GhostBox
Borrow a disposable little machine from the Global Free Tier
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I built this because I was always creating machines on GH actions to test builds on different OS, and I wanted a tight CLI that could do it. I always saw Actions as this great resources and ephemeral machines you could do dev work in just were a natural way for me to work, so this grew out of that workflow.I didn't expect it to blow up, so it wasn't 100% finished when I posted it. But it should stabilize pretty quickly.Happy to know what you think and talk about it.
HN · launched May 1, 2026 · 126 upvotes (top 7%) · 0 views
Niche: os virtualization and vm management software · 61 launches, 1 in the last 7 days ▼ -88% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Model & infra
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes The tool is a CLI wrapper that triggers GitHub Actions workflows and connects via Cloudflare Tunnels, ngrok, or Tor hidden services. A solo builder can easily vibe-code the CLI and workflow automation scripts.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Tilde.run, Fly.io, tmate, TeamPCP
Concerns raised: Violates GitHub Actions Terms of Service, Abuses free tier compute resources, Could enable cryptocurrency mining on runners, Security risks from running untrusted binaries, Disproportionate burden on GitHub servers
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Attention rank: #44 of 584 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 183 days after the earliest competitor.
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