GhostBox
Borrow a disposable little machine from the Global Free Tier
Details
- External ID
- 47975472
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- GhostBox
- Website domain
- ghost.charity
- Launched
- May 1, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 126
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9337641357027464
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
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.
Enrichment
- Theme
- indie hacker passion projects
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- disposable virtual machines on demand
- Manually corrected
- False
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
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 283 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #22 of 284 (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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- List stuff to borrow for your people, anonymously · hn · 2026-08-12 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.46
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- No other launches for this product.
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