boat

Persistent cloud Linux machines for AI agents, started and forked from one CLI

Y Combinator F26

What is boat?

boat is persistent cloud Linux machines for AI agents, started and forked from one CLI. ZeroCrew lists it after checking it works for a company with no employees.

boat gives each agent a full Ubuntu virtual machine in the cloud with SSH access, Docker, systemd and its own IP address, plus a virtual desktop you can open in the browser. Docker, VS Code, Chrome, the GitHub CLI, Rust, Node.js and Bun come preinstalled, and you can run Claude Code, Codex or OpenCode inside. One command starts a machine, another forks it from a disk snapshot so several agents can try different paths, and stopping a machine saves it and pauses billing. You can drive it from the CLI, an HTTP API or Python and TypeScript SDKs. Machines currently run in EU regions.

By ASCII.

Is boat good for a one-person business?

Yes, one person can run boat: you sign up and start without a sales call and you can export your data. ZeroCrew checked this on boat's own site.

Start alone: Self-serve; Sign up without a demo, says its site
Can I leave: Data export; From its own site
Connects with: 24 apps; GitHub, Google, Claude, ChatGPT

How big is boat?

215 websites link to boat, a domain rank of 262 out of 1,000. ZeroCrew checked the counts on November 9, 2026.

Websites linking and domain rank (0 to 1,000) from DataForSEO.

boat reviews

Founder reviews of boat are mostly positive, from 3 public posts ZeroCrew read and checked with a second AI model. Founders praise smooth cloud agent integration and economical virtual machines.

What people say elsewhere

Praised for

Smooth cloud agent integration
Economical virtual machines

Summarized by AI from 3 public posts on Hacker News, November 7, 2026. Not reviews from ZeroCrew founders.

Launch HN: Agent37 (YC F26) – Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agents Hacker News
Conductor is joining Meta Hacker News

What products are similar to boat?

Composio, Browserbase, and Superserve do the same job as boat (agent infrastructure). ZeroCrew files every tool by the job it does.

Composio by ComposioConnect Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor to 1,500+ apps, plus Instant tools for search, audio, video and browser with no keys to manageAppMCP

Browserbase by BrowserbaseWeb browsers in the cloud for your agents to use.AppMCPAI Grant batch 3

Superserve by SuperserveCloud sandboxes where AI agents run for minutes, days or weeks without losing their workAppMCPOpen sourceY Combinator F26

Airtable by AirtableA database you build like a spreadsheet, with AI fields.AppFree planMCPHas an agent

boat integrations

boat connects with 24 apps, including GitHub, Google, and Claude; 9 of them are listed on ZeroCrew too. ZeroCrew read the list from boat's own site on November 7, 2026.

Connects withGitHub, Google, Claude, ChatGPT, Anthropic, OpenAI, OpenRouter, LLM Gateway, DeepSeek, Kimi (Moonshot), Mistral, Grok (xAI)
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Is boat right for what you're building?

ZeroCrew's Agent Zero checks boat against its site, what founders say about it, and its competitors. The result: a yes, a no, or a better tool for what you describe. Free.