Founder Josh and his co‑founder announced today that they are launching exe.dev, a platform built to replace traditional cloud VM abstractions. After successful exits, the duo says frustration with current clouds—nested virtualization, costly remote block storage, and inflexible APIs—prompted them to create a service that hands developers raw CPU, memory and isolated VM capability. Their pitch centers on pure compute freedom.

The team argues that VMs tie resources to fixed CPU/memory bundles, forcing users to nest gVisor or manage reverse proxies just to run multiple instances. Remote block devices, once sensible for HDDs, now bottleneck SSD‑level IOPS, inflating costs to thousands per month. They also note that Kubernetes merely masks these limits, while agents powered by LLM technology still wrestle with the same cloud constraints.

Exe.dev solves the isolation problem by allocating raw CPU and memory pools, then letting users spin up lightweight VMs directly on that pool without vendor‑imposed hypervisor layers. The approach eliminates the performance penalty of nested virtualization and sidesteps expensive remote storage fees. Early testers report near‑bare‑metal speeds and simplified networking, suggesting a viable alternative to the entrenched cloud services model.