The surprising attention on sprites, exe.dev, and shellbox

Over the last few weeks, three new products have announced themselves on Hacker News to great success, each making the frontpage: Sprites (fly.io) with 508 votes and hit #7 exe.dev with 457 votes and hit #2 shellbox.dev with 316 votes and hit #4 All three have a very simple pitch: they will give you full access to Linux virtual machines to act as a sandboxed developer environment in the cloud. At…