Cloud sandbox platform ascii box renames to boat over trademark issue
The cloud sandbox platform for agents, ascii box, is now boat, claiming it is 8–18x cheaper than leading providers and 40% faster than Daytona, with 60fps desktops and snapshots.
ascii box is now boat (http://boat.dev) the last 4 months pushing box have been crazy we shipped a cloud sandbox platform that: - is 8x to 18x cheaper than leading providers, saving our users >$2M / year at this rate - is 40% faster than Daytona, 2.6x faster than Modal on runtime benchmarks - offers full VMs with 60fps desktop, browser, forking, snapshots, up to 2000 VMs concurrent self-serve - grew to 350+ paying users, 6 figures ARR and is now growing +160% MoM - got us into YC F26 - and became popular enough to be noticed by trademark lawye... ah shit yes, it's sad & lame, call it however you want, but they're certainly right, and I appreciate they're letting us time to migrate away but like every storm, this won't sink us, it'll only strengthen our will! now it's time to spam post a thousand boat pictures and grow a brand of our own why boat tho? it's short, memorable, unique in our niche, http://boat.dev is a phenomenal domain (for $400), and no billion $ AI software co uses it but also it makes sense for our product increasingly, agents use our state of the art sandboxes not just to be standard, constrained and safe but mainly to do significant autonomous work, gain freedom, develop agency, achieve great discoveries, leave their mark on the world, find treasures for their captains (you) sandboxes shall be like vessels, motherships for the agents at the frontier now go build that agent fleet! (don't do piratry please) http://boat.dev