SkyPC connects PC owners with people who need a full remote desktop — gaming, dev, design, or everyday Windows. A lightweight agent runs in the background, benchmarks your hardware, and spins up an isolated session when someone rents.
Three sides of one marketplace. Hosts supply idle compute; renters consume it; SkyPC handles trust, isolation, and payments.
Install the SkyPC agent once. It inventories your CPU, RAM, GPU, disk, and network — then keeps running quietly in the background, reporting health and availability.
Search verified machines by specs, latency, and price. Connect to a full remote desktop — billed only for active minutes, not idle promises.
Matchmaking, verification, billing, and secure session setup. Like Vast.ai for GPUs — but for complete desktop experiences.
End-to-end flow from install to payout. This is the product shape we're building toward.
A small Windows service installs in the background. No need to leave a window open — it starts on boot and talks to SkyPC over a secure channel.
The agent reads hardware (CPU cores, RAM speed, GPU, NVMe) and runs a short benchmark suite — similar to Vast.ai self-test — to build a verified profile.
The host sets price per minute and availability. The listing shows live specs, benchmark scores, latency to your region, and reliability rating.
A renter picks a desktop, adds balance, and starts a session. Billing ticks every minute while the remote desktop is active and reachable.
The agent provisions an isolated VM or container with reserved CPU/RAM (and GPU when available). The renter gets credentials or a browser stream.
When the renter stops or balance runs out, the session tears down, disk is wiped, and the host earns their share minus platform fee.
Yes — the SkyPC agent is a lightweight background service (like an antivirus or game launcher service). It starts on boot, uses minimal CPU when idle, and only does heavy work during benchmarks or when a renter is connected.
Yes, with isolation.When someone rents your machine, they don't get your Windows login or your files. The agent spins up a separate VM or container— a "shadow desktop" with its own OS image, reserved CPU cores, and reserved RAM. You keep using the host OS; the renter only sees their isolated environment.
CPU and RAM split cleanly between host and VM. GPUs are trickier on consumer hardware — most hosts will choose idle-only mode(rent when you're away) or dedicate the GPU to the renter during active sessions. High-end setups can use GPU partitioning (MIG, SR-IOV) later.
Host PC — layered view
┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ YOUR WINDOWS (host) │ │ Chrome, games, work — you use normally │ ├─────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ SkyPC Agent (background service) │ │ • specs • benchmarks • orchestration │ ├─────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ ┌─────────────────────────────────┐ │ │ │ RENTER VM / CONTAINER │ │ │ │ (only exists during rental) │ │ │ │ • own Windows user / image │ │ │ │ • reserved 8 cores, 16 GB RAM │ │ │ │ • wiped when session ends │ │ │ └─────────────────────────────────┘ │ ├─────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ Hardware: CPU · RAM · GPU · NVMe │ └─────────────────────────────────────────┘
Idle-only
List when AFK. Full machine for renter.
Shared
VM runs alongside you. Capped resources.
Double-click start on Windows · .exe installer coming later
Inspired by Vast.ai's self-test: inventory on install, benchmarks before listing, and periodic re-checks to catch drift or misreporting.
Sign up to rent PCs and manage them from your dashboard.
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