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Hey HN, I’m Vishnu from Agent37 (https://agent37.com). We build sandboxes for running AI agents at under 10% of the cost of most sandbox providers. Our customers spend an average of $0.37/month per sandbox.
You can view a video walkthrough of the product here: https://youtu.be/DK5ISR2tbNo
We started as one of those OpenClaw wrapper companies back in February (yup.. judge me). In time we added more and more harnesses.
One of the goals I had at the time was to offer a free plan to users, so as to gain more market share. But it was too cost prohibitive to do it right away. Especially since we were bootstrapped and servers were running on my savings.
Today we’re actually able to offer the free plan thanks to the optimizations we’ve made since. Over 90% of the new signups we have are just free plan users and they host their personal Hermes/Openclaw/Claude Code etc on our cloud. Our infrastructure cost for the free sandboxes averages around $0.05 to $0.10 per user per month.
Here are some techniques that have worked for lowering cost:
* When you look at agent harnesses, they have certain patterns in the way they consume CPU and RAM. They need CPU in bursts when they’re initializing or performing certain tasks, but beyond that, they’re often not peaking. They need more RAM for things like browser and computer-use tasks. Once the task is done, usage often comes back down. This is a key insight in lowering cost, so by efficiently managing the CPU/RAM utilization we could lower the cost.
* Secondly, you have to skip the hyperscalers when renting the Hosts. I worked at Amazon before and they have 80-90% margins on VMs. So it was an obvious choice once I looked at the prices to go one layer down to vendors like Hetzner and OVH. This alone was probably one of the biggest cost levers in reducing the cost.
* Thirdly, you also want to pick a technology stack that lets you efficiently cache and share resources across the host. We use gVisor for better utilization and fast boot times. It lets us use available host memory across sandboxes without reserving a full VM’s memory for each one. There are tradeoffs: our gVisor sandboxes don’t support workloads like Docker-in-Docker or Android emulators.
* And finally the size and shape of the hosts you buy also makes a big difference. RAM is typically the bottleneck when it comes to cost and not the CPU. This is specifically true for agent harness workloads, so when buying servers, we optimize for packing more RAM into a given host.
We also host full VM sandboxes for workloads that need them, including running Docker at a slightly higher price, but they are still pretty low cost given the rest of the techniques.
Overall, my learning has been that just by focusing on a niche of sandbox usecases, and optimizing for it you can give a much better cost/performance tradeoff.
I was previously a Senior Software Engineer at Amazon and an Engineering Manager at Quantcast. I built Amazon's internal AI chatbot, Diya, and their internal coding harness, Ziya.
If you’re someone who’s looking to run agents on sandbox and are exploring a sandbox vendor, come check us out. We’re particularly looking for developers building messaging agents to try their workloads and challenge the limits and economics of our platform.
Thanks!
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Hi HN! I'm Saarth. I'm in 9th grade, and I built Atticus.
Atticus is an incredibly fast and cheap Mac assistant that can do tasks for you. You hold down Control-Option-Space, speak or type your task, be it complex or a simple browser search, and Atticus will get on it.
The interesting part is that simple tasks, like opening apps, playing a Spotify playlist, or web queries, don't touch AI, and instead are processed locally and typically finish in under a second. For example, prompting Atticus to open apps takes around 0.08 seconds, sometimes even finishing before you finish your sentence, sort of like Jev.
Any tasks that are more complicated will be sent to Claude via claude -p, meaning you never need an API key and Atticus will run on your existing Claude Pro or Max plan. By using this approach, costs are also cut down immensely, with, on average, tasks costing a fraction of a cent.
To achieve Atticus' speed, it remembers shortcuts from each task it completes. When it does a task right for the first time, it saves its steps and replays them the next time without AI. For example, a workflow of creating a new meeting took about 30 seconds the first time around. Atticus then logs the exact steps to memory and takes 5-8 seconds on the next pass. To add to this, Atticus also learns about you as you use it more and from what's on your computer, including your name, your apps, and things you want it to remember, personalizing its answers to you.
To combat the safety concerns over giving an AI unrestricted access to your device, Atticus has toggleable restrictions, so before anything is deleted, sent, bought, or written to a file, the user is prompted before that action.
Some features I'm currently working on include a meeting copilot that capitalizes on Atticus' speed, allowing Atticus to listen in on meetings and answer questions in real time as they come in, personalized to the context of the meeting and what it knows about you.
To run Atticus, macOS 26 or higher is required for its voice transcription features. The voice transcription is also done locally by macOS.
Atticus is free, open source, and also very fresh, and I'm completely aware of its many rough edges, which is why I'd love to hear from everyone about what breaks and what you guys would like to see Atticus do!
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