Start
$5a month
One agent on one repo, all night long
- vCPU
- 2
- RAM
- 4 GB
- disk
- 50 GB
- Internet
- 50 Mbit
Ship the side project from a $5 server that stays on
Get Ubuntu with Docker, sudo, an HTTPS preview URL and your coding agent ready at login. Code from any browser, the library computer included. $5 a month, cancel from the dashboard.
From $5 a month · Docker and sudo included · Cancel from the dashboard any time
Your laptop is the whole infrastructure, and it is tired
Docker eats the RAM, the fan spins up, and the project only runs where the laptop is. Show it to a friend and you are screen-sharing localhost.
A VPS means an evening of setup and a pile of config to maintain before you write a line of product.
A weekend build
- Sat 10:00
The box is ready
Pick Start, a name and an agent. Ubuntu 26.04 with Docker, Node 24 and Python 3.14 waits at login.
- Sat 10:05
The agent builds, you steer
Ask OpenCode or Claude Code for the first version. Postgres runs in Docker on the same box.
- Sat 16:00
Open it on your phone
Your dev server has an HTTPS address on detachbox.dev. Make the port public and send it to a friend.
- Sun
Keep going from anywhere
Laptop, phone, a borrowed computer: the same tabs, the same scrollback.
What $5 gets you
A real server for the price of a coffee
2 vCPU, 4 GB, 50 GB and sudo on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, running around the clock.
Every agent, on the plan you already pay for
Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode and Gemini CLI are installed. Or run Claude Code on Z.ai or DeepSeek with your own key.
A link instead of localhost
Every dev server gets an HTTPS address with hot reload, private until you make it public.
Break it, reset it
Wreck the box with an experiment and rebuild it from a clean image with one button.
The box for this job
Start · $5
Start's 2 vCPU, 4 GB and 50 GB run a web app, its database and an agent together for $5.
- Box
- side-project
- Plan
- Start · 2 vCPU · 4 GB · 50 GB · $5/mo
- Agent
- OpenCode
- Tabs
- 2
- Services
- postgres:18
- Preview
- https://3000-side-project.detachbox.dev
- Runs
- Around the clock, lid closed
Questions about this
Is there a free tier or a student discount?
Start is $5 a month for the whole machine, students included. Every box is paid, so no miners share your CPU.
Can I run a cheaper model than Claude or GPT?
Yes. Pick Claude Code · Z.ai or Claude Code · DeepSeek as the box's agent and put your own API key on the box. OpenCode reads the same keys.
What does reset do?
It rebuilds the box from the current clean image and erases everything on it, so push your code first. Your SSH keys and connected accounts come back on their own.
The parts of the box this job uses
More jobs for a box
Ship the side project from a $5 server that stays on
Start a box, hand the agent the job and close the tab. Come back to finished work.
Start my boxCharged when the box starts · Cancel from the dashboard; the box runs to the end of the paid month