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Skipbox

Cheap, fast GitHub Actions runners with unlimited minutes

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Skipbox runs your GitHub Actions jobs on your own Linux VM, kept between jobs, so Docker layers, package caches and installed tools are still there on the next run. Credentials, the workspace and every container are wiped after each job. A flat monthly price with unlimited minutes: $39 for 4 vCPU / 8 GB. Install the GitHub App and change one line to runs-on: skipbox. 7-day free trial, no card. Private repositories only.

PH · launched Nov 11, 2026 · 72 upvotes (top 2%) · 0 views

Niche: git management and workflow tools · 221 launches, 10 in the last 7 days ▼ -23% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Developer
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product
  • Software Engineering
  • Developer Tools
  • GitHub

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Could you build this?

Partial Orchestrating GitHub Actions self-hosted runners on VMs with billing is vibe-codeable, but keeping VMs reused between jobs while still isolating customers and wiping credentials is a real security problem.

What it would actually take: The build involves provisioning VMs (for example, on Hetzner or AWS) and registering ephemeral or persistent GitHub runners via the API and webhooks, with per-job cleanup and billing. The hard part is the security boundary: reusing a VM across jobs means a malicious workflow could leave persistent state or escape Docker, so a real version needs isolation design (microVMs or per-tenant hosts), careful cleanup, and security review.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 122 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #7 of 123 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 368 days after the earliest competitor.

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