Launch HN: Hoplite (YC S26) Charges $99/Seat to Run Coding Agents in the Cloud — HN Questions Whether Real Infra Ports
Hoplite (75 points, 60 comments) ports local dev setups — sessions, memories, MCP servers — into cloud sandboxes so developers review product output instead of code, built on a custom in-house harness rather than Claude Code or Codex, with AWS plus Temporal for workflows, Modal for filesystem-snapshot sandboxes, and PlanetScale, targeting 5-minute P95 project setup. Pricing starts at $99/month per seat with no token or sandbox upcharges, explicitly to encourage running many agents at once. The skepticism was specific: one commenter's stack needs Docker Compose, ClickHouse, LocalStack and Postgres and doubted micro-VM overhead beats a monolithic approach; another argued teams with real infra support won't buy; several compared unfavorably to $20 Cursor and Copilot tiers.
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