powerful, affordable cloud VM fleets for agents 👉 https://xitter.cf/t.co/kx9WEgqzaY 👈 backed by @ycombinator (F26) & @fdotinc
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how to use boat.dev?
tell this to your agent:
"onboard me on boat.dev till we have a first VM up and then build a QA bot that sends me a fast demo video & report when I send a msg describing a feature on telegram, & can do multiple in parallel"
Introducing boat.dev
the VM sandbox with the fastest CPU
and the lowest price per hour
ideal for long-running or always-on agents
boat retweeted
this is how you should be stress testing your product before a launch
you spin up multiple bots with their own unique personalities on @mausbot_
give them their own @boatdotdev computers
then let them loose on your product, all at once, each attacking it from a different angle
and you watch every one of them on a live canvas
find what breaks before your customers do
>3000 boat enjoyers
together we're so strong
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boat retweeted
💸 today I invested in a new thing:
cpu compute is essential to all personal agent services. every muse, grok bot, & instinct session uses a cloud vm.
however, it's scarce. hyperscalers didn't plan their datacenter buildouts expecting a world where every earthly human is using dozens of cpu vms for ai agents.
my friend @AniC_dev founded @boatdotdev to solve this. he's locking in bulk cpu compute prices now so he can provide the best full vm sandboxes for years to come.
before this he was working on arbitraging hetzner (what was previously the cheapest compute on the market), visiting sf a ton, & building an audience of developers here on X. once i realized that cpu compute is going to become as scarce as gpu compute is already (after joining morph) i asked to invest immediately.
there's no longer a moat in software or intelligence, the only durable thing is compute ownership. if you agree with this then you should find ways to invest in things like boat such that you're long compute.
follow @boatdotdev to see what they will make
weekly billable usage growth on boat.dev cloud VMs is crazy
agents spawn more and more VMs but also make them run for longer than before
that billable usage being so much cheaper than on Modal, Vercel or Fly means we're saving our users 6 figures every week
boat retweeted
Saved 3+ hours on a large build by using 15 @boatdotdev VM machines in parallel, for less than a dollar... massive productivity unlock. Building out a skill to just use boat images for all CI/Builds in dev.
CI/Build bottleneck solution activated.
@AniC_dev
we're soon gonna need a bigger boat
weekly billable usage growth on boat.dev cloud VMs is crazy
agents spawn more and more VMs but also make them run for longer than before
that billable usage being so much cheaper than on Modal, Vercel or Fly means we're saving our users 6 figures every week
boat retweeted
beyond stunts, daily usage of boat.dev VMs for serious agentic usecases is growing like crazy
we're not only the best cloud VM infra for agents we're also the most affordable at scale
if you need cloud VMs for agent fleets there is literally nowhere better to go
spinning up 700 boat.dev cloud VMs and gpt 6 agents that play Minecraft multiplayer on them
700 desktops + codex + game instances boot & start playing from a disk snapshot in <10s on 2.8k vCPU 5.6TB of RAM
total VM cost for 15 minutes of this: $6.45
boat.dev is not just a very affordable cloud VM provider
it's also the most permissive and powerful
spinning up 700 boat.dev cloud VMs and gpt 6 agents that play Minecraft multiplayer on them
700 desktops + codex + game instances boot & start playing from a disk snapshot in <10s on 2.8k vCPU 5.6TB of RAM
total VM cost for 15 minutes of this: $6.45
boat retweeted
Say Good Bye to GitHub-hosted runners 👋
We moved our CI to @boatdotdev sandboxes to save 75% vs. Github runners AND cut out deployment time by 50%:
⚡ Unit tests: 7.1 → 4.0 min
🧹 Lint: 8.7 → 4.7 min
✅ 8,499 tests, now moving at lightning speeds
It took just a few hours with Opus 5.5.
Our GitHub Actions bill was on pace for ~$430/month.
That's over $5,000/year, and every backend PR still took 9 minutes to go live.
Now each CI job gets its own fresh sandbox, at 70% less cost.
It's unbelievable how fast we can experiment and swap code out!!!!
boat retweeted
The most underrated marketing move right now is optimizing for the AI agent holy sh*t moment
Nobody reads your docs anymore, they let their agents do that for them. And when an agent compares you against 5 competitors, it should see you as the best choice for a single reason.
@boatdotdev is one of the best examples I've seen. The whole moat they have, is that they're affordable, and they made sure every agent finds this info super easily:
- They make it super easy to see the pricing (aka their moat). 4 vCPU / 8 GB VM for $0.036/hour, billed per second
- They also have compare page prices the same machine on 15 other providers. E2B and Daytona are 9x, Modal is 21x. This lets the agent compare you against competitors even easier than before.
- All of it is plain text with an llms.txt, so an agent can read it
When I was personally comparing sandbox options for my app, I just threw in a link of boat, and my agent said "and it's billed by the second. That's kind of insane.". That's the moment you want agents to have on your product.
You can feed this post to your agent, and have it find one thing about your product that you will push heavily. This needs to be the reason why people choose your product over everyone else.
