Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Show HN: Paseo – Beautiful open-source coding agent interface

github.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

41–50 of 67 posts

Re: Show HN: Paseo – Beautiful open-source coding agent interface

#41

Post by digitaltrees »

keyle wrote: post #12

"Ship on the go" is so insane to me. It's like people pulling their phones out while taking a piss standing, or having to pull their phones out when the traffic lights are red in a crossing. Just, do one thing at a time, live a life. Shipping code from your phone, whhhyy. Mates, this isn't a flex, it's depression.

Umm. I have small kids that I take to classes and swim school and gymnastics and so on and so on. I built www.propelcode.app which is similar to this project so I didn’t need to be chained to my desktop and I didn’t need to let AI agents run wild with no code review or human in the loop oversight. For some of us doing development on our phones is living life.

And the fact that some of the coding tasks I trigger take 20 minutes means I can fire off a message, leave it, look at the code when I have a spare moment, suggest changes, and go on spending time with my kids.

Honestly it’s freaking amazing.

And I will definitely check out this project and contribute to it with what I have learned! Kudos to the developers behind it.

Re: Show HN: Paseo – Beautiful open-source coding agent interface

#42

Post by digitaltrees »

boudra wrote: post #22
keyle wrote: post #12

"Ship on the go" is so insane to me. It's like people pulling their phones out while taking a piss standing, or having to pull their phones out when the traffic lights are red in a crossing. Just, do one thing at a time, live a life. Shipping code from your phone, whhhyy. Mates, this isn't a flex, it's depression.

Maintainer here. I get the concern, but that has not been my experience. I don't think of the mobile side as a way to keep working on your phone on top of your full working day, although I will admit it can be used that way. It is more about being able to step away from the desk without losing access to the work. Let's say you spend 6 hours at your desk, what if you could spend 2 of those hours walking instead? To me…

Cool project. I don’t think people will get the mobile version until they need it but when they do it’s a mind bending, life changing realization. I built my own IDE to have it on my phone because I have small kids and it is truly life changing. I get to spend way more time with my kids while still getting work done.

If you’re open to collaborating I’d be happy to share what I’ve learned an see if we can share resources or lessons.

https://calendly.com/ryanwmartin/open-office-hours

Re: Show HN: Paseo – Beautiful open-source coding agent interface

#43

Post by txhwind »

boudra wrote: post #17
akoumjian wrote: post #7

I think this is a neat idea. Is there a way to self-host the web app interface?

Maintainer here. Yes, the web app is a static Expo export, so the simplest self-host path is to build packages/app and serve the generated dist/ with any static HTTP server. The daemon itself is published to npm as `@getpaseo/cli`. Docs for this are currently missing, and I should probably package all of this in a Docker image. I'll do that today!

Does the official relay server cost a lot on network?

Re: Show HN: Paseo – Beautiful open-source coding agent interface

#44

Post by boudra »

tao_oat wrote: post #38

This looks really neat! I've tried Conductor, Superconductor, cmux, and a half-dozen other apps that all give you a similar interface. It'd be great if there was a comparison to at least some of those on Paseo's website.

Maintainer here. From the ones you listed, I only have a comparison page to Conductor (see others in the menu): https://paseo.sh/docs/alternatives/conductor

We're all converging on similar interfaces, but there are differences. The main ones right now are:

- FOSS

- Local-first and self-hostable

- No telemetry or forced login

- macOS, Windows and Linux

- Available as a desktop app, web app, native mobile app and PWA

- Daemon/client architecture, run the daemon anywhere you want and connect with any client

- Support for popular agents like Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode and Pi. Plus native ACP support which allows it to support most other agents

---

Paseo supports terminal multiplexing, like Cmux, but I'd consider them completely different product categories.

Re: Show HN: Paseo – Beautiful open-source coding agent interface

#45

Post by boudra »

fadilf wrote: post #37

This looks awesome! I've been working on a fairly similar project but just for myself (definitely not production ready) and this format for interacting with code seems like it has a lot of potential. One thing I was considering as a value-add was that this type of interface enables is having support for MDX output or even embedded MCP UI apps in the middle of a chat. Typical CLI agents don't support that but a UI tha…

Maintainer here. Great points! Paseo already supports embedding images in the chat, but no MDX or chart rendering yet. I have been meaning to add Mermaid support but haven't got around to it yet.

Re: Show HN: Paseo – Beautiful open-source coding agent interface

#46

Post by afro88 »

keyle wrote: post #12

"Ship on the go" is so insane to me. It's like people pulling their phones out while taking a piss standing, or having to pull their phones out when the traffic lights are red in a crossing. Just, do one thing at a time, live a life. Shipping code from your phone, whhhyy. Mates, this isn't a flex, it's depression.

It's very addictive when you're working on something cool and the agents are iterating nicely. Instead of browsing reddit / HN / instagram etc during downtime, I find it much more fun to build something.

Re: Show HN: Paseo – Beautiful open-source coding agent interface

#49

Post by arcastroe »

I'm using Gitea itself as my coding agent interface. I simply tag @codex or @claude on an issue and ask it to open a pull request. Or ask it to reply back on a comment thread, etc.

The Gitea interface is already a pretty good interface that can be accessed from any browser on any device.

Re: Show HN: Paseo – Beautiful open-source coding agent interface

#50

Post by timhigins »

jjcm wrote: post #3

Not to undercut the open source nature of this, but what makes this "beautiful"? From a design standpoint, it's basic tailwind. Neutral grey tailwind at that, using Lucide icons. There's nothing wrong with these, but it'd be more apt to say that the design is unopinionated. It's the default choice when design intent is the afterthought and a focus is on functionality. Again, not trying to undercut - looks like a soli…

As noted above, I'm not the creator of Paseo, just a big fan. Beautiful is just ways to describe it (along with convenient, and powerful) since it has a very focused and clean UI. Especially compared to many open source projects, which often don't put in that much effort or are unabashedly vibe-coded.

Of course it is open source so I hope some of the designers/people who've commented on this post can maybe contribute ideas to improve it even more. I have noticed a few places where some common actions take 1 or 2 more clicks or taps than they should - things can always be a bit more convenient and beautiful.

But overall I'm incredibly impressed and you can see some examples of the focus on simplicity and a nice UI, and follow the creator here: https://x.com/moboudra

Post reply on HN