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Re: Exe.dev

#11

Post by crawshaw »

llmslave2 wrote: post #7

I'd be interested if I knew who was behind the company and could reasonably trust that I wasn't going to get my data stolen etc.

Hello, I am behind this company. My co-founder Josh Bleecher Snyder has also been hanging around the internet for a while. There are several of us hacking away. It is very early days, we have a lot of work to do to earn your trust but it is my intention to do so.

Re: Exe.dev

#12

Post by ilaksh »

crawshaw wrote: post #8
ilaksh wrote: post #5

Are they actually VMs, or are they containers? Some kind of special container like gvisor? Firecracker microvms?

Hello, an exe.dev person here. They are VMs, on a crosvm-derived VMM. So I consider them "actually VMs", though we do not currently support custom kernels. You can do VM things in there, like create TUN devices, etc.

Thanks. So KVM I assume. Congratulations on your launch. Any plans for public IPs?

Re: Exe.dev

#13

Post by crawshaw »

satiric wrote: post #4
Alifatisk wrote: post #3

> exe.dev is a subscription service that gives you virtual machines, with persistent disks

Thanks. I feel like I expect home pages to contain at least a modicum of information. And three seconds spent thinking about accessibility would have told them that light gray links on a white background are a terrible idea...

Apologies for the vagueness of the home page, we were not expecting to be here today. There is a little more info in our first blog post https://blog.exe.dev/meet-exe.dev and docs, but far needs to be written.

(We have also built some interesting tech behind this that we are excited to write up, I have a doc two pages long of blog posts we want to write.)

Re: Exe.dev

#14

Post by crawshaw »

ilaksh wrote: post #12
crawshaw wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hello, an exe.dev person here. They are VMs, on a crosvm-derived VMM. So I consider them "actually VMs", though we do not currently support custom kernels. You can do VM things in there, like create TUN devices, etc.

Thanks. So KVM I assume. Congratulations on your launch. Any plans for public IPs?

Thank you! Yes, KVM. And public IPs are very useful and we want to do them. We will have to charge and/or limit them, unlike VMs, unfortunately, because IPv4 is scarce. (I am busy trying to buy some right now.) You can follow along here: https://github.com/boldsoftware/exe.dev/issues/6

Re: Exe.dev

#15

Post by tekacs »

crawshaw wrote: post #11
llmslave2 wrote: post #7

I'd be interested if I knew who was behind the company and could reasonably trust that I wasn't going to get my data stolen etc.

Hello, I am behind this company. My co-founder Josh Bleecher Snyder has also been hanging around the internet for a while. There are several of us hacking away. It is very early days, we have a lot of work to do to earn your trust but it is my intention to do so.

Pulled from your Github, just to make it easier for folks to make sense:

> David Crawshaw - before this, CTO and co-founder of Tailscale

> Josh Bleecher Snyder - was a Director of Engineering at Braintree, amongst other things

Re: Exe.dev

#18

Post by j0lol »

Other than a quick boot, what separates this from going on a VPS provider and spinning up servers?

Re: Exe.dev

#19

Post by ruined »

montroser wrote: post #9

Some actual details here: https://exe.dev/docs/how-exedev-works https://exe.dev/docs/pricing

this post is downvoted, but these links are the meat everyone is complaining about missing

Re: Exe.dev

#20

Post by eleventen »

I signed up and started a VM. Didn’t really expect the default chat interface at boot. I’m currently on my iPad and would probably have bookmarked it for later, but now I’m playing with it. Cool idea :)

Edit: it comes out of the box with screenshot capabilities. The defaults on this are very well considered. Im impressed within the first 15 min. Edit2: this is very neat. I will be recommending it to my non-coder friends who don’t really have the local setup to use Claude but would like to try a Claude-like tool.

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