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Show HN: I put an AI agent on a $7/month VPS with IRC as its transport layer
The stack: two agents on separate boxes. The public one (nullclaw) is a 678 KB Zig binary using ~1 MB RAM, connected to an Ergo IRC server. Visitors talk to it via a gamja web client embedded in my site. The private one (ironclaw) handles email and scheduling, reachable only over Tailscale via Google's A2A protocol.<p>Tiered inference: Haiku 4.5 for conversation (sub-second, cheap), Sonnet 4.6 for tool use (only when needed). Hard cap at $2/day.<p>A2A passthrough: the private-side agent borrows the gateway's own inference pipeline, so there's one API key and one billing relationship regardless of who initiated the request.<p>You can talk to nully at <a href="https://georgelarson.me/chat/" rel="nofollow">https://georgelarson.me/chat/</a> or connect with any IRC client to irc.georgelarson.me:6697 (TLS), channel #lobby.
This is a technical proof-of-concept or hobbyist project rather than a viable venture-scale startup, utilizing a legacy protocol (IRC) with no clear monetization or moat. While it demonstrates baseline technical execution and captured modest developer interest on Hacker News, it lacks the market scale and competitive advantage required for institutional investment.