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Your users' abandoned generated apps cost you nothing

You run a "describe an app, get an app" product. Users generate something on a Saturday, click around, and never come back. Of 10,000 generated apps, 9,000 haven't received a request in a month.

On any platform that charges per app or per running sandbox, those 9,000 are a problem you solve with policy: sleep after seven days, delete after thirty, email the user, handle the complaint when they return for something you removed.

On Hoody every generated app is a container on your bare metal. All 10,000 were cloned from the same base, so they share disk blocks copy-on-write, and the kernel's page cache loads their identical binaries once. The 9,000 idle ones burn no CPU. The thousand active ones use the cores you rent. Nothing sleeps; nothing needed to.

Hosting what your users abandon is free, so you never have to decide when they've abandoned it.