alt Hacker NewsNon open source and non local SAAS sandboxes are offensive to even try to launch. No one needs this and the only customers will be vibe coders who just don't know any better. There are teams building actual sandboxes like smolmachines, podman, colima and mre. At least be honest and put the virtualisation tech you are using as well as that its closed source SAAS on the landing page to safe people time.
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> Non open source and non local SAAS sandboxes are offensive to even try to launch. No one needs this and the only customers will be vibe coders who just don't know any better.
This is simply not true, but also not a very charitable take.
Your comment could have been "I prefer these open source alternatives:" but you chose to be a hater.
There's nothing wrong with offering services that people find useful.
Apparently it’s offensive to even try to make things people want
> No one needs this
VMWare was acquired for $69Bn.
Our users are platforms, and many of the best already build on us.
Self hosting is a valuable feature but our technology is unfriendly to small nodes — it will not work on consumer hardware. Many of the optimizations we spend our time on only seriously kick in above 2TB of storage and above 500GB of RAM.