What is Vibee?

Vibee is a service that lets you rent and manage persistent Linux servers using nothing but your SSH key. There is no signup form, no password, no web dashboard. The entire interface is a terminal UI (TUI) that you access by running ssh vibee.sh. Provisions hardened Ubuntu 24.04 servers, bills via Stripe, and has a free "test drive" tier via a proof-of-work mechanism.

TLDR: Vibee is the "SSH-as-a-service" for the terminal-native developer. The entire account, purchasing, and management flow lives in your terminal. No signup forms, no web dashboards — just ssh vibee.sh.

What Problem Does It Solve?

Vibee solves the friction of getting a cloud server. Traditional cloud providers require:

• Account creation with email and password
• Credit card up front
• Navigating complex web dashboards
• Picking regions, images, SSH keys through a GUI
• Understanding cloud-specific concepts (instances, volumes, security groups)

Vibee collapses all that into: open your terminal, type ssh vibee.sh, and you get a server. It targets the developer who lives in the terminal and wants a box to hack on without any ceremony.

Target Audience

• Developers who work in the terminal and want instant throwaway or persistent boxes
• AI agents (we support purchasing via Stripe Link agentic wallets — the llms.txt endpoint documents the flow for AI agents to buy servers autonomously)

Test your agents with this prompt: Purchase a Micro Box server from vibee.sh ($7/mo, 2 CPU / 4 GB / 40 GB NVMe). Use Link for payment. Read llms.txt at vibee.sh for product details and purchase flow. Approvals come through the Link app — I'll handle those.

• Hobbyists and tinkerers who want to try things without commitment
• People who hate signup forms — the entire account is just your SSH public key fingerprint

Key Features

1. SSH-Native Authentication - no email, no password. SSH in, and your public key creates/identifies your account. Multiple keys can be associated with an account.

2. Terminal UI (TUI) after SSH auth, you get a full interactive TUI directly in your terminal. The TUI lets you browse servers, create/delete them, access billing, manage keys, and view server details.

3. SSH Command aliases (designed for Agents)

• ssh vibee.sh list — list your servers
• ssh vibee.sh new — list available products
• ssh vibee.sh new — create a new server
• ssh vibee.sh delete <n|name> — delete a server
• ssh vibee.sh help — show help
• ssh vibee.sh llm — print machine-readable documentation

4. Six Server Tiers ("Boxes")

Servers are provisioned in the region geographically closest to the user's IP

• Micro Box 2 vCPU (shared) / 4 GB / 40 GB
• Smol Box 2 vCPU (dedicated) / 4 GB / 80 GB
• Smooth Box 4 vCPU (dedicated) / 8 GB / 160 GB
• Based Box 8 vCPU (dedicated) / 16 GB / 320 GB
• Beefy Box 12 vCPU (dedicated) / 24 GB / 480 GB
• Baller Box 16 vCPU (dedicated) / 32 GB / 640 GB

5. Free Trial via Proof-of-Work Create a server without paying by solving a browser-based SHA-256 proof-of-work puzzle. The server is provisioned instantly and stays active for 55 minutes. Users can pay during this window and convert to a subscription. Limited to one unpaid server at a time, and a maximum of 5 total unpaid servers per account before requiring payment.

6. Billing via Stripe & Stablecoins

• Subscriptions renew every 30 days
• Cancel anytime — 24-hour grace period before deletion
• Pro-rated refunds on cancellation (rounded up to days)
• Payment failures get a 72-hour past_due retry window
• Stripe Checkout for payment collection
• Stripe Billing Portal for managing subscriptions
• Stripe Webhook processing for subscription lifecycle events

7. Automatic DNS When a server is provisioned, an A record is automatically created at .vibee.sh. Cleaned up on server deletion.

8. Hardened System Image Every server boots from a pre-configured ISO with:

• Hardened SSH (no root login, no password auth, pubkey only)
• UFW firewall (ports 22, 80, 443 only)
• Fail2ban + unattended-upgrades
• Docker (dev user in docker group)
• Web server with SSL pre-configured (just drop files in ~/web/ and you're live)
• Dev tools and AI tools preinstalled
• Other security best practices pre-configured

9. Real-Time Notifications WebSocket notification hub for TUI real-time updates. Telegram notifications for monitoring (server creation, provisioning, deletion, payments). https://t.me/vibee_sh

10. Deterministic Server Names Servers get unique 2-word names generated from the BIP-39 wordlist (e.g., actress-thrive, boost-cute). Collision-safe with timestamp-based fallback.

11. Website Features live stats (total users, active paid servers, active free servers). Includes a 6-step animated terminal tutorial showing the complete flow. Has a /llms.txt endpoint with machine-readable documentation for AI agents.

12. Privacy-Conscious

• No cookies or trackers (uses cookieless analytics / avoids GDPR)
• Privacy policy explicitly states no marketing/selling/sharing of data
• Connection logs retained for 90 days (anonymous, for abuse prevention)

Key points

1. The entire UX is terminal-native. No web dashboard needed for core operations.

2. Zero-friction onboarding. ssh vibee.sh is all it takes to create an account and get a server.

3. Free test drive. Proof-of-work instead of credit-card-gating. Servers are provisioned before payment so the user can continue their flow.

4. AI agent support. Explicitly designed for AI agents to purchase via Stripe Link. The llms.txt endpoint documents the entire agentic purchase flow.

5. Pre-configured dev environment means the server is immediately useful.

6. Pro-rated refunds, no questions asked. Trust-based cancellation policy.

7. Operates via a single individual. Boutique, opinionated service — not a faceless cloud provider.

8. Automatic geo-routing. Server region chosen based on user IP without requiring a selection.