15 comments

  • Raed6671 minute ago
    I'm not a Conductor user, but the shutdown timeline seems rather rushed no?
  • mgw13 minutes ago
    Congrats to the team! It&#x27;s great to see acquisitions in this space.<p>I personally never thought Conductor was that great, so I built my own with <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;podium.do" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;podium.do</a>.<p>What I was missing was a built-in task system so more complex tasks can be split up by the agents. And running agents on my own machines of course.
  • bqsile59 minutes ago
    I switched to T3 codes a few weeks ago after being a power user of Conductor and I understand why the product felt a bit stale now.
  • maherbeg16 minutes ago
    Congrats to the team! This is a great acquire for meta to super speed their coding agent rival. It&#x27;s very exciting to now have another tier 1 major player in the space.
  • jader20132 minutes ago
    [dupe] of <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=50369840">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=50369840</a>
  • mushufasa47 minutes ago
    I first thought it was about this Conductor: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;netflix&#x2F;conductor" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;netflix&#x2F;conductor</a>
  • Strongbad5361 hour ago
    I used conductor when it was first released for quite some time. Great product but i ultimately wanted to use my own networked devices to do work, so i moved to herdr and then ultimately to t3 code now.<p>Very happy to see the team get a happy ending&#x2F;landing!
    • dbmikus19 minutes ago
      Are you using Tailscale for your network, or something else?<p>I&#x27;ve been working on a startup in the &quot;private networks + VMs for agents&quot; space, so I&#x27;m always trying to learn how people run their current setups.
  • phildenhoff3 hours ago
    Congratulations to the team - but it&#x27;s a bitter ending. I wish, in these cases, the company could open source a version of their desktop software. But I&#x27;m sure the tech is part of what Meta is acquiring.<p>I started using Conductor in January this year and it was a great tool - Charlie and the team knocked it out of the park. I only migrated to Orca when I needed better multi-machine control, and remote control, but these tools are a dime-a-dozen now. I&#x27;m not sure that if I was hunting for a new tool today that I&#x27;d pick up Orca. Maybe Herdr? or Stencil&#x27;s Tern?<p>All that to say - they built a great product with great UX. Looking forward to seeing what they build next at Meta!
    • green-frog-4451 hour ago
      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
      • phildenhoff1 hour ago
        My needs (multi machine set up, one tool) do not work well with “one VM”. If I ran Claude code on one VM, I’d only have that one machines resources. I’d have to have a second session in another terminal tab which is… well that’s Herdr. And orca. They manage those.
  • ayayronf3 hours ago
    Congrats to the conductor team! The timeline to migrate off Conductor Cloud feels very aggressive. What tooling are other folks moving to?
    • ashiban3 minutes ago
      We&#x27;re building Datadog Studio[0], for both building things, but also following them through to prod<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.projectcodename.dev&#x2F;access" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.projectcodename.dev&#x2F;access</a>
    • creativeembassy53 minutes ago
      I switched to Paseo a few months ago. Fully open-source, I&#x27;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&#x27;t really had to do any maintenance on it...)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;paseo.sh&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;paseo.sh&#x2F;</a>
    • askedrelic3 hours ago
      Orca is next for me to trial <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.onorca.dev&#x2F;">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.onorca.dev&#x2F;</a><p>Herdr has been another YC favorite <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;herdr.dev&#x2F;">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;herdr.dev&#x2F;</a>
      • pbjerkeseth50 minutes ago
        If you like taking bets on smaller oss &amp; independent projects that have no interest in creating a vc backed business, I&#x27;m working (9 months+ now) on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ouijit.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ouijit.com&#x2F;</a><p>gh: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ouijit&#x2F;ouijit" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ouijit&#x2F;ouijit</a><p>It&#x27;s a bit unique from a design standpoint, but the next release brings it a little more in line with the zeitgeist (but not too much).
      • sbarre1 hour ago
        FWIW I used Orca for a week and then went back to Herdr..<p>Orca has a lot of UI bugs, buttons that don&#x27;t work, menus that don&#x27;t disappear, etc.. To be fair they push updates quite regularly, but I think I will check back in once it&#x27;s a bit more stable.
    • fabianlindfors1 hour ago
      I moved to getbb.app. Been really happy with it for the past few months. The plugin functionality is really cool.
    • dgritsko2 hours ago
      T3 Code here, I&#x27;ve been a hardcore user of Conductor for a while but T3 is excellent.
    • hoakiet9836 minutes ago
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  • FriendlyMike1 hour ago
    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<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hive.codes&#x2F;signup" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hive.codes&#x2F;signup</a>
    • burger_moon7 minutes ago
      Appropriate user name too.
    • platevoltage1 hour ago
      I&#x27;m routing for you.
      • FriendlyMike7 minutes ago
        Thank you, we are pre seed and raising. Our team is ex Airbnb where we built agent harness for the last 2 years. We have a sustainable model - 20 a month gets you 10 remote concurrent machines and the full platform tool chain. You can use our ui, mcp through Claude or codex or straight up run codex and Claude server in our VMs. Every sub will be profit for us and means we don’t need to sell the company when it gets larger
    • ellievic2211 hour ago
      thank you for this!
  • babelfish3 hours ago
    Congrats to the team, but bummed out that I&#x27;m losing my favorite IDE!
  • SethSchilbe1 hour ago
    Tried Conductor in the past but had migrated all of our teams remote development work to <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;boxes.dev">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;boxes.dev</a> as it was much more intuitive and easier to manage parallel workstreams.<p>Would highly recommend it for anyone looking for an alternative with Conductor shutting down.
  • ChrisArchitect1 hour ago
    Some more discussion: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=50369840">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=50369840</a>
  • inshard47 minutes ago
    Doesn’t Claude desktop do all of this and more. Like, is this IP layer super commoditized?