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Hi guys, we are super excited about the launch of remote.superhq.ai - remote control for your dev environment. please do check it out and share your feedback.

i too wanted to purchase 5-6 3D printers and start a business - basically my version of goose farming after i leave the software dev space for the greater good of mankind :)

I would start with one printer, only print PLA, then talk to your neighbors and family about it and focus on printing things they want and use.

The card stands were a lot of fun, but most of what I print now are dog toys and gifts for my niece and nephew. It's nice to roll up to a family holiday, and have something interesting and unique you can just hand out.

You could get started doing that for just a couple hundred bucks and some desk space!


I've got enough equipment and skills already to run an etsy shop when I retire, but looking at the economics, I concluded that it would just turn an enjoyable hobby into a chore, and I didn't want to do that.

Someone built a project called AgentFM that tries to use a peer-to-peer network of everyday computers to run AI workloads, similar to what SETI@home used to do for crunching radio telescope data.

+1. i built something similar called shuru.run because i wanted an easy way to set up microVM sandboxes to run some of my AI apps, and firecracker wasn't available for macOS (and, as you said, it is just too heavy for normal user-level workloads).

Nice work on Shuru — I remember looking at it when I was researching this space. You went with a Rust wrapper on Apple’s Virtualization framework right?

I have been working on something similar but on top of firecracker, called it bhatti (https://github.com/sahil-shubham/bhatti).

I believe anyone with a spare linux box should be able to carve it into isolated programmable machines, without having to worry about provisioning them or their lifecycle.

The documentation’s still early but I have been using it for orchestrating parallel work (with deploy previews), offloading browser automation for my agents etc. An auction bought heztner server is serving me quite well :)


bhatti's cli looks very ergonomic! great job!

also, yes, shuru was (still) a wrapper over the Virtualization.framework, but it now supports Linux too (wrapper over KVM lol)


Is there a way to store configuration/data of applications running on a Bhatti VM on the host, ala Docker volumes?

Yes! Checkout the bhatti volume

They are ext4 blocks which exist independent of sandboxes.


Wow, that’s quite nice! I see that’s at VM time, any plans to add the ability to add them after the fact? I am really enjoying bhatti!

Yes, having a light-weight solution for local devices as well is one primary goal of the design. Another one is to make it easy for hosting, self or managed

its a really innovative idea! very interested in the subsecond coldstart claim, how does it achieve that?

@binsquare basically brute-force trimmed down unnecessary linux kernel modules, tried to get the vm started with just bare minimum. There are more rooms for improvement for sure. We will keep trying!

With this approach I managed to get to sub-10ms start (to pid1), if you can accept a few constraints there's plenty of room!

Though my version was only tested on Linux hosts


would be interested to see how you do it, how can I connect with you - emotionally?


Start with booze; always works :)

nice! for most local workloads, it is actually sufficient. so, do you ship a complete disk snapshot of the machines?

Yes. files on the disks are kept across stop and restart. We also have a pack command to compress the machine as a single file so that it can shipped and rehydrated elsewhere

had to wait for two minutes just to refresh the PR page. their UI was always a bit clanky, this new wave of "AI productivity" is just making it worse.

thanks! depends on your machine but it is surprisingly lightweight since it uses Apple's Virtualization.framework under the hood. I have comfortably run 3-4 sandboxes on an 8GB Mac. you can also configure CPUs, memory and disk per sandbox from the settings.


glad you liked it! I am currently exploring options for Linux support. will share an update soon.


lume is a much more full featured VM manager, macOS and Linux VMs, API server, prebuilt images, python SDK etc. shuru is intentionally minimal.


apple container is more of a docker-style workflow, OCI images, registries, etc. shuru is just micro VMs with checkpointing, much simpler scope.


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