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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
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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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