Live data from Hacker News

Show HN: Baton – A desktop app for developing with AI agents

getbaton.dev

41–50 of 61 posts

Re: Show HN: Baton – A desktop app for developing with AI agents

#42

How can people afford to use Claude Code like this‽ Is everyone just playing with it on their employer's dime or what?

I have two claude code subscriptions: a team plan through my employer and I'm paying for the $200/month plan outside of that.

Trading $200/month of my money for the ability to build all of the things I've been thinking about for years is a great trade for me. I've built more things for fun/potential profit in the last year than I did in the previous decade combined.

And of course, one of the things I've built is a version of what OP made that works exactly how I want it to work. :)

Re: Show HN: Baton – A desktop app for developing with AI agents

#47

Best of luck with this but I think with so many open source agent managers cropping up, you are going to need to provide very special USP to have people choose yours over the free and open versions. I guess I would suggest that should be a priority for your site and documentation, to help devs understand what that value offer is. Your site does seem nicely presented though and clarity in capability is possibly an ear…

> Best of luck with this but I think with so many open source agent managers cropping up

What’s the top 5 (or any N) that come to mind:

A) GUI based

B) terminal based

C) web based?

Like, not just personal projects but something with a bit of a community around it? I remember Conductor from a bit ago (seems only Mac is supported) and a few other HN posts but all of those seemed smaller and more barebones. Oh I guess OpenCode also has a desktop and web version, but it never worked well for me (and I need something that can just use headless Claude Code instances).

Asking because I just use Claude Code desktop for organizing my sessions and am a bit behind in that regard - if there are indeed many options that others can vouch for somewhat, I’d love to hear about them!

Edit: apparently there is Cmux (Mac only), T3 Code (very new), Agent Orchestrator (tries to be a weird kanban board), Agor (tries to be a weird canvas board) and Claude Squad (TUI only), but none of those are quite what I'm looking for. If there's all that many options, I might have missed most of them - since Baton or OpenCode (a revisit of it) seem more like what I'd be looking for, maybe Conductor if not Mac only.

Re: Show HN: Baton – A desktop app for developing with AI agents

#48
post #28

I don’t know how to phrase this without sounding like an arrogant idiot but seriously: what are people actually programming with agents + worktrees + harnesses + tasks + skills + whatnot? Most workflows I see people adopt involve large amounts of infrastructural fluff only to (more) quickly generate what I (anecdotally) have seen is somewhere between code generation of boilerplatish React/laravel/your-fav-framework c…

You could zoom out a bit and rephrase the question.

Your great-aunt Ida died and left you a consulting team of ten pretty good software engineers. The team's contracts all just ended, so starting tomorrow they'll be idle. Ida said you must run the business for at least two years (fortunately, overhead is already paid for), or forfeit your share of the inheritance. After that you can keep going or liquidate it.

What do you do?

Re: Show HN: Baton – A desktop app for developing with AI agents

#50

Best of luck with this but I think with so many open source agent managers cropping up, you are going to need to provide very special USP to have people choose yours over the free and open versions. I guess I would suggest that should be a priority for your site and documentation, to help devs understand what that value offer is. Your site does seem nicely presented though and clarity in capability is possibly an ear…

> Best of luck with this but I think with so many open source agent managers cropping up What’s the top 5 (or any N) that come to mind: A) GUI based B) terminal based C) web based? Like, not just personal projects but something with a bit of a community around it? I remember Conductor from a bit ago (seems only Mac is supported) and a few other HN posts but all of those seemed smaller and more barebones. Oh I guess O…

Oh-my-Claude and oh-my-codex (same creators) seem to be popular. The latter was used for the immediate ports of the Claude leak to python and rust.

https://github.com/instructkr/claw-code

Here's the oh-my-openagent that is also name checked in the link above:

https://ohmyopenagent.com/

Post reply on HN