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We’re Fly.io, a public cloud platform that is both our favorite way to put an app on the Internet and our favorite way to safely let a frontier agent coding harness cook. This is a post about our company, the future, and Sprites, which are computers for agents that you can check out right now.
This is a complicated post. So I need you to promise me something: if you read past this introduction, you’ll read the whole rest of the way through. It’s an honor thing.
A couple months back, Theo Browne ran a video rating the “best place to host a new application in 2026”. Theo tends to say nice things about us. He did this time too. But then he concluded by saying that of all the providers he pays attention to, we were the one he was least confident would be around by the end of the year.
Well, fuck.
Theo startled us, because we’re in the middle of a run of strong quarters that have included the best financial months in the company’s history. But that take has been rattling around in my brain. It whacked me right on a raw nerve, about what we’re doing and where we’re going as a company.
Honestly, I should’ve seen this coming. Fly.io has been motoring along this year, but I’ve coasted a bit, letting the company smolder in an unresolved identity crisis.
I’m going to overshare some more in a second, but I won’t leave you hanging. So: we’ve raised a bunch more money. We’re launching a new iteration of Sprites, and focusing the company on them and the problem they solve. And I’m tagging in Scott Johnston as CEO.
Product-Market Fit
I started Fly.io with two clear principles that probably don’t matter anymore.
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