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bwm

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About bwm

Founder machine0 (YC S26). Previously CTPO Upflow (YC W20).

https://x.com/barnabymalet

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    Comment #48848664

    Awesome! Been great watching this product improve so quickly, can't wait for what's next :)

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    Comment #48548735

    You retain the IP as long as you keep the VM. If you delete it, you'll loose the IP.

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    Comment #48547106

    Yes, it's ideal for this!

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    Comment #48547063

    You could start here: https://github.com/fdmtl/machine0-nixos It'll click faster if you learn with an agent!

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    Comment #48546867

    Yea, I totally get it. The thing is agents change the game. You no longer need to worry about the learning curve or how best to implement. Just point your agent at a machine0 VM an…

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    Comment #48546638

    Thanks! I'm so happy to be building this :)

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    Comment #48546594

    It's funny, because my homelab is exactly where this started :)

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    Comment #48545820

    Would love to join the next one!

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    Comment #48545814

    I'm also a big fan of proxmox! Would be happy to help you extend machine0 though :) Happy to chat about your requirements over email: barnaby@machine0.io

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    Comment #48545761

    You could point your agent at the machine0 CLI and ask it to :)

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    Comment #48545052

    It's not possible to modify the VM outside of the flake :)

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    Comment #48544895

    Thank you!

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    Comment #48544862

    Always happy to meet others that are working with NixOS :) I've just added the License - it's MIT.

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    Comment #48544643

    Been great having you :)

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    Comment #48544303

    Thanks! Yup, one of the benefits of defining your VMs as code using Nix, is that you can take that code to any supplier, and you're guaranteed exactly the same build.

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    Show HN: machine0 – Persistent NixOS VMs You Control from the CLI

    Hi HN! Excited to launch machine0, a CLI that makes it easy to create, provision and snapshot persistent NixOS (& Ubuntu) VMs. You can think of machine0 as a modern VPS provider. V…

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    Comment #48087199

    NixOS VMs for agents: https://machine0.io

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    Comment #45771731

    Yes you can! Just add the filesystem MCP server: https://director.run/registry/filesystem

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    Comment #44552858

    Yes, this is something you'll be able to implement the middleware functionality that's on our roadmap. MCP also has an upcoming feature called Elicitation that you might find inter…

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    Comment #44534018

    Thank you! Feel free to let me know if you need help getting it working!

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    Comment #44534009

    Yup, this is exactly the problem we're solving with Director :)

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