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introducing boat
the best cloud VMs for agent swarms, CI, hillclimbing, software factories, personal assistants, artefacts hosting oh and rendering very cool 3D I guess?
boat.dev
introducing boat, the best sandbox infra for agents
> full VMs, up to 2k concurrent self-serve
> desktop + browser included
> super low prices
claude designed & rendered this video on a cluster of boat VMs
try it: boat.dev
boat retweeted
Boundless Defensive Access is now on @offensesh
Security teams can run abliterated models inside Offense.sh's disposable sandboxes @boatdotdev for authorized security testing, starting with DeepSeek V4.1 Flash.
Give your agent a security task & get back a report with findings and evidence.
i like it when you blow bottles of champagne on me
we'll be christening the boat hackathon's boat on the 14th at noon!
come and join us, I'll be there: luma.com/pyvwf13l
boat retweeted
today we're launching offense: the security toolbox for coding agents. offense.sh
your agent already writes the code, runs the tests, and opens the PR.
offense lets it do the security work in the same loop, before anything ships.
what it can run:
> on every PR: dependency audits, source checks, secret scanning, github actions review
> on your infra: containers and IaC
> on a running app: API testing and fuzzing from your openapi spec, injection checks, exposure checks
> when you want depth: a pen test agent in a disposable sandbox, with your app running inside it
opengrep, gitleaks, trivy, schemathesis, ZAP, nuclei and more, behind one CLI.
everything comes back as evidence your agent can read, fix from, and retest.
every report also says what was not tested.
built on top of boat.dev
hosted starts at $20/mo.
pilot access is open -> offense.sh
boat hackathon who dis
First Boat Hackathon in SF at Pier 9!!
Thanks @AniC_dev @boatdotdev @mynameisyahia @getcontextdev @jperla @nytokenexchange go to BoatHackathon.com to code aboard and ship something that makes waves on the Historic Klamath!!!
boat retweeted
other actors in the sandbox space often try to attack us on stability and speed
but we're the only ones transparent enough to publicly show you uptime feature by feature, hour by hour AND fluctuation of key performance metrics / p99s over time
contrary to some bigger providers with plenty outages and nothing on their status page about them... if you use them you know
status page linked in our landing page or over there (will update domain next thing I promise):
status.ascii.dev
our resume cold starts / filesystem snapshot restore should now feel way faster
we recently had a period of extremely fast growth, notably thanks to @theo, that caused some stability and speed issues, I'm deeply sorry for it
thankfully our VMs remained up >99.95% of the time
but we experienced severe slowdowns on filesystem snapshot restore speed due to congestion on the storage and poor optimization
happy to announce the situation is now stable, fixes have been shipped and the speed is back to normal, but we still want to cut it massively soon!
now also VM state is cached for some time to allow instant fast stop -> resume cycles, typically great for chat apps/personal assistants
graphs below show you uncached full restore times, to compare with other providers please consider their uncached times as well (not their "I resume state in 20ms" claims which are cached times)
our stop/resume and snapshot system is built on object storage and FUSE. it allows us to store your files for cheap, for long, at scale, and with extremely good persistence & restorability guarantees (we don't lose anything even for months)
as you edit files in your VM the changes are saved gradually in the background, even if you don't explicitely ask for a snapshot
and when you resume we get you a fresh VM, mount the whole disk via FUSE so files appear to be virtually there instantly, while we download them from storage
also we never want you to lose work:
if the VM fails to snapshot and you stop it, we stop billing you, but keep the VM up, retry snapshotting, email you, and if we persist we manually intervene
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this is all just the tip of the iceberg, there are still ways to cut restore time by multiples, and remove a bunch of bugs that remain, @luaroncrew is on it
boat is the best sandbox provider
boat retweeted
Our users report bugs without ever leaving @mausbot_
and our cloud agent has usually opened the fix before we've read the email.
A user sees something broken and just tells their bot in the chat.
The bot asks a follow-up or two, then sends a bug report with all the context
it lands in our inbox, and a cloud agent picks it up. It runs 24/7.
tests the build on a @boatdotdev machine
It attaches a screenshot from the virtual machine in the PR itself (insane btw)
and we review and merge
boat just reached 1M ARR
we just reached 1M ARR with boat.dev
it was our best case scenario for the entire YC batch, yet it took only 2/3rd of it to happen
slowly then all at once, we grew from 0 to 1M ARR in 22 months over 6 pivots:
0 -> $10k ARR in 16m, 5 pivots
$10k -> $100k ARR in 4m, 1 pivot
$100k -> $200k ARR in 1m
$200k -> $1M ARR in 1m
we already got way more in rev run rate btw, subscriptions are just a fraction of our total revenue
now road to $100M!
if your cloud coding agents run on boat VMs
you're gmi
conductor cloud is shutting down on Nov the 13th in just 8 days!
lots of you will now go on to build your own cloud software factory
there is no better cloud sandbox/VM provider than boat.dev for that:
> inexpensive (0.036/h for 4c 8gb)
> super high single core perf CPU
> devtools + desktop pre-installed
> docker inside preinstalled
> can run an android emulator
> harnesses controllable from outside
> supports claude / codex sub
> secrets management
> agents & api secrets proxying
> github integration + ci support
> full VM, super on top of CVEs
we wrote a guide you can feed your agent, to one-shot the entire factory using our CLI and APIs
boat.dev/blog/software-facto…
and we benchmarked to show boat is the least expensive and most convenient sandbox for software factories:
boat.dev/blog/integration-be…
lmk if you need any help
boat retweeted
conductor cloud is shutting down on Nov the 13th in just 8 days!
lots of you will now go on to build your own cloud software factory
there is no better cloud sandbox/VM provider than boat.dev for that:
> inexpensive (0.036/h for 4c 8gb)
> super high single core perf CPU
> devtools + desktop pre-installed
> docker inside preinstalled
> can run an android emulator
> harnesses controllable from outside
> supports claude / codex sub
> secrets management
> agents & api secrets proxying
> github integration + ci support
> full VM, super on top of CVEs
we wrote a guide you can feed your agent, to one-shot the entire factory using our CLI and APIs
boat.dev/blog/software-facto…
and we benchmarked to show boat is the least expensive and most convenient sandbox for software factories:
boat.dev/blog/integration-be…
lmk if you need any help
boat retweeted
Beefy box setup in your office😁 I’ve got a MS-A2 setup as our main CI machine now, payback is less than a month from our old GitHub runner costs.
For overflow though and on demand, I use and 100% recommend @boatdotdev
that's the real pic right here
if i die you all die
uh checkmate
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boat retweeted
This feels magical. Running @t3dotcodes on @boatdotdev using Codex and Claudes subs 🥳🤯
Well done @AniC_dev
