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Posted by achairapart 12/26/2025

Exe.dev(exe.dev)

https://blog.exe.dev/meet-exe.dev

https://exe.dev/docs/how-exedev-works

https://exe.dev/docs/pricing

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Havoc 12/27/2025|

Looks like it's AWS backed judging by IPs. Or at least the proxy part

mrs6969 12/27/2025||

just to be clear, this is total resources for all the vm right ?

like you give 2 cpu. 8gb memory for 20vms. Which I believe you wont be able to use 20 of them at the same time if they share 2 cpu only

0pteron 12/28/2025|

Why do you think that? the VMs are more like containers so yeah you can run 20 at once but they will all share 2 cpu

rouanza 12/27/2025||

very cool, my only reason for not using it is latency. recommendation: look up user's ip and geo location, spin up VM in a datacenter with lowest latency.

rewgs 12/28/2025||

So it's...cloud servers? What am I missing here?

_init_wasfine 12/27/2025||

Looks like a trap at first. Who succesfully connecter ?

srfrog 12/27/2025||

I'm confused, what is this? Cloud Vagrant ?

beeboop0 12/29/2025||

here's the issue

1. the home page should have a link to all docs

2. about page docs link should be a link to all docs, not a link to itself

GalaxyNova 12/27/2025||

Is there a reason for the lack of IPv6 support?

crawshaw 12/27/2025|

[exe.dev co-founder here] It is planned! The reason we have not got to it yet is it needs to be very different than IPv4 support. We have spent a lot of time on machinery to allow `ssh yourmachine.exe.xyz` work without having to allocate you an IPv4 address. The mechanisms for IPv6 can and should be different, but they will also interact with how assigning public static IPv4 addresses will work in the future.

We do not want to end up in the state AWS is in, where any production work requires navigating the differences between how AWS manage v4 and v6. And that means rolling out v6 is going to be a lot of work for us. It will get done.

I added a public tracking bug here: https://github.com/boldsoftware/exe.dev/issues/16

finalhacker 12/27/2025||

I like it. Great cli design. its so cool!

jeff-hykin 12/28/2025|

I guess I'm the only one that appreciates the extremely minimal site design. Main page was interesting, clicked about, understood the idea, clicked login, enjoyed having no password, added a passkey, spun-up a server.

Did have an issue with auto-generated server name being taken (and similar names being taken). So there could be even less friction on that aspect. But I like the idea of not talking/listing features or showing diagrams, just give me access.

I mean I do need to know pricing, usage limits, uptime etc. But just let me easily find that after giving access.

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