users that do CI on us and wrote it)

added a lil parallax

thought you'd like it 👉👈

founder mode

for anyone wanting to migrate off railway for cloud VMs, sandboxes, CI

at boat.dev we're up to 23x less expensive at scale

our VMs have 99.95% uptime

we offer the highest perf CPU in the world

we have a great CLI for agents to migrate you off in a day

gave u all the alpha about doing a startup but no one listened

new landing page to showcase how boat.dev offers the best cloud VMs for agent fleets at the best price!

inspired by Finland & Poland (where boat V1 was built), ANSI art, and now featuring some customer logos

made by parallel grinding design for 4d on 60 boat VMs

i'm pretty sure my series C+ prospects will love that one

our cloud VMs for agents at boat.dev have the best customers

turns out the most powerful, permissive, and scalable solution on a budget appeals to people at the frontier

so glad to be able to showcase these amazing boatmaxxers on our new landing dropping today

@Amabec_ceo @grok on the roadmap sir

boat

imagine you missed that livestream

boat

hell yeah

you're right

boat.dev is the temu of AI sandboxes

> undercutting everyone by 4x to 18x
> made in a 3rd world country overseas (France)
> the entire internet keeps talking about it

oh except we also top performance benchmarks

but ignore that