What boat is about
What makes it different
boat gives each AI agent a full Ubuntu virtual machine in the cloud โ SSH, Docker, a browser, persistent files โ that you can fork from a snapshot in seconds and run by the thousands. It bills by the second, only while the machine runs, from $20 a month after a 7-day free trial.
Founder Anicet Nougaret built boat in public: 22 months and six pivots to $1M ARR, with the first $10K taking 16 months and the last $800K taking one month. Growth came from posting the numbers on X โ no paid ads, no events, no sales team.
boat is a Y Combinator Fall 2026 company, based in Paris and run by a four-person team. It competes with E2B, Daytona, Modal and Vercel Sandbox mainly on price and speed โ its homepage leads with a third-party benchmark where it ranked second of 15 sandbox providers.
๐ Teardown
How boat makes money โ the problem, the price, the customers, and whether you could build it.
Read the teardown โ