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Simple computers for agent w/ full VMs
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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.
PH · launched Jul 22, 2026 · 238 upvotes (top 56%) · 0 views
Niche: ai agent runtime environments · 745 launches, 498 in the last 7 days ▲ +916% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Model & infra
- Developer
- AI-native
- Commercial product
- Developer Tools
- Artificial Intelligence
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More like this: all 745 launches in ai agent runtime environments →
Could you build this?
No Providing persistent, sandboxed Ubuntu microVMs with sub-2-second boot times, disk-level snapshot forking, and low cost demands deep Linux kernel virtualization and bare-metal server infrastructure.
What it would actually take: A real version requires building a custom hypervisor orchestrator on bare-metal fleets using Firecracker or QEMU/KVM, integrated with Linux cgroups, overlayfs/ZFS for copy-on-write disk snapshots, and virtual desktop streaming (WebRTC/X11/VNC). It demands custom networking infrastructure (BGP routing for dynamic IPv4/IPv6 allocation, virtual TAP devices) and distributed node management (Rust/Go). This necessitates senior systems engineers with virtualization, hypervisor, and distributed systems infrastructure backgrounds.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 248 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #120 of 249 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 264 days after the earliest competitor.
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- SwarmAgent · ph · 2026-09-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
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- Shellbox · hn · 2026-01-12 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- AgentOS · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- natbox.io · ph · 2026-10-31 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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