Someone already made a clone with 15K stars: https://github.com/mannaandpoem/OpenManus
How does a repo get 15k stars in just 2 days?
Bots and payola
Leave It to Manus
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#22Agree about changing the name. Manus is the joke name of child in a British TV comedy called Amandaland. It's more of a joke name than anything.
Manus means 'hand' in Latin. I thought that was the idea. Their logo is a picture of a hand, too. English "manuscript" comes from it.
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#23Feedback: change the name The current name will prevent this product/company from ever making it to the mainstream, or at least make it way less likely. A great name can truly make a huge difference. An OK name that sticks is a necessity. A name that is mostly “anus” is actively bad.
I really thought this name was from the common word for "human" in many languages across India. Slightly different pronunciations in some languages but I think many Indians would relate to the word as a derivative of "human".
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#24What is the value add here over existing frameworks for multi-agent workflows?
Back in the day, AutoGPT was trying to do the same thing. I wonder what became of it.
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#25Feedback: change the name The current name will prevent this product/company from ever making it to the mainstream, or at least make it way less likely. A great name can truly make a huge difference. An OK name that sticks is a necessity. A name that is mostly “anus” is actively bad.
I imagined it was short for "manuscript", as "manus" is the Swedish word for it. I also have a friend named Manu, who I imagine is hoping her name doesn't get Alexa'd.
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#26Someone already made a clone with 15K stars: https://github.com/mannaandpoem/OpenManus
I've been building something very similar, but OSS and running in the terminal, since 2023 (3.5k stars): https://github.com/ErikBjare/gptme
Currently working on building out a web UI (https://chat.gptme.org) and managed service for it.
Manus also seems very similar to Claude Code (but not open source either).
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#27What is the value add here over existing frameworks for multi-agent workflows?
Back in the day, AutoGPT was trying to do the same thing. I wonder what became of it.
I've been building the same thing since 2023. It works really well, and was most recently pretty much cloned by Claude Code: https://github.com/ErikBjare/gptme
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#28Feedback: change the name The current name will prevent this product/company from ever making it to the mainstream, or at least make it way less likely. A great name can truly make a huge difference. An OK name that sticks is a necessity. A name that is mostly “anus” is actively bad.
I imagined it was short for "manuscript", as "manus" is the Swedish word for it. I also have a friend named Manu, who I imagine is hoping her name doesn't get Alexa'd.
The etymology of "manuscript" is from Latin "manu" by hand "script" (scriptus) written.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Back in the day, AutoGPT was trying to do the same thing. I wonder what became of it.
I've been building the same thing since 2023. It works really well, and was most recently pretty much cloned by Claude Code: https://github.com/ErikBjare/gptme
How do you figure claude code pretty much cloned this as opposed to aider or other CLI-based tools with similar features? Anything in particular?
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#30Feedback: change the name The current name will prevent this product/company from ever making it to the mainstream, or at least make it way less likely. A great name can truly make a huge difference. An OK name that sticks is a necessity. A name that is mostly “anus” is actively bad.
To the OP, I say forget this advice. There's a headhunting company called Monster, arguably the worst possible name, especially for that business. Last time I checked they were doing fine. The truly worst thing is not being talked about. Manus means hand in Latin, not a bad name at all for a tool that lends you a hand. Some people will recognize this, others not. They'll be fine, or if not, it won't be for that reaso…
Not only hand, but force, violence, etc.: https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext...