{"id":109009,"title":"Cloud Agents • Alloy","tagline":"Codebase Sessions for Everyone, Not Just Engineers","body":"![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=109009\u0026key=user_uploads/1045840/6e090e72-2393-4677-ab33-dde28fb18b8c)\n\n### **Cloud Agents for Product Teams**\n\nAlloy is the world's first [cloud agents platform](https://alloy.app/cloud-agents) built for everyone, not just engineers:\n\n➤ Connect GitHub and run your real codebase in the cloud\\\n➤ Chat to build your feature ideas in minutes\\\n➤ View a direct preview, not a pixelated video stream\\\n➤ Push code and open a pull request in one click\n\n### **The story behind cloud agents**\n\nHey! I'm Simon Kubica, CEO of Alloy. I co-founded the company with Christian Iacullo after our time working at Canva and Atlassian. We founded the company with one mission: give product leaders new superpowers.\n\nWe started with prototypes that look exactly like your product, captured from the browser. But we kept hearing the same thing from our users: the prototype was never the finish line. The moment something looked right, PMs wanted it in the real product — and that meant handing it back to engineering and starting over.\n\nThe problem is that cloud agents today are built for engineers. Cursor, Devin, and Claude Code are powerful, but they assume you can configure environments, read diffs, and live in a terminal or IDE.\n\nWe felt that going from idea to pull request shouldn't require a development environment.\n\nSo starting today, it doesn't.\n\n### Get started with Cloud Agents\n\nWith cloud agents, you build with your actual codebase in the cloud: describe a change in chat, click through a live preview of your real app (not a pixelated remote desktop), share the session with a link, and open a pull request your engineers review in GitHub like any other change. Early users like [Rallied](https://rallied.ai/) and are already using Cloud Agents to ship PM-built prototypes directly to production.\n\nToday we're launching cloud agents to the YC community. Just visit the Alloy website to get started!","slug":"SMD-cloud-agents-alloy","created_at":"2026-08-04T14:29:27.961Z","updated_at":"2026-09-19T06:23:56.166Z","total_vote_count":6,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/SMD-cloud-agents-alloy","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=109009\u0026key=user_uploads/1045840/6e090e72-2393-4677-ab33-dde28fb18b8c","company":{"id":27840,"name":"Alloy","slug":"alloy","url":"https://alloy.app","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2fb9e41133c27d93650c2a1a32a03cc25066b8dd.png","batch":"Winter 2023","industry":"B2B","tags":["Design Tools"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/27840"}}