About Orchids
Orchids is a YC-backed, AI-first platform that lets teams build full apps, websites, and prototypes from simple text prompts. Used by innovators at 25+ Fortune 500 companies.
Maintain Industry-Best Performance and User Experience by Remediating Legacy Sandboxes
When a user loads up their project on Orchids, we need them to be able to see and fine-tune their work instantly. Daytona ensures we deliver that experience at scale.
As the definitive leader in AI-powered full-stack development, Orchids outperforms competitors like Figma Make, Lovable, Anything, and others. However, as the platform quickly gained traction amongst startup founders, freelancers, and enterprises alike, the resulting spike in production traffic threatened to upend the user experience. To remediate this issue and continue to drive innovation at scale, Orchids needed secure, stable, and performant sandbox environments.
Co-founder Kevin Lu saw firsthand how new users were encountering sluggish boot-up times, unstable uptime, and sudden crashes in long-running sandbox environments. “Sandboxes would often be slow to boot or finicky from a functionality perspective," he shares. "Users would sometimes just see a white screen while they waited for their projects to load, and once long-running sandboxes hit the one-hour mark, they would start encountering blips or timeouts.”
Kevin knew these performance shortcomings could quickly stifle adoption and erode trust with existing users. In attempts to solve the problem, Kevin piloted several sandboxing tools, but nearly every option suffered the same issues, from slow boot-up speeds to instability during long runtimes.
That’s when he discovered Daytona, an agent-native infrastructure partner that could deliver the performant and stable sandbox environments Orchids needed.
A Collaborative Partner That Delivers Stable and Performant Sandbox Infrastructure at Scale
Daytona is the only solution we've worked with that supports indefinite sandbox environments for our users. They could leave projects open for weeks to months at a time without encountering any stability issues.
Orchids implemented Daytona as the foundational infrastructure for all its user projects, enabling swift sandbox provisioning and long-running stability at scale.
The partnership began with a risk-free trial phase in which Kevin received credits to experiment with Daytona's sandboxes and see how they would bolster Orchids' user experience. While he was already impressed by Daytona's comprehensive, hands-on support during this phase, witnessing Orchids' users provision stable and performant sandboxes in seconds solidified his conviction in the partnership. “We saw users coming on and experiencing much faster project boot-up and more consistency from their sandboxes throughout their session,” Kevin recalls. "Even our more substantial projects were ready in seconds."
The partnership's impact extends well beyond provisioning speeds. With Daytona's long-running sandboxes, background tasks, daemons, or agent processes can run indefinitely without risk of blips, timeouts, or crashes. And because each Daytona sandbox is stateful by design, files, data, configurations, and running processes are effortlessly maintained between sessions.
For Kevin, however, Daytona's continuous flexibility and collaboration are the core value add of the partnership. Not only does he have a direct line to Daytona’s leadership for ad hoc inquiries or support needs, but he can also dynamically adjust Orchids' compute and storage to support enterprise clients with a single message. With access to thousands of vCPUs and terabytes of storage through a pay-as-you-go pricing model, Kevin can ensure even the most daunting enterprise-grade projects have the infrastructure needed to remain stable and performant.
Orchids Users Provision Sandboxes 2x Faster With Daytona
Having a partner that’s responsive and willing to work with us as we grow is incredibly important—and that's exactly what we get with Daytona.
With Daytona, Orchids transformed sandbox provisioning and performance from a drain on the user experience to its competitive advantage. Users now launch projects instantly without encountering interruptions during long-running sessions. Meanwhile, Kevin's team can focus on growing the Orchids platform, rather than troubleshooting frustrations.
- 2x faster sandbox provision times
- 2x increase in long-running sandbox stability
As Orchids continues to revolutionize AI-powered development, Kevin is confident that Daytona's performant and stable sandbox infrastructure will foster a seamless on-platform experience across a rapidly expanding user base.
