smol machines
Ship software faster with portable, self contained virtual machines.
About smol machines
Smol machines solve the problem of "but app works on my machine" by shipping the machine. Smol machine enables devs to ship a lightweight virtual machine with any software, similar to how Electron ships an entire browser with the web app.
Public traction evidence
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- GitHub
smol-machines/smolvm
smol-machines/smolvm. YC S2026 snapshot lists smol machines with website smolmachines.com; repo owner and homepage match smolmachines.com.
- Hacker News
Show HN: Smol machines - subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines
Show HN: Smol machines - subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines
- X
🤏☁️smol cloud is now live (beta) Get a virtual computer for yourself or your agent in seconds. 1. No need to configure CPU/MEM, it is ...
🤏☁️smol cloud is now live (beta) Get a virtual computer for yourself or your agent in seconds. 1. No need to configure CPU/MEM, it is dynamically allocated up to a 4cpu/8gb upper limit today. 2. You can integrate with the smol cli to run hundreds of agents in separate cloud...
- X
A new release landed for smol machines with v1.5.0. 1. CUDA support, through api-remoting. This is pretty unique work because I don't th...
A new release landed for smol machines with v1.5.0. 1. CUDA support, through api-remoting. This is pretty unique work because I don't think any existing options are doing this today. This basically enabled the local <-> remote GPU support meaning you can change and end point...
- X
Did an in person install and walked out feeling like I'm a part of the team @kamikariat's team is working on some neat stuff
Did an in person install and walked out feeling like I'm a part of the team @kamikariat's team is working on some neat stuff
- X
One of my users sent me their evaluation of smol machines between V1.4 -> V1.5. smol machines vs colima on macs is: - ~1/8 of the time i...
One of my users sent me their evaluation of smol machines between V1.4 -> V1.5. smol machines vs colima on macs is: - ~1/8 of the time it takes to get to docker ready - ~1/2 of memory usage - ~ 1/4 of disk usage Here's a snippet from their document:
- X
smolvm reaches v1.3: 1. support for windows native (beta) 2. updated kernel to 6.12.91 (newest security patches) 3. cuda support initia...
smolvm reaches v1.3: 1. support for windows native (beta) 2. updated kernel to 6.12.91 (newest security patches) 3. cuda support initial milestone reached There will be surprising launches every day this week.
- X
Late night release of the today is a smol cli tool: https://github.com/smol-machines/smol This is an opinionated tool that let's you cre...
Late night release of the today is a smol cli tool: https://github.com/smol-machines/smol This is an opinionated tool that let's you create/manage lifecycle of smolvm's both locally & remotely by signing into the smol cloud.