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Your post resonates; reminiscent of the Ink&Switch talk from local first conf that I watched today.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "What even is an OS now?"}, {"id": 766035664, "item_id": 47877229, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47877229", "by": "pclark", "date": "2026-04-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love fly, but it adds up when I have a bunch of small things", "excerpt": "I think I am interested in this? I run a bunch of small web apps, currently as fly.io machines. I love fly, but it adds up when I have a bunch of small things that I want isolated \u2014 I wish I could have even smaller Fly instances. Exe.dev seems like a good middleground where I can allocate the compute from tiny to large. (?)", "context": "runs a bunch of small web apps", "use_case": "hosting small web apps", "switched_from": "", "story": "I Am Building a Cloud"}, {"id": 746226896, "item_id": 46639181, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46639181", "by": "drob518", "date": "2026-01-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love Fly.io. That crew is sharp.", "excerpt": "Sounds cool. I love Fly.io. That crew is sharp. The article could do with a few pictures to illustrate the layers. I\u2019ve read it, but I can\u2019t say that I understand the implementation.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Design and Implementation of Sprites"}, {"id": 745010816, "item_id": 46563176, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46563176", "by": "dtkav", "date": "2026-01-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "fly.io is doing really good work. I've super enjoyed building our product on their platform.", "excerpt": "fly.io is doing really good work. I've super enjoyed building our product on their platform. I love fly-replay combined with super fast start-up. I've been thinking a lot about how to run agents (and skills) securely while giving them a lot of powerful capabilities. I recently used their macaroons library to turn arbitrary API keys (e.g. for stripe's API) into macaroons. 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I love Fly in no small part to your writing for its blog. Wild to see what feels like a complete changing of the guard at Fly, at least from the outside. Your post resonates; reminiscent of the Ink&Switch talk from local first conf that I watched today.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "What even is an OS now?"}, {"id": 797006865, "item_id": 49812929, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49812929", "by": "HerrlichDigital", "date": "2026-09-23", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Let's see if this affects my setup.", "excerpt": "Let's see if this affects my setup. But maybe there are more tweaks i can do to cut costs if it rises to much. In the past i moved from a managed PostreSQL from fly.io to a self hosted version on a fly.io machine and it saved me around 30$ a month.", "context": "", "use_case": "hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Fly.io 2026 Pricing Update"}, {"id": 766054528, "item_id": 47878408, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47878408", "by": "indigodaddy", "date": "2026-04-23", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use both fly and exe.", "excerpt": "I use both fly and exe. Exe isn't really \"docker image as the app\"-focused like fly, but if you want to sort of mimic the fly deploy process you kinda sorta could make it work for you I would think. 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(?)", "context": "runs a bunch of small web apps", "use_case": "hosting small web apps", "switched_from": "", "story": "I Am Building a Cloud"}, {"id": 760986673, "item_id": 47561667, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47561667", "by": "tpaschalis", "date": "2026-03-29", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I deployed a small app in Fly.io which takes a link, bundles it as an epub", "excerpt": "Nice write up! After a couple of attempts I settled on a a different approach for my old Kobo. It can connect to Dropbox so I deployed a small app in Fly.io which takes a link, bundles it as an epub and uploads to the right folder. Day-to-day all I use is a bookmarklet", "context": "", "use_case": "hosting small app", "switched_from": "", "story": "I turned my Kindle into my own personal newspaper"}, {"id": 755597123, "item_id": 47224820, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47224820", "by": "pclark", "date": "2026-03-02", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "commit the branches to Fly.IO and send me domains to test things", "excerpt": "Ok, I'll bite and run the HN skepticism guantlet. I have an OpenClaw setup with a Claude API token and Qwen local model, running on an M4 Mac Mini with 32GB RAM. 1. At 7AM and periodically throughout the day it checks my calendars (work, parenting schedule, personal), a hyper local weather station, and some specific news topics \u2014 and sends me a summary and throughout the day updates if anything significant happens. 1", "context": "", "use_case": "hosting test deployments", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenClaw Surpasses React to Become the Most-Starred Software Project on GitHub"}, {"id": 754662434, "item_id": 47166402, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47166402", "by": "HiTechK", "date": "2026-02-26", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "We use Fly.io for globally distributed deployments.", "excerpt": "Hi HN, I\u2019m the maker of EZClaw. I like OpenClaw since it launched. It\u2019s one of the most powerful ways to run a private AI assistant, but I noticed a recurring problem: unless you\u2019re comfortable with Docker, environment variables, and cloud providers, it\u2019s hard to get it running and keep it stable. I built EZClaw to bridge that gap. It\u2019s a managed hosting platform that handles the entire deployment lifecycle. You just", "context": "", "use_case": "deployment hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: EZClaw \u2013 Deploy OpenClaw in Minutes"}, {"id": 746226896, "item_id": 46639181, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46639181", "by": "drob518", "date": "2026-01-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love Fly.io. That crew is sharp.", "excerpt": "Sounds cool. I love Fly.io. That crew is sharp. The article could do with a few pictures to illustrate the layers. I\u2019ve read it, but I can\u2019t say that I understand the implementation.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Design and Implementation of Sprites"}, {"id": 745010816, "item_id": 46563176, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46563176", "by": "dtkav", "date": "2026-01-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "fly.io is doing really good work. I've super enjoyed building our product on their platform.", "excerpt": "fly.io is doing really good work. I've super enjoyed building our product on their platform. I love fly-replay combined with super fast start-up. I've been thinking a lot about how to run agents (and skills) securely while giving them a lot of powerful capabilities. I recently used their macaroons library to turn arbitrary API keys (e.g. for stripe's API) into macaroons. I route requests for an upstream host (like st", "context": "", "use_case": "hosting our product", "switched_from": "", "story": "Code and Let Live"}]}