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Show HN: Skill that lets Claude Code/Codex spin up VMs and GPUs

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Re: Show HN: Skill that lets Claude Code/Codex spin up VMs and GPUs

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Post by hxseven »

Thanks for sharing this interesting project and approach!

One suggestion for improvement: Add some more info to your website/GitHub about the need for a provider and which providers are compatible. It took me a bit to figure that out because there was no prominent info about it. Additionally, none of the demos showed a login or authentication part. To me, it seemed like the VMs just came out of nowhere. So at first, I thought "Cloudrouter" was a project/company that gave away free VMs/GPUs (e.g. free tier/trial thing). But that seemed too good to be true. Later, I noticed the e2b.app domain and then I also found the little note way down at the bottom of the site that says "Provider selection" and "Use E2B provider (default)". Then I got it. However, I should mention that I don't know much about this whole topic. I hadn't heard of E2B or Modal before. Other people might find it more clear.

For those that are wondering about this too, you will need to use a provider like https://e2b.dev/ or https://modal.com/ to use this skill, and you pay them based on usage time.

Re: Show HN: Skill that lets Claude Code/Codex spin up VMs and GPUs

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Post by lawrencechen »

hxseven wrote: post #21

Thanks for sharing this interesting project and approach! One suggestion for improvement: Add some more info to your website/GitHub about the need for a provider and which providers are compatible. It took me a bit to figure that out because there was no prominent info about it. Additionally, none of the demos showed a login or authentication part. To me, it seemed like the VMs just came out of nowhere. So at first,…

Right now, all usage is routed through us, hence `cloudrouter login` is required for now. Plan on adding bring-your-own cloud/key, but having something that's fast to setup is hard since we need to pre-build a template that includes VNC, browser, VSCode, worker daemon, etc...

Re: Show HN: Skill that lets Claude Code/Codex spin up VMs and GPUs

#24

Post by lawrencechen »

killingtime74 wrote: post #19

Myself I already pre-provisioned a kubernetes cluster and it just makes new manifests and deploys there. Less dangerous, less things for it to fail at. The networking is already setup. The costs are known/fixed (unless you autoscale in the cloud). It's much faster to deploy.

Fair enough, is this mainly for running services or do you use it for dev loop too?

Re: Show HN: Skill that lets Claude Code/Codex spin up VMs and GPUs

#25

Post by austinwang115 »

hxseven wrote: post #21

Thanks for sharing this interesting project and approach! One suggestion for improvement: Add some more info to your website/GitHub about the need for a provider and which providers are compatible. It took me a bit to figure that out because there was no prominent info about it. Additionally, none of the demos showed a login or authentication part. To me, it seemed like the VMs just came out of nowhere. So at first,…

Thanks for the feedback! Adding the info into the website now.

Re: Show HN: Skill that lets Claude Code/Codex spin up VMs and GPUs

#28

Post by killingtime74 »

lawrencechen wrote: post #24
killingtime74 wrote: post #19

Myself I already pre-provisioned a kubernetes cluster and it just makes new manifests and deploys there. Less dangerous, less things for it to fail at. The networking is already setup. The costs are known/fixed (unless you autoscale in the cloud). It's much faster to deploy.

Fair enough, is this mainly for running services or do you use it for dev loop too?

both. local k8s (Rancher desktop) for devloop integration tests, remote k8s for running services. Helm chart to bootstrap cluster services like CRDs and Cloudflare tunnel.

Re: Show HN: Skill that lets Claude Code/Codex spin up VMs and GPUs

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Post by lawrencechen »

kovek wrote: post #27

I think railway deserves a mention here: https://docs.railway.com/ai/mcp-server

Railway is awesome! Pretty different use cases though - Railway's MCP is for deploying and managing persistent services (git-push-to-deploy). CloudRouter is about ephemeral sandboxes: the agent spins up a throwaway VM, does its work, and tears it down.

We are definitely inspired by Railway though!

Re: Show HN: Skill that lets Claude Code/Codex spin up VMs and GPUs

#30

Post by austinwang115 »

notepad0x90 wrote: post #26

How are you guardrailing it? The first thing I thought of was how cryptominer bots love to spin up lots of gpu-enabled vms (malware). Are there any cost or resource hard-restrictions?

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!
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