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Woah so cool! A bit tangential but I think a lot of us on HN are open source fans, do you have advice on how to find an open source idea which has potential to grow into a large project like yours?

I'd suggest look at your own problems. Tomas (my co-founder) and I built E2B back in 2023 because we needed a cloud computer for our agent back then.

What led you to use Firecracker over something like Kata containers?

We wanted a cloud computer for our agent that would be as close to a metal box as possible. No docker, no containers, etc.

Many of our users run containers and even k8s or k3s inside the sandbox. This is much easier to do when you have a VM and not container inside the VM

Jason Calacanis (famous venture capitalist, podcaster, early investor into Uber) said in the last all-in that there were humans doing stuff for you in the Instinct.

I also thought all the permissions I had to give it were scary, given how big of a single point of failure it'd be.

Can you share whether it's possible for your customer to have automated indians doing jobs as part of their implementations of the VM?

I deleted my Instinct after one day of productive work and I hope they finished my data.