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how to use boat.dev?
tell this to your agent:
"onboard me on boat.dev till we have a first VM up and then build a QA bot that sends me a fast demo video & report when I send a msg describing a feature on telegram, & can do multiple in parallel"
tell this to your agent:
"onboard me on boat.dev till we have a first VM up and then build a QA bot that sends me a fast demo video & report when I send a msg describing a feature on telegram, & can do multiple in parallel"
Introducing boat.dev
the VM sandbox with the fastest CPU
and the lowest price per hour
ideal for long-running or always-on agents
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boat
had agents running last friday in a bunch of sandboxes
i forgot to turn them off during the weekend, but it was so cheap on boat.dev that i didn't care
if you're not using boat you are literally lighting money on fire for zero reason
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bring your girl on the boat
(literally one customer introed us to his gf who became a new customer)
(literally one customer introed us to his gf who became a new customer)
fellas, if your girl:
- wakes up very quickly
- runs absurdly fast
- has great memory
- can do 2000 things at once
- has great curves
it's not your girl, it's a swarm of 2000 Ryzen 9 9900X with 16 vCPU x 32gb xlarge VMs at $0.2/h per VM on boat.dev
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boat is way too fast
I love watching Claude get confused over why @boatdotdev sandboxes at so fast
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the captain doesn't joke around with pirates
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
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boat is the boat for CI
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
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you can now go above your starts/day/hour/minutes limits on boat.dev
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-…
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I'm addicted to the parallax & day-night cycle on boat.dev's hero
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captain oh my captain
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!
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boat retweeted
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
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
We spun up 100 instabox.sh VMs and started Claude Code in all of them (with their desktops recorded)
400 vCPU, 800 GB RAM in total
All ready in 10s, and only $0.01 cost
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boat retweeted
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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boat retweeted
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
all aboard!
day1 support for:
- tunnel urls
- pre-build images
- filesystem snapshots
and all the other existing platform functionality of OI
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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
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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believe it or not
boat likes trains
boat likes trains
launching agents that run 24/7 on cloud
its like a steam engine that doesn't stop
you can run multiple bots run in parallel with each bot having its own @boatdotdev computer
it can also use your local computer unlike Grok @bot
self-host it or get the cloud workspace one click MyUju
with this we are also launching a team plan which can have shared bots across your team
more on that soon @mausbot_
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boat retweeted
@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
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
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boat retweeted
@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
- 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
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