Terse - Durable Actors
Infrastructure for Multiplayer AI Products
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We provide an army of tiny servers to help you build incredible and cost efficient Multiplayer AI at scale. It's an open source alternative to Cloudflare's Durable Objects. Each resource or agent gets it's own micro-vm with a co-located SQLite DB. It can only process one request at a time making it concurrency safe. Onboard each one, is a websocket server. Allowing clients of any form to connect and listen for events on the resource.
PH · launched Nov 9, 2026 · 71 upvotes (top 2%) · 0 views
Niche: serverless computing platforms · 19 launches, 6 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Model & infra
- Developer
- AI-native
- Commercial product
- Open Source
- Software Engineering
- Developer Tools
- GitHub
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More like this: all 19 launches in serverless computing platforms →
Could you build this?
No This is a self-hosted infrastructure platform that runs per-agent microVMs with co-located SQLite and single-request concurrency, which requires serious systems and distributed-infrastructure expertise.
What it would actually take: A real version needs a microVM orchestration layer (for example Firecracker or similar) with fast cold starts, networking, isolation, and autoscaling, plus a routing layer that pins each actor to a single host. It also needs durable storage with failover and billing or metering. Doing this well takes a team with deep experience in distributed systems and virtualization, not a vibe-coding builder.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 189 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #13 of 190 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 366 days after the earliest competitor.
- Durable Actors · hn · 2026-10-06 · 52 upvotes · similarity 0.74
- Peren · ph · 2026-10-01 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Durable Actors: The perfect primitive for Multiplayer AI and Agent Coordination · yc · 2026-10-29 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Cloudflare Containers · ph · 2026-10-02 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Cloudflare Wallets · ph · 2026-08-05 · 274 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- SQLite for Rivet Actors · hn · 2026-02-28 · 45 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Maritime: Fully managed cloud for running AI agents at scale · yc · 2026-10-09 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- pi-durable-edge · github · 2026-10-10 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.41
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