Comment by Imustaskforhelp

8 hours ago

Thanks, I know exactly something which has been in my mind to build which can be made possible with this.

Basically any golang/any language cli application preferably-static can be dropped and ran in ghostbox plus xterm in browser (and additionally cloudflare tunnels) or perhaps directly to give a web link.

Anyone can then click on that web link to then try out the cli application. Think jujutsu and others too and they can do this upto 90 minutes.

Feel free to pick up on this idea as more importantly than not, I would personally love to see an idea like this, even something with asciinema to finally show how an app feels and looks.

Can you please tell me more about what is the structure behind Ghostbox and on what service does it run upon? Hetzner/OVH or something else? I would be interested to know more about the infrastructural decisions behind it and does it run on firecrackers, quite so many questions!

This is a really cool project, thanks for making this and have a nice day!

Thanks, bud. Right now it just uses spins up an ephemeral machine from GitHub Actions. I mostly used GH myself so have not added any more providers yet - but the Global Free Tier is trending up. Will add more in future.