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

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Clink lets you use the coding agents you already pay for (Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, Z.ai GLM) to build → live-preview → ship apps in an isolated container.

No token purchases, no extra cost for coding. Just link your existing Claude/OpenAI/Gemini account and start building and deploying instantly.

Why we built this:

Claude Code is our go-to for coding, but it lacked preview + deploy capabilities. We didn't want to pay Lovable again just for that.

Different agents excel at different tasks - Claude Code for versatility, Codex for complex work, GLM for speed. We needed one platform to leverage them all.

CLI agents offer more freedom than traditional web builders. We wanted to unlock their full potential with proper dev tooling.

What it does:

- Prompt → Build → Live → Deploy - The fastest path from idea to live website. Deploy for free.

- BYO Subscription - Use your existing plans efficiently (Claude Code $20 = 10x Lovable $25 usage, GLM $3 = 3x Claude Code $20)

DEV Mode (Beta):

- Multi-stack support - Build with Node, Python, Go, Rust and deploy containers to public URLs instantly

- Repo imports - Upgrade and deploy your existing projects across any stack

Links:

- Clink: https://clink.new

- OSS origin (Claudable, ~2.8k): https://github.com/opactorai/Claudable

We'd love any feedback, bug reports, or stack requests - we iterate fast and read every comment.

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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.

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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.

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Interesting use case. I used many vibe coding apps and also cli agents. This could serve as a useful testbed for evaluating different CLI agents. Does the system support switching between multiple agents, or is that not currently implemented?

For now, we support switching between models within the same provider, but we're currently adding the ability to switch providers mid-session. We're working on agent switching similar to Cursor's LLM switch so you can seamlessly move between Claude Code, Codex, GLM, etc. during development. We're also exploring auto-switching based on task type, our model would automatically select the best agent for each task. For example, using Opus for frontend work and Codex for backend refactoring. The goal is to leverage each agent's strengths without you having to think about it.

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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
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