Dev replaces hundreds/month in Modal sandboxes with an idle Mac Mini at home
andersonbcdefg · x · 2026-10-19
Benjamin Anderson published a blog post on turning his mostly idle Mac Mini into a self-hosted sandbox backend for coding agents. He was spending hundreds of dollars every month on Modal sandboxes and decided to spend a weekend building his own sandbox provider, solving both the cost and the idle-hardware problem at once. A practical reference for anyone looking to cut sandbox costs for coding agents by leveraging local hardware.
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