5 engineers on Hacker News describe using OrbStack first-hand: 5 endorse it, 0 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“We migrated 100+ devs to Orbstack and it was like a collective sigh of relief that we finally had something that actually worked.”
endorse · production · frje1400 · 2025-09-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Locally I use OrbStack by the way, much less intrusive than Docker Desktop.”
endorse · personal · jeffhuys · 2025-09-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“OrbStack's SSH proxy automagically spins up the VM whenever it's called upon... That's pretty cool”
endorse · personal · pxc · 2024-11-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched hundreds of engineers over to it at Instacart and it was seamless.”
endorse · production · mdeeks · 2024-09-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched everyone at Instacart over from Docker Desktop to OrbStack because it was so much faster, easier on the battery”
endorse · production · mdeeks · 2024-08-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?