Who are their highly funded closed-source competitors they claim Warp cannot beat on price?

Warp is the only closed source terminal product I know of. Most other popular terminal emulators are open source already.

I feel like their funding is drying up and this is their last ditch effort to have the "community" build their product for them.

They claim agents will run the show, with inputs from community in the form of ideas/specs/direction. I wonder how long that will be sustainable for given the subsidized model prices are collapsing as we speak.

Is this an attempt to pivot to something else while the "community" keeps their first product alive? Maybe I'm being too cynical here, but I don't see this as an act of good faith, especially given their roots in VC funding.

▲ SOLAR_FIELDS an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I'm not too familiar with Warp so can someone help clarify for me:

Is Warp a terminal? Or an agent harness? Or both?

Warp as a terminal to me seems less interesting than having a well built agent harness like OpenCode that can effectively use many different models. If it's both, is there any advantage to having them be the same thing? Like, is there any way your harness can be smarter if it is also tightly integrated in your terminal? Or is it just something that Warp happens to do both of?

▲ taupi 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They see their competitors as Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor, not ghostty or something.

▲ tedd4u 15 hours ago | parent | next [-]

GitHub is going to go after this too (unsurprisingly). Working "Ace" prototype from Github "lab."

https://maggieappleton.com/zero-alignment/

▲ sho 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The problem description is spot on, but the solution isn't. No-one is going to sit in that chat and "collaborate" on each other's stuff in real time all day. You may as well just all sit around a screen.

I welcome the experimentation, there will definitely be something new, but this ain't it. New primitives are needed, at a higher level of conceptualization, not merely a fancy new interface.

▲ godelski 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

  > writing code is now fast, it's getting cheaper, and quality is going up to the right

I'm unconvinced... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939579

	▲	duskdozer 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I swear I've heard that exact phrase repeated over and over by many people

▲ aniceperson 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

the presenter is pretty sane, but the product is hardly a product at the current scenario. pretty much codemirror 6 collaborative editing demo + vm running claude code, with a web GUI. will fall apart with large code bases just like vscode, github codespaces and co. do, and expensive for llms to run against. Would be nice to see the foundational problems being worked on instead of regurgiting what everybody is doing.

▲ frenchie4111 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

And of course harness [1] (I kid, this is my tiny personal project in the same space)

[1] https://harness.mikelyons.org

▲ zachlloyd 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

correct - our business is our agent and orchestrator, not our terminal.

▲ aarondf 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

soloterm.com is closed source

▲ s_suiindik an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

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