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Yes, you can and definitely should use Pulumi or other cloud infra for production use cases. The way I envisioned cloudrouter was to give coding agents throwaway VMs, use it to close the loop on its task, and then stop/delete it afterwards...
We have concurrency limits for sandboxes and some of the larger GPUs have guardrails put into place. Contact us when you get to those limits!
Thanks for the feedback! Adding the info into the website now.
Plan on wrapping other sandbox providers besides e2b, modal... hence the name cloudrouter!
Re: monolithic tools. I think having template overrides for the user could solve this issue -- although it is a bit tougher to implement. I wanted a monolithic tool because it optimizes for faster startup times and just works but it does sacrifice configurability for the user.
Re: Docker template. I understand the Docker critique. So, the primary use case is an agent uploading its working directory and spinning it up as a dev environment. The agent needs the project files, the dev server, and the browser all in one place. If these are separate containers, the agent has to reason about volume mounts, Docker networking, etc — potentially more confusion, higher likelihood that agents get something wrong. A single environment where cloudrouter start ./my-project just works is what I envisioned.
Re: SSH host keys. SSH never connects to a real host. It's tunneled through TLS WebSocket via ProxyCommand. Also the hostname is fake, we have per-session auth token on the WebSocket layer, and VMs are ephemeral with fresh keys every boot. So, SSH isn't wide-open. We don't expose the SSH port (port 10000); everything goes through our authenticated proxy.
Totally fair point. For me it was just a nice primitive to have -- just one command gives the agent a VM with SSH, file sync, browser, GPU ready to go. Instead of dealing with cloud account setup, security groups, SSH keys, and other shenanigans. For cloudrouter, the dependencies/Docker/VNC/Juypter Lab come pre-baked so you don't need to think about configuring VM environment setups...
Hey Nick! I figured out the root cause and have pushed a fix. Could you update the package and try again?
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austinwang115 on Friday February 13, 2026 @02:02PM
from the show-hn dept.
https://cloudrouter.dev/
I've been working on CloudRouter, a skill + CLI that gives coding agents like Claude Code and Codex the ability to start cloud VMs and GPUs.When an agent writes code, it usually needs to start a dev server, run tests, open a browser to verify its work. Today that all happens on your local machine. This works fine for a single task, but the agent is sharing your computer: your ports, RAM,...
Interesting, biotech stocks have been notoriously hard to predict because their business model revolves around science, and it’s hard to know when the science is right. Depending on the situation, I think sentiment could potentially be a misleading/confounding variable here…
Wow this is pretty interesting. Excited to see the benchmark!
pushed a fix, should work now
Just prepend 0 in front of github in your PR link and it should work
This is a very interesting idea that we’ll definitely look into.
This makes reading long PRs not instantly LGTM… now the heatmap guides my eyes so I know where to look.
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austinwang115 on Monday January 06, 2025 @11:50AM
from the show-hn dept.
https://bi.new
Bin is an AI business intelligence analyst that turns data into dashboards. Our goal is to make creating dashboards simpler to do than no-code alternatives like PowerBI and Tableau while preserving the powerful customization abilities of raw SQL and Python.Here’s a quick demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fsh8M3hIjDA.Customers from our previous product wanted custom dashboards but didn’t...
Yes, we have integrations with Google Sheets, so you can write directly there.
We're using a spreadsheet UI because it's familiar to millions of office workers and easy to understand the step-by-step progression of a workflow. The wording that you proposed makes a lot of sense to us.
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austinwang115 on Thursday August 15, 2024 @03:55PM
from the self-post dept.
Hey HN! We’re Austin, Lawrence, and Wesley from Manaflow (https://manaflow.ai). Manaflow is a spreadsheet where each column represents a step instruction of a task and each row represents an AI agent executing a case of the task. With one click, you can execute thousands of tasks involving data retrieval, gluing APIs, and taking actions.Here’s a video demo:...