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Re: Show HN: Clink – Bring your own CLI Agents, Ship instantly

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Post by mentalgear »

aaronSong wrote: post #6
harry7922 wrote: post #4

This is super cool. Love the idea of using the agents I already pay for instead of signing up for yet another subscription. Curious how you're handling sandboxing and dependency isolation between builds? That's usually the hardest part when trying to make build -> preview -> deploy feel seamless for multiple runtimes.

sandboxing is indeed the trickiest part. We're using Daytona for development environments, which gives us proper isolation out of the box. Each build runs in its own sandbox workspace with full container isolation, so there's no cross-contamination between projects or users.

Interesting, but Daytona appears to be a cloud-only sandboxing system. Yet your copy states: "coding agents run locally"; so unless I'm missing something, this is at least misleading, since the code/sandboxes need a Daytona cloud account.

Re: Show HN: Clink – Bring your own CLI Agents, Ship instantly

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Post by aaronSong »

mentalgear wrote: post #9

Other than having a GUI, how is this different from something more established like openCode ?

Good question! while we use CLI agents as the coding backbone, our focus is really on the application building experience: live preview and seamless deployment. The key difference is that we give you an isolated sandbox container where you can see your app running instantly, then deploy it with one click. so instead of just getting code output, you get a runnable application that you can interact with and ship immediately. openCode is great for pure coding tasks, but we're optimized for the full build-preview-deploy cycle.

Re: Show HN: Clink – Bring your own CLI Agents, Ship instantly

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Post by mentalgear »

aaronSong wrote: post #13
mentalgear wrote: post #9

Other than having a GUI, how is this different from something more established like openCode ?

Good question! while we use CLI agents as the coding backbone, our focus is really on the application building experience: live preview and seamless deployment. The key difference is that we give you an isolated sandbox container where you can see your app running instantly, then deploy it with one click. so instead of just getting code output, you get a runnable application that you can interact with and ship immedi…

Thanks for the clarification, and kudos to you for making it open-source!

Re: Show HN: Clink – Bring your own CLI Agents, Ship instantly

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Post by aaronSong »

ant1894 wrote: post #12

How does this differ from existiong app builders? I've seen quite a few similar projects.....

Most app builders use lightweight coding agents and infrastructure. we're leveraging the full power of CLI agents (Claude Code, Codex, etc) as the engine, which means you can build with any frontend stack like react/next/svelte and any backend like fastapi/nestjs/flask/ruby, then deploy everything as a container. this is live in beta now. also, if you have an existing project, say a python ML model, you can import it and add a frontend to create a complete deployable service. the CLI agents are just way more capable than typical app builder agents, and we're giving them the infrastructure to match that capability.

Re: Show HN: Clink – Bring your own CLI Agents, Ship instantly

#16

Post by WildGreenLeave »

aaronSong wrote: post #10
jhack wrote: post #8

Pretty cool! I see you support deploying to Vercel. Any plans to support other hosts?

Ah, Vercel is what we use in the open source Claudable version! For Clink, we currently deploy static/frontend to Cloudflare Pages and full stack apps to Railway, both work great for different use cases. We're definitely interested in adding more deployment targets. What hosting platforms would you prefer to see? we can prioritize based on what the community needs most

I'm part of a new hosting platform focusing on the European market, would you be open to discuss what you are looking for and see if we can become partners? Obviously no strings attached :) If so, please drop me an email zander@ploi.cloud

Edit: Forgot to add my thought; I think you should be more clear about what Clink does compared to other software like Claude Code. The building demo's to me (a developer/devops person) are cool but my first thought was 'Why would I use this over Claude Code'? And only in this thread I saw the USP for Clink which makes perfect sense for non-techies!

Re: Show HN: Clink – Bring your own CLI Agents, Ship instantly

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Post by aaronSong »

mentalgear wrote: post #11
aaronSong wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

sandboxing is indeed the trickiest part. We're using Daytona for development environments, which gives us proper isolation out of the box. Each build runs in its own sandbox workspace with full container isolation, so there's no cross-contamination between projects or users.

Interesting, but Daytona appears to be a cloud-only sandboxing system. Yet your copy states: "coding agents run locally"; so unless I'm missing something, this is at least misleading, since the code/sandboxes need a Daytona cloud account.

ah, I think there's some confusion with the open source version! The OSS Claudable runs everything locally on your machine. This new Clink product runs in the cloud with Daytona sandboxes. sorry for the confusion, we should clarify that better. the 'locally' copy was from the original OSS project description. will update to be clearer about the cloud infrastructure for Clink!

Re: Show HN: Clink – Bring your own CLI Agents, Ship instantly

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Post by aaronSong »

WildGreenLeave wrote: post #16
aaronSong wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ah, Vercel is what we use in the open source Claudable version! For Clink, we currently deploy static/frontend to Cloudflare Pages and full stack apps to Railway, both work great for different use cases. We're definitely interested in adding more deployment targets. What hosting platforms would you prefer to see? we can prioritize based on what the community needs most

I'm part of a new hosting platform focusing on the European market, would you be open to discuss what you are looking for and see if we can become partners? Obviously no strings attached :) If so, please drop me an email zander@ploi.cloud Edit: Forgot to add my thought; I think you should be more clear about what Clink does compared to other software like Claude Code. The building demo's to me (a developer/devops per…

Thanks for reaching out about the hosting platform! really interested in the European market, will definitely drop you an email once we get things more organized on our end. You make a great point about the messaging. claude code is definitely comfortable for many devs right now. but we're seeing people constantly switch between codex, claude, and now newer agents like droid and glm. we're positioning ourselves as a mixture of agents platform where you can leverage the best tool for each task. also yeah, CLI agents are amazing for coding but not great for instant previews or deployments. that's exactly the gap we're filling. the positioning will probably evolve as we learn more from users, but that's the core idea: bring your favorite CLI agents, get the missing pieces (preview + deploy) without paying for another full coding platform. appreciate the feedback on making this clearer upfront!

Re: Show HN: Clink – Bring your own CLI Agents, Ship instantly

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Post by willchen »

Really interesting project! I tried it last week and ran into same errors and today I tried it again and it worked.

I'm curious how the Clink desktop app connects to the web app. Is it sending some kind of oauth token so you can use call Claude Code, etc, on behalf of the user?

FWIW, I created an open-source project in this space https://github.com/dyad-sh/dyad/ and it's great to see people trying different approaches :)

Re: Show HN: Clink – Bring your own CLI Agents, Ship instantly

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Post by aaronSong »

willchen wrote: post #19

Really interesting project! I tried it last week and ran into same errors and today I tried it again and it worked. I'm curious how the Clink desktop app connects to the web app. Is it sending some kind of oauth token so you can use call Claude Code, etc, on behalf of the user? FWIW, I created an open-source project in this space https://github.com/dyad-sh/dyad/ and it's great to see people trying different approache…

Oh I really like your product! you're right about how it works. the desktop app sends oauth tokens to connect to the cloud infrastructure. dyad looks really cool, love the local-first approach. it's exciting to see so many different takes on this space right now. what are you focusing on with dyad these days?
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