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  mparis
  Congrats on the launch! Very exciting!You guys are operating in a very competitive space. This stuff is fun to build, so a lot of engineers will end up building it. Not to discourage you, but I suspect it will be difficult to capture much value selling this offering as its going to be race to the bottom against very well funded alternatives that can sell these features at a loss in order to get you to use their databases and other offerings that are higher margin and stickier.As you guys learn more about how to take this sort of technology to market, you may consider trying to get closer to the actual work that people actually need these agents to do. What can you do better because you have this technology? For example, I work in healthcare administration and we have built our own agent sandbox infrastructure on top of firecracker microvms that solve similar use cases as Agent37. We will never sell it. It's part of our competitive advantage for doing healthcare tasks.Food for thought! Good luck!
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  alasano
  I've been looking at offloading local work from my MacBook Pro (M1 Pro / 32 GB) specifically because I've been working with a lot of Android apps and emulation is killing me on top of everything else that I'm running.Got a bunch of Daytona credits which are close to useless given their restrictions until you hit tier 3.You seem like you're actually slightly cheaper than https://boat.dev/ but with less storage? That's the closest to your pricing unless I'm mistaken. Any other insight as to differences between you two?Also I'll add you to a list I've been maintaining of sandbox providers, congrats on the launch!https://engine.build/lab/agent-sandboxes
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  MikhailTal
  Sandboxes look a bit commoditized. You cannot 10x on basically what's just a VM with a few agent-friendly features in 2026. Hence competing on purely price as a new startup is a bad idea imo. As you mentioned hyperscalers have insane margins, but if this turns out to be a real market, they will lower cost, even just eat the loss if they want and take you out of business. Without any hardware innovation, it's tough for me to see this working. If you are going with a customization angle, again, no moat and plenty of competitors
• prtmnth
  This is amazing! We are using Box (now Boat dev) and yours is the first offering that looked even more economical. Will be exploring. Cheers and all the best
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  ed_mercer
  When I saw 2 vCPU and 4GB, and then below that "4 GB persistent disk" I was like ooohhh it's the disk, not the memory. But it IS actually 4GB memory + 4GB disk.
• itissid
  Congrats on the launch!. Looks awesome. One small gripe I have is that the user success stores seems obviously like claude has written them. I cancelled my claude sub for codex, partly because i cannot understand claude's style at all - not that there is anything is wrong with it, its effing incomprehensible.Compare the two yourself and judge(latter is written in gpt-6 luna).> One client is one API call. It comes back as an always-on Hermes agent that holds that client’s data, that client’s identity, and a hard ceiling on what it can spend. It answers on an OpenAI-compatible endpoint from the moment it boots, so integrating it was a base URL, the same as pointing at any model API.> Boon provisions an agent for a client with one API call. Each agent has its own client data and identity, along with a spending limit. It exposes an OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so Boon can connect to it by configuring a base URL.
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  talkarimli
  congrats on the launch.i think the sandbox part is getting commoditized, like others said. the harder part is what the agent can touch inside it.you connect google, the agent gets access to everything. sandbox protects the host. it does not protect your tokens.scoped, short lived credentials per task. that i would pay more for. is it on your roadmap?
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  asadm
  Is this using cloudflare behind the scene? how does it compare with https://agents.cloudflare.com/
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  gexla
  Nice, you caught my eyeballs at the right time. I'm going to sign up for it. Cursor / GrokBot already gives me this, but I'm looking to recreate this setup as a backup so that I don't get locked in. This feels like the right direction. Move all this stuff off my desktop and then run everything from my phone.
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  karmakaze
  Was DeepSeek Harness (DSH) intentionally omitted from the listed harnesses for any technical reason?
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  stillpointlab
  Tangentially, I've been investigating the last few days on how to setup a separate Linux box as an agent "playground". I got a mac mini to use as my own personal driver and now my Linux box is free, so I want to have a local setup where I keep my personal machine a bit stricter while giving near free-reign for agents on the Linux machine.It is like a locally-hosted version of these commercial projects. But I'm doing it ad-hoc. This seems like a space that should be filled by open source. What are the options that exist now? I have pro plans for both Codex and Claude Code and enough credits to run a couple instances of each. I want to control them from the mac mini over a tailnet. What options exists now?
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  ATechGuy2
  This is cool; pricing is certainly appealing. At the same time, there are a ton of sandboxing providers.> When you look at agent harnesses, ... CPU/RAM utilization we could lower the cost.How does it work today? Is the harness (assuming it means the agentic loop) located in a separate VM and each loop-run invokes a separate sandboxing VM?
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  rajangdavis
  I have been using your service for a few months… super easy to set up and use. I signed up after my bank would not let me process a payment to Hetzner :)My use case was to play around with hermes. I was using it for a while but I didn’t like how it ended up (the whole set up became overran with files and was a mess, my fault).I still haven’t 100% figured out how I may want to use the service again, but I thought it was super easy to set up.My only feedback is that some connectors for google’s integration were kind of privacy nightmare the last time I checked.Google’s API for using AI has abominable UI and set up.It would be nice to be able to bridge the gap of simplifying Google’s AI/Service integration while not having to hand over access to every Google service I use.
• carterschonwald
  how are you doing cheaper than alternatives pricing? i assume some sort of snapshotting and sleep, wake on network thing?
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  pgcosta
  How do cronjobs work? IE: If I ask an agent to setup a cronjob to check on my email once a day, how does the sandbox behave?Does it have a layer that intercepts Cronjob creation, and setups up a reminder on the supervisor to wake the VM to run the agent job?
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  olalonde
  Pretty cool, trying it out. What LLM is it using in the free tier? I was surprised that it worked without supplying an API key. The model doesn't seem to know either: "This run is labeled agent37/default. That’s the configured model name I can see; it doesn’t reveal which underlying model/provider it maps to.".
• ghm2180
  Congrats on the launch. What's your turn around time to sign a BAA?
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  christoff12
  I have yet to use sandboxes though have some experimentation planned for a new gig I'm starting in a week.How would you compare what you do to fly.io's Sprites (which is currently atop my To Try list)?
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  bitlad
  I had ran into another yc startup from the same batch doing the same thing recently. I think it was called maritime.YC batch are becoming more like hunger games.I know a few companies where this is just a feature like digitalocean it is just a feature.
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  invalidOrTaken
  This is freaking great. Thank you for posting!
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  pranshuchittora
  Just use EC2 t4g.nano
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  colesantiago
  Hi, Vishnu, congrats on the launch.There is another even cheaper sandbox which is in YC (boat.dev)How do you compare to them and how are you cheaper then they are?
• jack324
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