Show HN: OpenWork – an open-source alternative to Claude Cowork

(github.com)

126 points by ben_talent1 day ago

11 comments

louis0301955 hours ago
Looks great. I don't use opencode myself but like a lot Claude skills, agents, I have like 50 different ones for personal life, work, dating, whatever Is there integration with Claude skills?Have you considered using or integrating with ACP? <a href="https://zed.dev/acp" rel="nofollow">https://zed.dev/acp</a>We use it in our desktop app IDE (mediar.ai) and it's pretty good
- ben_talent5 hours ago
 Yes it's fully integrated with Claude Skills.There's first-class integration of <a href="https://github.com/enulus/OpenPackage" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/enulus/OpenPackage</a> and we provide a ui to install from a list of skills easily as well as add your own.
- xyzsparetimexyz2 hours ago
 Dating??? Christ, this planet is cooked.
 - kevmo31424 minutes ago
 Surely that is a joke… I hope…
browningstreet2 hours ago
Personally I’m skeptical and a bit dismissive of an insta- clone of commercial offerings. I ignore these things until they’re 3-6 months old and still iterating.Announcements on their own are like whispers.
NSPG9112 hours ago
how does it compare to opencode's own gui that uses tauri?
McAdam5 hours ago
Still feels a bit technical. The Claude approach is designed for "Susan in Accounting" - what thoughts do you have to reduce the technical barriers?
- ben_talent5 hours ago
 Yeah it is still too technical.First obvious stuff like getting the dmg notarized having easier install.Then after it will be about optimizing onboarding. One of the core goals is to help Susan do 1 small task in under 5 min.To do that we will need to: - have some prepackaged configs for folks like starter template - ship opencode within the app itself so users don't need to manually install it - and get rid of the technical jargon that is cluttered in the app.
rose84 hours ago
sounds cool! I'm non technical, I get the workflow with controling home assistant. How could I use this at work? Like how could the workflow be between marketing and devs, for example, for website work, can I change content without dealing with GitHub?
kevinoconnell4 hours ago
yo this is so sick, could def incorporate this into my workflow
- ben_talent4 hours ago
  let me know if you need help, still a bit rough around the edges
yowlingcat3 hours ago
Great stuff and very timely. I just started getting into using opencode and while I'm hugely optimistic about its capabilities and can use it personally without too much sweat, I was left hoping for something a bit more batteries included to give to my non technical colleagues so we can collaborate together. This looks to be exactly what we were looking for so I am looking forward to giving it a spin!
- ben_talent3 hours ago
  Yeah ! I feel like until we figure out the correct UX for non-technical people the right way would be a sort of hybrid. Where you'd set it up on a remote server (if you know opencode you know openwork) and you just then have non-tech people do a one time setup to connect to the remote and from then on you can easily extend capabilities.
imiric4 hours ago
The word "open" in software names has completely lost its meaning.
- ben_talent4 hours ago
  I used "open" because: - it's open source - built on top of open source (opencode) - it's built-around extensibility via plain-text files (skills) and open-source plugins
ktallett7 hours ago
What is the license?
- ben_talent6 hours ago
  MIT
pojntfx7 hours ago
This doesn't seem to be open source, it's currently "all rights reserved" and not under an OSI or FSF license: <a href="https://github.com/different-ai/openwork?tab=readme-ov-file#license" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/different-ai/openwork?tab=readme-ov-file#...</a>
- ben_talent6 hours ago
 Updated ! Thanks for flagging
 - observationist4 hours ago
 Awesome! Very cool project, and kudos for making it MIT licensed.
torstenvl7 hours ago
This isn't open source.
- ben_talent6 hours ago
  Oh damn thanks for flagging. I just added an MIT license.
  - gus_massa6 hours ago
    Beware that the readme.md still says "TBD" at the bottom.
    - ben_talent6 hours ago
      Fixed as well. Thanks again!