Your AI is a genius. It can write a recursive parser at 2am without blinking. What it cannot do is remember that it already ran npm install yesterday.
So every session starts the same way. Install. Wait. Configure. Wait some more. By the time the dev server finally boots and your AI actually understands what it's looking at, you're closing the laptop for the night. Tomorrow, you get to do it all again. And the day after that. Forever, probably, until the heat death of the universe or your next coffee break, whichever comes first.
Idle9 is a Linux workspace that just stays put. Your AI connects over MCP, does its thing, and when you both wander off it quietly snapshots itself and takes a nap. Come back whenever and it's awake in seconds — files, packages, databases, and yes, that one environment variable you would never in a million years have remembered, all exactly where you left them.
The first month's on us
Use code PUBLIC2026 at signup for a free month on the base plan. After that it's $7.99/month — cancel anytime, no exit interview, no guilt trip, no "are you sure?" five times in a row.
Bring your own AI
Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Windsurf — anything that speaks MCP is welcome here. One token covers every workspace you own. Your AI gets a real shell: it can run commands, write files, install whatever it needs, and expose a port so you get a public URL for whatever it just built while you weren't looking.
The fine print, minus the squinting
- One workspace awake at a time. Own a dozen if you want, switch between them freely — leaving one just puts it to sleep, it doesn't get deleted.
- If we're full, you queue. You keep your spot, it starts itself when it's your turn, and your dashboard shows exactly where you stand. No refreshing like it's concert tickets.
- The status page doesn't lie. It's the same dashboard we're staring at. If something's on fire, you'll know before you have to ask.
Nothing to install. Nothing to configure. No YAML anywhere in sight. Grab a free month with code PUBLIC2026 and find out if you ever want to type npm install twice again.