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

https://x.com/barnabymalet

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

machine0.io
96 points·by bwm·last month·37 comments

Show HN: Reusable MCP Playbooks for AI Agents

github.com
9 points·by bwm·9 months ago·2 comments

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

director.run
11 points·by bwm·last year·2 comments

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

14 points·by bwm·last year·6 comments

comments

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

It'll click faster if you learn with an agent!
bwm
·last month·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
·last month·discuss
Thanks! I'm so happy to be building this :)
bwm
·last month·discuss
Soon!
bwm
·last month·discuss
It's funny, because my homelab is exactly where this started :)
bwm
·last month·discuss
Would love to join the next one!
bwm
·last month·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
·last month·discuss
You could point your agent at the machine0 CLI and ask it to :)
bwm
·last month·discuss
It's not possible to modify the VM outside of the flake :)
bwm
·last month·discuss
Thank you!
bwm
·last month·discuss
Always happy to meet others that are working with NixOS :) I've just added the License - it's MIT.
bwm
·last month·discuss
Been great having you :)
bwm
·last month·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
·2 months ago·discuss
NixOS VMs for agents: https://machine0.io
bwm
·9 months ago·discuss
Yes you can! Just add the filesystem MCP server: https://director.run/registry/filesystem
bwm
·last year·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
·last year·discuss
Thank you! Feel free to let me know if you need help getting it working!