[indigodaddy]

I might use this if it supported any old cloud or VPS, and was at most $10/mo. The fact that you have decided that this platform should only live in your own custom cloud is unappealing to me.

Or, open source it and let us run it on our own VPS and keep your expensive cloud for those who want to pay. As it stands would never consider it.

[nab]

Thanks a ton for the feedback. Yeah, this is something we'll try to solve in the long term. One of the things that makes this work really smoothly for setup and speed is the ability to have a template box that you can instantly snapshot and fork (disk and RAM) to spin up new machines. There aren't many sandbox providers that do that well for running a full app and development environment, but I'm sure there will be more over time. And the per-second pricing means that you only pay when your agent is running.

You could use VPS, but spinning up and down boxes on inactivity takes a long time, and making changes to the template for new machines is less trivial there. If you're only paying for 1 VPS box, then you lose the "multiple independent machines" benefit, and I imagine things start to get more expensive even in the VPS world when you have 10 of them running at the same time (one per thread).

[dpark]

Don’t bother listening to people who give you feedback that your product should be free. They aren’t going to buy your product no matter what you do.

[indigodaddy]

Pretty sure you could accomplish this in a large physical server or even a huge resource VM (that has KVM passthrough) with some sort of microvm technology? Then that would obviate the need for "multiple cloud instance per coding thread", it would just be a microvm on the large server.

Then again, I'm just the guy running his mouth, and you guys are the ones actually doing the work :)

BTW, looks very polished and thought-through, I may have to still give it a try!

[dregitsky]

Nope you're exactly right - we're using microVMs today (Firecracker VMs via E2B) and running that same shape but on customer-owned machines is definitely one approach we're looking into.

And thank you!

[aliclark]

I'm building something like this that you can run in your own cloud!

https://flexenv.com/

It's nowhere near advanced as boxes.dev but it's built on the premise of running on any cloud. Indeed I have it running on two different bare metal server providers and I'm about to add a third (Azure) as I'm using my day job as my first customer.

Can I grab your contact details and schedule a demo?

[tastyeffectco]

you may checkout sandboxd project, it allow you ti run on your own vps plenty of sandboxes for differents usages : https://github.com/tastyeffectco/sandboxd