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Launch HN: Nia (YC S25) – Give better context to coding agents

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Re: Launch HN: Nia (YC S25) – Give better context to coding agents

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Configure MCP Server One command to set up Nia MCP Server for your coding agent.

Select your coding agentCursor Installation method Local Remote Runs locally on your machine. More stable. Requires Python & pipx.

Create API Key test Create Organization required to create API keys

i can not create api key? the create button is grey and can not be pressed.

Re: Launch HN: Nia (YC S25) – Give better context to coding agents

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post #71

Configure MCP Server One command to set up Nia MCP Server for your coding agent. Select your coding agentCursor Installation method Local Remote Runs locally on your machine. More stable. Requires Python & pipx. Create API Key test Create Organization required to create API keys i can not create api key? the create button is grey and can not be pressed.

hey, what error does it throw?

Re: Launch HN: Nia (YC S25) – Give better context to coding agents

#73
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

i am interested in knowing what would be the correct way to do it according to your checklist. For example you said testimonial from twitter can be bots, which testimonial according to you would give you confidence that product is genuine?

Okay let's dissect it. First, I will say since this is a for-profit corporate website and they are trying to get something from me, I approach it with a fully skeptical, 0 benefit of doubt perspective. What's the gif supposed to tell me? It's supposed to demo the product and give me a feel for its capabilities. But it just flits around and goes so fast, offers zero explanation for anything, it just leaves me disorien…

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Re: Launch HN: Nia (YC S25) – Give better context to coding agents

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Okay let's dissect it. First, I will say since this is a for-profit corporate website and they are trying to get something from me, I approach it with a fully skeptical, 0 benefit of doubt perspective. What's the gif supposed to tell me? It's supposed to demo the product and give me a feel for its capabilities. But it just flits around and goes so fast, offers zero explanation for anything, it just leaves me disorien…

Well put. But what you’ve identified here is pretty much the norm for ~90% startup/SAAS sites. They all just regurgitate this formula.

Maybe worth considering whether this formula is still effective.

Re: Launch HN: Nia (YC S25) – Give better context to coding agents

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post #33

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(I detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46195560 because your comment is fine and I don't want it to be penalized.)

Thanks @dang

perhaps you should thing of launching a company to improve on hour tool, yc or not.

Re: Launch HN: Nia (YC S25) – Give better context to coding agents

#76
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Is the RAG database on your servers or is it local? If not local is there a local option?

hey! i use multiple DBs but the primary ones are turbopuffer and chroma for package search. they are really great re local, I do local for certain companies!

Nice. Huge congrats on the launch!!!

Re: Launch HN: Nia (YC S25) – Give better context to coding agents

#77
Very happy to see this since I am building in this domain. We need external and internal context though. I am aiming for always available context for current and related projects, reference projects, documentation, library usage, commands available (npm, python,...), tasks, past prompts, etc. all in one product. My product, nocodo (1), is built by coding agents, Claude Code (Sonnet only) and opencode (Grok Code Fast 1 and GLM 4.6).

I just made a video (2) on how I prompt with Claude Code, ask for research from related projects, build context with multiple documents, then converge into a task document, shared that with another coding agent, opencode (with Grok or GLM) and then review with Claude Code.

nocodo is itself a challenge for me: I do not write or review code line by line. I spend most of the time in this higher level context gathering, planning etc. All these techniques will be integrated and available inside nocodo. I do not use MCPs, and nocodo does not have MCPs.

I do not think plugging into existing coding agents work, not how I am building. I think building full-stack is the way, from prompt to deployed software. Consumers will step away from anything other than planning. The coding agent will be more a planning tool. Everything else will slowly vanish.

Cheers to more folks building here!

1. https://github.com/brainless/nocodo 2. https://youtu.be/Hw4IIAvRTlY

Re: Launch HN: Nia (YC S25) – Give better context to coding agents

#80
> The calling agent then decides how to use those snippets in its own prompt.

To be reductionist, it seems the claimed product value is "better RAG for code."

The difficulties with RAG are at least:

1. Chunking: how large and how is the beginning/end of a chunk determined

2. Given the above quote, how much or many RAG results are put into the context? It seems that the API caller makes this decision, but how?

I'm curious about your approach and how you evaluated it.

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