Funny timing seeing the AWS TUI at #1 today. I’ve actually been working on this for a while and planned to release today regardless.
CloudMasters is designed to be the "One TUI to rule them all" -- but specifically for shopping and renting boxes (VPS, bare metal, etc.).
Why only boxes?
Because abstracting PaaS/managed services across clouds is usually a leaky anti-pattern. But a Linux box is a Linux box. I wanted a way to instantly compare compute prices across AWS, Azure, GCP, Hetzner, and Vultr without opening 5 browser tabs.
My favorite find so far:
While testing, I learned that you can get a box in Mumbai for 0.1 cent/hour. We use local SQLite to cache offers and fetch fresh pricing in the background. Of course I guess that's a spot price!
How it works:
It’s a TUI wrapper over the standard cloud-provider CLIs. We translate your intents into native CLI commands.
Safety: We keep a daily gzipped activity log of every command issued, so you have a full audit trail.
Status: This is v1~v2. Since pricing APIs vary wildly, some data might be approximate. I wouldn't use this for critical production infra yet, but it's great for dev environments or finding the cheapest GPU -- when we break that info out.
Business Model:
This is a paid product with a free trial. I want to build a sustainable tool where you are the customer, not the product.
Happy to answer questions! Feedback welcome here or at cloudmasters@browserbox.io.
If something is broken for you throw it in a comment and I will take a look over the next few days. Should work on Windows, macOS and Linux.
keepamovin•1mo ago
Funny timing seeing the AWS TUI at #1 today. I’ve actually been working on this for a while and planned to release today regardless.
CloudMasters is designed to be the "One TUI to rule them all" -- but specifically for shopping and renting boxes (VPS, bare metal, etc.).
Why only boxes?
Because abstracting PaaS/managed services across clouds is usually a leaky anti-pattern. But a Linux box is a Linux box. I wanted a way to instantly compare compute prices across AWS, Azure, GCP, Hetzner, and Vultr without opening 5 browser tabs.
My favorite find so far:
While testing, I learned that you can get a box in Mumbai for 0.1 cent/hour. We use local SQLite to cache offers and fetch fresh pricing in the background. Of course I guess that's a spot price!
How it works:
It’s a TUI wrapper over the standard cloud-provider CLIs. We translate your intents into native CLI commands.
Safety: We keep a daily gzipped activity log of every command issued, so you have a full audit trail.
Status: This is v1~v2. Since pricing APIs vary wildly, some data might be approximate. I wouldn't use this for critical production infra yet, but it's great for dev environments or finding the cheapest GPU -- when we break that info out.
Business Model:
This is a paid product with a free trial. I want to build a sustainable tool where you are the customer, not the product.
Happy to answer questions! Feedback welcome here or at cloudmasters@browserbox.io.
If something is broken for you throw it in a comment and I will take a look over the next few days. Should work on Windows, macOS and Linux.