"... many lifetimes ago in 2025"

This made me laugh. The world is different now. Congrats!

I'm in the awkward position of wanting to congratulate you and scold you at the same time. Wish you'd been bought by Anthropic or something instead. Anyhow- congrats on getting scooped up.

Are you going to retire now and start a band ?

Congratulations, getting an exit in a bit over a year is very very good

You lads... I remember when we had to paste the code from the chat window into VSCode.

Just wanted to congratulate you guys. Like many of us here, I had a mixed reaction of happy for your team, but also sad for Conductor. I tried a bunch of different approaches for coding agents, once I started using Conductor I was like "oh I guess I'm done looking for a harness" - a beautiful clean UI, great UX and just an overall smooth experience with all the features you could need.

Hopefully Meta does something good with your team's talent and technology, but regardless, it was a huge productivity boost for me and I really appreciate that. Good luck to you and your team at Meta!

why sellout your company and your customers and community?

> The whole team is around to help answer any questions

Why did you sell out?

There’s no need to. There are so many alternatives with almost the same feature set like superset.sh and orca.dev.

Why not try one of the existing services before you spend time maintaining something yourself? For the past two months, I've been using boxes.dev

95% of all my sessions are on boxes. Initially, the draw was just a remote box that I could control on mobile, but some of the features they have added recently, like coordinating child sessions, are wildly good.

I know there are new startups in this space every day, so what tipped things for me was that the team is so responsive and ships features in the matter of hours.

Save tokens and spend them on building cool stuff instead. If you're open to it, give my dreamcoder.ai harness a whirl.

Agentastic is already pretty close in concept. Why not help improve it?

Been using superset for some time, but they dont have the cloud offering yet..

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I use Paradev (https://paradev.com - previously Superset) and it's great. They posted a migration guide today https://docs.paradev.com/migrate-from-conductor

I'm one of the founders of https://podium.do. We created Podium because none of the other ADEs worked like what we wanted. I think it could be interesting for you to checkout as an alternative because there are similarities to Conductor, plus a few interesting additional features. We are pretty strong for complex tasks because we put an agent native issue tracker at the core of architecture which turned out as a super power in that case.

https://orca.dev I think it's probably the easiest switch (Conductor imports).

I work on Orca and we're shipping frequently.

Let us know if you have feedback! (MIT OSS)

I like using https://paradev.com/

I will always recommend T3 Code, it is by far the best one I have tried that isn't glued to a specific model provider. Trades blows with Codex / Claude Desktop in terms of features. All of the other multi-provider orchestrators have not been keeping up with Claude Desktop in particular adding features at lightning-speed, but T3 Code somehow manages.

(I am building my own tool in this area and I literally downloaded and tried all of them as market research)

there are so many and I'm sure something has changed since I last checked but:

- paseo: open, mobile app is a first class citizen, i've been happy with it

- orca: vc backed, featureful (built in ios sim, for example)

- herdr: vc backed, terminal native, im sure there are more features since i last checked it

- t3: open, never used it but folks seem to like it

https://ampcode.com/ is amazing! Surprised the community here does not discuss it more.

Free 3 month sub to any current Conductor user. We promise to never sell to Facebook, X or other weirdo billionaires. I started this company to get away from working at big tech and not to sell to it. Up to 10 cloud workspaces per person, works with all the things you need. https://hive.codes/signup

I'm obviously biased but Paradev, it imports your Conductor worktrees as is https://paradev.com

https://herdr.dev/

Give my dreamcoder.ai harness a whirl. Runs in your browser on all 3 platforms. Tiling window manager; generous use of keyboard shortcuts, so it's not just for mouse users.

Agentastic is great for mac users. I'm hoping the project gets a boost with this acquistion.

Check Beolis (https://beolis.com).

Disclaimer: I'm developing it.

Paseo is great

tern or orca or bb or vanilla claude code desktop / codex desktop

Claude or ChatGPT

buzzpot.app :)

getbb.app

boxes.dev!

macro.land

Orca dev here! I'd suggest Orca

Why? We let you bring your own cloud (versus being locked in).

You can bring a local cloud, sandboxes, or whatever you'd like

We even launched community plugins this week for VM/sandboxes (our you can have your own internal plugin)

https://www.onorca.dev/plugins?kind=machines

We built https://boxes.dev specifically for cloud dev / isolated VMs (disclosure, I'm one of the founders). Getting work off your laptop is such a productivity boost when you have parallel threads. Obviously there are a ton of products in this category (rest of the comments here have many examples) but we're 100% focused on the cloud experience

Paradev founder here, our cloud workspaces should cover most of that https://paradev.com

I'd say tern or orca, some customization and a decent vps will get you 95%+ of the way there

superset.sh is quite a good option that will mostly get you there.

why use a 3rd party tool instead of just spinning up a VM in GCP and calling it a day? Would really appreciate your insight

Site looks great, congrats - will have a peek - but I feel task handling is better done in the repo itself? (repo-as-the-harness thinking) especially for teams.

That's the consensus on the Discord server, people are not happy.

Are you using Tailscale for your network, or something else?

I've been working on a startup in the "private networks + VMs for agents" space, so I'm always trying to learn how people run their current setups.

I had the same question. I think this is in the space of being like the 'trillian' or 'matrix' of ai agents, using multi provider coding agent from a single interface plus some bells and whistles.

But I think within claude code and codex subagent support has improved a lot lately and it doesn't seem this would improve that much over that native support if you only use one provider.

The benefit is not spinning up sub-agents, but spinning up parallel workstreams. They basically took 90% of the friction out of working with and using worktrees. I was using Linear a lot (and enjoying it!) for my issue tracking, but at some point I realized it's more productive to just create a new worktree in Conductor for any bug/feature and cut out the middleman.

Western AI giants have hundreds of billions of dollars to make back in a world where China is releasing open source tooling and open weights models. How else does they make their money back other than finding _something_ proprietary to sell.

Over the years I've gotten extremely conservative with adopting any new tooling into my workflow, for exactly reasons like this.

Not tried it yet but DeltaDB from ZED (and ZED editor more generally) could cover it for you and they are open source.

I switched to paseo.sh several months ago. It's just as good if not better.

respectfully, its a claude wrapper. with that said if you really can't live without it-- you have the binary, you know what to do.

I switched to Paseo a few months ago. Fully open-source, I've had no issues with it. But no cloud provider option, so to speak. (I run an instance of Paseo in a Hetzner box, agents working full-time, haven't really had to do any maintenance on it...)

https://paseo.sh/

We're building Datadog Studio[0], for both building things, but also following them through to prod

[0] https://www.projectcodename.dev/access

Orca is next for me to trial https://www.onorca.dev/

Herdr has been another YC favorite https://herdr.dev/

I moved to getbb.app. Been really happy with it for the past few months. The plugin functionality is really cool.

T3 Code here, I've been a hardcore user of Conductor for a while but T3 is excellent.

Appropriate user name too.

rooting for you!

I'm routing for you.

thank you for this!