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Re: Exe.dev

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Post by dang » Sat, Dec 27, 2025, 5:45 AM UTC

montroser wrote: post #9

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

Thanks! We've added those links to the top text above.

Re: Exe.dev

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Post by dang » Sat, Dec 27, 2025, 5:52 AM UTC

malux85 wrote: post #17

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"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Exe.dev

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Post by copperx » Sat, Dec 27, 2025, 6:02 AM UTC

This is freaking fantastic. However, as a community college instructor I would like to have this self-hosted on a computer in campus. Excluding the CLI niceties, etc., it shouldn't be to hard to get a similar setup with Docker et al, right? (not for production)

Re: Exe.dev

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Post by crawshaw » Sat, Dec 27, 2025, 6:03 AM UTC

bhavaniravi wrote: post #48

crawshaw wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hello, exe.dev person here. I have not used E2B (though I really like their web site), though it looks like there are quite a few differences. Our disks are persistent (without manual snapshotting), we have a TLS proxy by default with built-in auth and link sharing. It also looks like they have many features we do not have (yet). I believe the target use is also quite different. You can use exe.dev VMs for running yo…

Thanks for the response. In the "How exe works" page, it's mentioned that exe runs on bare metal with Kata containers, how is it different from firecracker? Were there any advantages?

The mention of Kata is out of date, we are fixing that, thanks! Our underlying VMM is very similar to firecracker (same upstream source). We believe our advantages are in how we run it. Several blog posts are in the works about technical details!

Re: Exe.dev

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Post by dominicm » Sat, Dec 27, 2025, 6:07 AM UTC

Dang, everything about this feels really well considered. Semi-throwaway, nearly bare-metal machines that I can put on the internet with basically 0 config? I'll take

Re: Exe.dev

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Post by crawshaw » Sat, Dec 27, 2025, 6:12 AM UTC

dominicm wrote: post #55

Dang, everything about this feels really well considered. Semi-throwaway, nearly bare-metal machines that I can put on the internet with basically 0 config? I'll take

[exe.dev co-founder] Or don't throw them away! The disk persists. And thank you!

Re: Exe.dev

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Post by jdndbene » Sat, Dec 27, 2025, 6:36 AM UTC

ssh exe.dev gives me login required. What am I doing wrong?

Re: Exe.dev

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Post by fragmede » Sat, Dec 27, 2025, 6:44 AM UTC

If we're just throwing out ssh targets, there's also funky.nondeterministic.computer

Re: Exe.dev

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Post by adtac » Sat, Dec 27, 2025, 6:48 AM UTC

i got to try exe a while back and i have to say, the "Login with exe" [1] is probably the most magic thing i've seen since tailscale :)

[1] https://exe.dev/docs/login-with-exe

Re: Exe.dev

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Post by kosolam » Sat, Dec 27, 2025, 7:03 AM UTC

Err it doesn’t work on mobile