Barnaby (YC W20)

@ibuildthecloud Don’t!

I quit.

@svpino Don't fall for the hype - try before you buy on a machine0.io VPS

The “buy a Mac mini or you’ll never make it” crew moved on already. The whole “I’m making $10,000/mo with OpenClaw in a Mac Mini” was a grift, and it’s now dead. What’s the latest now? DGX Spark?

@aidaniil Few months old but very reliable (99.99% VM uptime SLA). Built by yours truly. Happy to answer questions here or over DM :)

@barnabymalet how fresh are they? I am a bit hesitant about using new infra companies

Is there a fast and reliable service to spin up full VMs in under a second? Everything we have tried so far is either fast or reliable, not both.

@marccampbell Agreed! It's why I built machine0.io :)

nix is the perfect tool for sandbox envs

@MartinGTobias It's complimentary. Use machine0 to experiment, or run a few in parallel :)

@barnabymalet I have a Mac mini.

Have not found a killer use case for openclaw. And it is too expensive to run. Might be time for Hermes. Any thoughts ?

@icanvardar That's why I built machine0.io :)

build products you would happily pay for if you weren’t the one building them

@levelsio @moeghashim You could try running with machine0.io. It's simpler, and designed for agents :)

@moeghashim VPS is on Hetzner not Cloudflare

Hey @levelsio What Cloudflare services do you use for your projects beside the VPS? I'm on Vercel and I want to work on Cloudflare for a new project.

@victor_bigfield No problem :) Please DM if you'd like any help with it.

@barnabymalet Thanks.

I'm a little late to the party what's the ideal setup i should grab for hermes ? which mac mini are we running?

@cuenca @levelsio If you like simple, you should try machine0.io. It let's you spin up a VPS with claude pre-installed with a single command. It also supports NixOS for reproducibility.

kudos to @levelsio for dropping simple and great tips, and 100% in agreement with his takes on “architecture.” Simple hosted server (I use OVH instead of Hetzner), straightforward php, html/css/js. Basic engineering will keep the cost of serving a page at 50ms if you do a good job on your db, and sqlite is a great choice. I always used mysql because that’s the one I started using 25 years ago and I got to know it pretty well, but sqlite is more attractive now with SSDs

@yuuzhou5g @DavidOndrej1 Thanks, fixed!

@barnabymalet @DavidOndrej1 😭😭😭

stop developing locally start developing on a VPS trust me

@trashh_dev NixOS, because your RICE will be deterministic & reproducible

what’s the best linux distro to rice like i have never talked to the opposite sex

@ImLunaHey Set one up in seconds with machine0.io

need to buy a vps for plausible, any suggestions?

@hthieblot Working on a CLI to manage VMs for AI agents: machine0.io

@ founders What are you building this week end?

@heyblake NixOS VMs for agents: machine0.io

Drop your project URL Let’s drive some traffic

@Tocelot @speedrun Why not just ask an agent to set up & manage an agent?

a16z @speedrun request for startups: GUIs for Agents we’re still in the MS-DOS era of agents today - CLI, terminal sessions, file directories deleted by openclaw etc. while a small slice of silicon valley are power users, we're SO early for the rest of the world at Speedrun, we’re looking for bold founders excited to bring the power of agents to normies everywhere. there's a whole slew of products to be built here - from agent builders to marketplaces to managed infrastructure one broad idea we’re excited about are visual abstraction layers for agents. if you don't know exactly what you want, a command line / chat interface is paralyzing - you need to see options 1 example - think of a GUI or visual command center inspired by strategy games (ex. Factorio) where agents and workflows are represented graphically. skills, tools, MCP connections, background processes, etc could all be configured and shown visually in a workspace on UX, strategy games have long perfected agent management. zoom to get a birds-eye view of your agents, batch and queue orders via shortcuts, assign agents in multiplayer etc. a well-designed agent command center would make multi-agent orchestration for normies feel easy & intuitive most folks today still haven't moved beyond ChatGPT. the potential is enormous - just as Windows unlocked mass-market use of personal computers, the right visual abstraction layer could unlock agentic work for everyone - from individuals to enterprise teams if you share our vision, we'd love to chat!

Claude Code feels like a compiler that compiles prompts into code. Still have to read the output, but perhaps not for long?