Launch HN: machine0 (YC S26) – Persistent CPU and GPU VMs from the CLI

 (machine0.io)

13 points | by bwm 1 hour ago

4 comments

  • prodtorok 2 minutes ago
    Basic question:

    What are you doing here that my agent couldn't do with: AWS, GCP, Hetzner, DigitialOcean?

    Quick read is this is some simple api abstraction? or you're even brokering that compute? Which i would want, why?

  • averylostnomad 8 minutes ago
    When you say suspendible, do you mean that I could make a VM, configure it by installing packages and libraries, then pause it?

    And resume it later with the full disk ready to go? No billing during the inbetween time?

    That’d be huge, but seems wild. How can you economically keep the storage between active sessions?

  • benswerd 29 minutes ago
    What is the hardest part of building this for you?
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    • bwm 21 minutes ago
      I have a payments background. So maintaining a very high bar on security, reliability and performance as usage scales is super important.
  • rvz 48 minutes ago
    Does this internally use AWS or is this your own self-hosted environment?
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    • bwm 38 minutes ago
      Hi! It sits on top of DigitalOcean. We also have BYOC on the roadmap.

      This gives you the best of both worlds: agent native, CLI-first DX with the reliability and performance of a traditional cloud.

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      • benswerd 29 minutes ago
        What made you choose digital ocean?
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        • bwm 24 minutes ago
          Their machines are good & they have a partnership program that's fast and compatible with the model.