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Re: Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code

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Post by commandar »

rovr138 wrote: post #37
commandar wrote: post #29

On the one hand, it's good that we're seeing a lot of exploration in this space. On the other, the trend seems to be everyone developing a million disparate tools that largely replicate the same functionality with the primary variation being greater-or-lesser lock-in to a particular set of services. This is about the third tool this week I've taken a quick look at and thought "I don't see what this offers me that I d…

Not tied to VSCode is a big one for me. This one is agnostic. Continue.dev has some features, but it’s on VSCode and Jetbrains

If you're opposed to using VSCode for whatever reason, that's reasonable. Though, for me personally, the fact that it only lets you use Claude Code strikes me as a much larger negative on net. It's not at all agnostic in terms of AI provider.

That said, VSCode is a popular platform for this for exactly the reason I think consolidation is eventually inevitable: it's got a huge preexisting ecosystem. There are extensions for practically anything you could ask for.

There's likely room for some standalone, focused apps in this space. I just don't see the current wave of "we put a wrapper around Claude Code and gave it some basic MCP and custom prompt management tools like a dozen other applications this week" being sustainable.

They're all going to end up on their own tiny islands unless there's a reason for an ecosystem to develop around them.

Re: Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code

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Post by eddieroger »

SOLAR_FIELDS wrote: post #36

Part of the reason that I enjoy Claude code is because it has no GUI

I was thinking the same. I like that being in my terminal makes it feel closer to a build tool than not, because that's the space it fills for me. I like that, because it's a terminal, if I connect to my main machine through SSH, it's right there waiting for me. I'm not saying there isn't room in the world for both, but so far I haven't felt the need for a GUI tool in this space.

Re: Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code

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Post by kelnos »

I get that some people go that way, but to me, the fact that Claude Code is a standalone terminal app is a strength, not a weakness. I don't really want or need a GUI here. "From Terminal Chaos to Visual Clarity" doesn't resonate with me; terminals to me are simpler and more structured.

At most, I've been thinking about installing one of the extensions to integrate Claude Code into (neo)vim, but even that I'm not sure I really want or need.

But for people who arm themselves to the teeth with GUIs and IDEs, I guess I can see the appeal.

Re: Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code

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Post by scottgg »

commandar wrote: post #38
scottgg wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m assuming/hoping this is gonna end up as regular plugins for existing IDEs

That's kind of what I mean though. Because I mentioned it and it's what I use daily: Roo is a VSCode extension. So you get the entire VSCode ecosystem for free. On the AI specific side, it has every feature this app highlights on its homepage and more. It works with just about any API provider and model you could ask for. I could probably translate my existing workflow over to Claudia pretty easily, but what does tha…

Didn’t know about roo! But I’m with you; I don’t see why folks are investing their efforts in building more of these shiny wrappers, and what their expected end game could be.

Re: Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code

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Post by [deleted] »

preommr wrote: post #19
zerealshadowban wrote: post #7

Claudia is open-source, made by a S24 YC company https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/asterisk

I definitely thought this was an anthropic thing that they were trying to spin off into it's own website and app for normies. I am not saying it's infringement, I am just saying that my dumb brain made that connection and I feel like it's not unreasonable to assume that other people might as well.

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Re: Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code

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Post by raincole »

commandar wrote: post #29

On the one hand, it's good that we're seeing a lot of exploration in this space. On the other, the trend seems to be everyone developing a million disparate tools that largely replicate the same functionality with the primary variation being greater-or-lesser lock-in to a particular set of services. This is about the third tool this week I've taken a quick look at and thought "I don't see what this offers me that I d…

> the trend seems to be everyone developing a million disparate tools

Which is super cool. Like during the dawn of web 2.0 we had lots of aggregators and forums instead of "Reddit and others."

(I'm not saying it's good UX.)

Re: Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code

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Post by christiangenco »

kelnos wrote: post #44

I get that some people go that way, but to me, the fact that Claude Code is a standalone terminal app is a strength, not a weakness. I don't really want or need a GUI here. "From Terminal Chaos to Visual Clarity" doesn't resonate with me; terminals to me are simpler and more structured. At most, I've been thinking about installing one of the extensions to integrate Claude Code into (neo)vim, but even that I'm not sur…

I'm with you on desktop but I've been craving some sort of way to interact with Claude Code from my phone while I'm out and about.

What I want at the core is to be able to open up access to my laptop's currently running Claude Code instance (without all these hacky backdoors that fork the chat with every message by using `--print`; I want a first class API that lets me append messages to the current chat), then I want to be able to send messages (with voice transcription) and approve/deny permissions and see the code diffs and all of that.

Maybe something like a Telegram bot? I had hopes for Claude Code UI[1] but the web interface is too clunky on mobile.

1. https://github.com/siteboon/claudecodeui

Re: Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code

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Post by yieldcrv »

commandar wrote: post #29

On the one hand, it's good that we're seeing a lot of exploration in this space. On the other, the trend seems to be everyone developing a million disparate tools that largely replicate the same functionality with the primary variation being greater-or-lesser lock-in to a particular set of services. This is about the third tool this week I've taken a quick look at and thought "I don't see what this offers me that I d…

I was with a fairly well acclimated woman the other day and mentioned something about chatgpt’s voice, she acted confused and asked if that was the paid version (it is)

But long story short she showed me what she had on her iphone and it was a totally different app that wrapped a text chat interface around chatgpt, it wasn’t even themed like to be a persona or anything but was at the expense of any multimodal capabilities

Just caught me off guard about how common that might be

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