Box offers the simplest, cheapest cloud computers for agents, thought for builders of agentic platforms & software factories. Run 'box new' in your terminal, in 2s get a beefy ubuntu VM, with admin rights, a desktop, ssh access. At $0.036/hr it is 10x less expensive than the likes of E2B, Daytona, Modal, so you can run more agents, or run them longer. Run up to 1000 concurrent boxes fully self-served, or ask us for more, with same-day support from the founders.
2 years ago, I worked at the European Space Agency, scaling their black holes & binary stars research efforts.
At that time, GPT 4o already helped us find many optimizations that made the code more scalable. But to test them, our agents needed a cluster of cloud compute, which we had to wait 2 months to get. AI may work fast but compute provisioning is slowing it down.
After leaving, I spent 10 months building cloud coding agents, which needed cloud computers too, so I tried many self-serve options for "computers for agents" and "AI sandboxes".
But there was no fit, they were optimized for bursty, short-lived scenarios on containers rather than full computers where anything just works...
... all while being super expensive, high multiples of what the same compute is worth in the average datacenter in Europe.
So 2 months ago, we built and launched box on X, our on-demand computers for agents, super cost-efficient and powerful.
Now our computers for agents have already run for 10 years in just 2 months, growing steadily every week.
Today, they already power many agentic platforms, software factories, cybersecurity audits platforms, with real customers in production.
box launched on Product Hunt on July 22nd, 2026 and earned 237 upvotes and 50 comments, placing #5 on the daily leaderboard. Box offers the simplest, cheapest cloud computers for agents, thought for builders of agentic platforms & software factories. Run 'box new' in your terminal, in 2s get a beefy ubuntu VM, with admin rights, a desktop, ssh access. At $0.036/hr it is 10x less expensive than the likes of E2B, Daytona, Modal, so you can run more agents, or run them longer. Run up to 1000 concurrent boxes fully self-served, or ask us for more, with same-day support from the founders.
On the analytics side, box competes within Developer Tools and Artificial Intelligence — topics that collectively have 990.5k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how box performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
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fmerian
Hello Product Hunt,
2 years ago, I worked at the European Space Agency, scaling their black holes & binary stars research efforts.
At that time, GPT 4o already helped us find many optimizations that made the code more scalable. But to test them, our agents needed a cluster of cloud compute, which we had to wait 2 months to get. AI may work fast but compute provisioning is slowing it down.
After leaving, I spent 10 months building cloud coding agents, which needed cloud computers too, so I tried many self-serve options for "computers for agents" and "AI sandboxes".
But there was no fit, they were optimized for bursty, short-lived scenarios on containers rather than full computers where anything just works...
... all while being super expensive, high multiples of what the same compute is worth in the average datacenter in Europe.
So 2 months ago, we built and launched box on X, our on-demand computers for agents, super cost-efficient and powerful.
Now our computers for agents have already run for 10 years in just 2 months, growing steadily every week.
Today, they already power many agentic platforms, software factories, cybersecurity audits platforms, with real customers in production.
Try box and let us know how it goes :) https://box.ascii.dev