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Founder machine0 (YC S26). Previously CTPO Upflow (YC W20).

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Show HN: machine0 – Persistent NixOS VMs You Control from the CLI

machine0.io
96 points·by bwm·الشهر الماضي·37 comments

Show HN: Reusable MCP Playbooks for AI Agents

github.com
9 points·by bwm·قبل 9 أشهر·2 comments

Show HN: The simplest way to use MCP. local-first. 100% open source

director.run
11 points·by bwm·السنة الماضية·2 comments

Show HN: Director – Local first, open source MCP Gateway

14 points·by bwm·السنة الماضية·6 comments

comments

bwm
·قبل 7 أيام·discuss
Awesome! Been great watching this product improve so quickly, can't wait for what's next :)
bwm
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
You retain the IP as long as you keep the VM. If you delete it, you'll loose the IP.
bwm
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
Yes, it's ideal for this!
bwm
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
You could start here: https://github.com/fdmtl/machine0-nixos

It'll click faster if you learn with an agent!
bwm
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
Yea, I totally get it. The thing is agents change the game. You no longer need to worry about the learning curve or how best to implement.

Just point your agent at a machine0 VM and say "make a machine that does X", then you get code you can use to build on any nix box and you'll always get the same result.

Once you experience this, it's hard to go back to a "traditional" OS, you'll want to nixify everything :)
bwm
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
Thanks! I'm so happy to be building this :)
bwm
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
Soon!
bwm
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
It's funny, because my homelab is exactly where this started :)
bwm
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
Would love to join the next one!
bwm
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
I'm also a big fan of proxmox! Would be happy to help you extend machine0 though :) Happy to chat about your requirements over email: [email protected]
bwm
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
You could point your agent at the machine0 CLI and ask it to :)
bwm
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
It's not possible to modify the VM outside of the flake :)
bwm
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
Thank you!
bwm
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
Always happy to meet others that are working with NixOS :) I've just added the License - it's MIT.
bwm
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
Been great having you :)
bwm
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
Thanks! Yup, one of the benefits of defining your VMs as code using Nix, is that you can take that code to any supplier, and you're guaranteed exactly the same build.
bwm
·قبل شهرين·discuss
NixOS VMs for agents: https://machine0.io
bwm
·قبل 9 أشهر·discuss
Yes you can! Just add the filesystem MCP server: https://director.run/registry/filesystem
bwm
·السنة الماضية·discuss
Yes, this is something you'll be able to implement the middleware functionality that's on our roadmap.

MCP also has an upcoming feature called Elicitation that you might find interesting: https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/draft/client/e...
bwm
·السنة الماضية·discuss
Thank you! Feel free to let me know if you need help getting it working!