Boxes.dev

Your cloud development environment

Engineers at companies like Meta, Stripe, Slack, and OpenAI use remote development machines for much of their day-to-day coding. For the rest of us, remote machines have never seemed worth the hassle. But with agentic coding (Claude Code, Codex, etc), the calculus changes:

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Agentic coding is better in the cloud

  • Remote machines never sleep, so your agents can keep working 24/7 even when you close your laptop
  • Your phone is just another client, so AI coding from mobile doesn't require convoluted laptop remote control

MicroVMs supercharge remote development

  • "Copying" the whole machine (filesystem and all) lets each coding agent chat get its own dedicated computer, with your dev env already set up
  • Machines can sleep/wake in seconds, so you can spin down when idle to keep costs low

Boxes.dev makes remote development feel local

  • Remote ports are forwarded to localhost, so you can open localhost:3000 in your browser and connect your database client to localhost:5432 just like local dev
  • Port forwarding is hot-swapped as you switch threads and machines, so you can easily test changes from each isolated environment
  • SSH support lets you edit code in VSCode and JetBrains IDEs with zero config
  • The built-in terminal in the desktop app gives you direct CLI access to each machine
  • Monitor resource use, view files, manage git, and more from our desktop app.