smol machines

smol machines is a Y Combinator-backed company that ship software faster with portable, self contained virtual machines. The company participated in the Spring 2026 batch of Y Combinator.

Smol machines solve the problem of "but app works on my machine" by shipping the machine.

Smol machine enables devs to ship a lightweight virtual machine with any software, similar to how Electron ships an entire browser with the web app.

smol machines was part of Y Combinator's Spring 2026 cohort, has a team of approximately 1 employees, and is actively operating.