Fountain – OSS API to give your app a computer it can talk to

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Building tools for engineering teams running a bajillion Claude Code sessions, I kept hitting the same problem. To build the apps I wanted, I needed long-running processes that could scale to 0 when idle, resume quickly and retain their files and context. That meant I had to own the machine lifecycle, sandbox setup, credential handling, and communications plumbing. A bunch of stuff that isn't core to the products I wanted to build, but I needed all of it to make the product work.After several attempts to build directly on Fly Machines and reimplement this layer in each app, I threw my hands up. There was ANOTHER missing abstraction. Thankfully Fly.io shipped Sprites.dev, which gave me the co

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