How Scaleway brought the first RISC-V servers to the cloud
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HN · launched May 12, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 89%) · 0 views
Niche: cloud and application hosting platforms · 146 launches, 8 in the last 7 days ▼ -53% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Hardware & robotics
- B2B
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
No This is a technical case study on provisioning bare-metal RISC-V server hardware and cloud platform infrastructure, not a vibe-codeable software application.
What it would actually take: Deploying cloud bare-metal RISC-V involves designing custom motherboard carrier boards, firmware/UEFI engineering for nascent RISC-V server chips, custom BMC development, automated PXE/iPXE network booting pipelines, and integration into a cloud hyperscaler's hypervisor-free provisioning and billing infrastructure. This requires extensive electrical engineering, firmware development, and data center hardware ops.
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Competitors
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Attention rank: #516 of 566 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 193 days after the earliest competitor.
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