DigitalOcean has introduced a marketplace setup that configures a complete infrastructure stack for Y Combinator's open-source QM tool on a unified bill. The automated bundle provisions core compute, session memory, file storage, and serverless inference alongside sandboxed managed agents in public preview. This deployment allows teams to flexibly integrate diverse models and tools such as Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, or Pi.
Key points
The marketplace deployment consolidates fragmented infrastructure across various vendors…: The marketplace deployment consolidates fragmented infrastructure across various vendors into a single cloud bill.
Development teams retain broad flexibility to operate preferred harnesses and models incl…: Development teams retain broad flexibility to operate preferred harnesses and models including Pi, OpenCode, Codex, or Claude Code.
Utilizing built-in sandboxing ensures emerging startups retain total control over their p…: Utilizing built-in sandboxing ensures emerging startups retain total control over their proprietary data and system infrastructure.
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Y Combinator built QM, a multiplayer agent harness for Slack and the web, to run agents across its own teams, from accounting and legal to engineering. In July, YC open-sourced it so any startup could do the same. Starting today, DigitalOcean offers the first one-click deployment for QM from the DigitalOcean Marketplace.
“We made QM open source so companies can own the agents that run their business. DigitalOcean makes it easy to get started. In one click, a team has QM running with sandboxes, inference, data and storage already in place, and the time they’d have spent on setup goes into building their company,” said Joshua France, Head of YC Labs, Y Combinator.
What one click sets up
Running QM has meant assembling a stack across providers. The DigitalOcean Marketplace deployment sets up all of it at once, on one bill:
A Droplet for QM’s core service
Managed Agents for isolated sandboxes
Serverless Inference, with no extra API key
Managed PostgreSQL for sessions, memory and the job queue
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