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41 points kenrose 3 hours ago 22 comments

ayayronf 2 hours ago | parent

Congrats to the conductor team! The timeline to migrate off Conductor Cloud feels very aggressive. What tooling are other folks moving to?

askedrelic 2 hours ago | parent

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

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

sbarre 1 hour ago | parent

FWIW I used Orca for a week and then went back to Herdr..

Orca has a lot of UI bugs, buttons that don't work, menus that don't disappear, etc.. To be fair they push updates quite regularly, but I think I will check back in once it's a bit more stable.

pbjerkeseth 32 minutes ago | parent

If you like taking bets on smaller oss & independent projects that have no interest in creating a vc backed business, I'm working (9 months+ now) on https://ouijit.com/

gh: https://github.com/ouijit/ouijit

It'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).

dgritsko 2 hours ago | parent

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

fabianlindfors 1 hour ago | parent

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

creativeembassy 35 minutes ago | parent

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/

babelfish 2 hours ago | parent

Congrats to the team, but bummed out that I'm losing my favorite IDE!

phildenhoff 2 hours ago | parent

Congratulations to the team - but it's a bitter ending. I wish, in these cases, the company could open source a version of their desktop software. But I'm sure the tech is part of what Meta is acquiring.

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'm not sure that if I was hunting for a new tool today that I'd pick up Orca. Maybe Herdr? or Stencil's Tern?

All that to say - they built a great product with great UX. Looking forward to seeing what they build next at Meta!

green-frog-445 1 hour ago | parent

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

phildenhoff 59 minutes ago | parent

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.

FriendlyMike 1 hour ago | parent

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https://hive.codes/signup

platevoltage 1 hour ago | parent

I'm routing for you.

ellievic221 1 hour ago | parent

thank you for this!

ChrisArchitect 1 hour ago | parent

Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50369840

SethSchilbe 57 minutes ago | parent

Tried Conductor in the past but had migrated all of our teams remote development work to http://boxes.dev as it was much more intuitive and easier to manage parallel workstreams.

Would highly recommend it for anyone looking for an alternative with Conductor shutting down.

Strongbad536 45 minutes ago | parent

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.

Very happy to see the team get a happy ending/landing!

bqsile 41 minutes ago | parent

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.

mushufasa 29 minutes ago | parent

I first thought it was about this Conductor: https://github.com/netflix/conductor

inshard 29 minutes ago | parent

Doesn’t Claude desktop do all of this and more. Like, is this IP layer super commoditized?

jader201 14 minutes ago | parent

[dupe] of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50369840