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Re: Show HN: OpenWork – An open-source alternative to Claude Cowork

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Post by ben_talent »

browningstreet wrote: post #26

Personally I’m skeptical and a bit dismissive of an insta- clone of commercial offerings. I ignore these things until they’re 3-6 months old and still iterating. Announcements on their own are like whispers.

Completely understand. It's up to us to keep shippinh and making this actually good during that time!

Re: Show HN: OpenWork – An open-source alternative to Claude Cowork

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Post by verdverm »

ben_talent wrote: post #16
imiric wrote: post #14

The word "open" in software names has completely lost its meaning.

I used "open" because: - it's open source - built on top of open source (opencode) - it's built-around extensibility via plain-text files (skills) and open-source plugins

If everyone put "open" in their project's name because it was open source, almost all the software we use would have "open" in the name

The open source / open plugins / text files is not unique to your project. The majority of the ai tooling space is open in the same way

Re: Show HN: OpenWork – An open-source alternative to Claude Cowork

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Post by preetnation »

ben_talent wrote: post #32
browningstreet wrote: post #26

Personally I’m skeptical and a bit dismissive of an insta- clone of commercial offerings. I ignore these things until they’re 3-6 months old and still iterating. Announcements on their own are like whispers.

Completely understand. It's up to us to keep shippinh and making this actually good during that time!

respect the attitude!

Re: Show HN: OpenWork – An open-source alternative to Claude Cowork

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Post by exitb »

browningstreet wrote: post #26

Personally I’m skeptical and a bit dismissive of an insta- clone of commercial offerings. I ignore these things until they’re 3-6 months old and still iterating. Announcements on their own are like whispers.

What if the commercial offering was made in less than 2 weeks?

https://x.com/altryne/status/2010811222409756707

Re: Show HN: OpenWork – An open-source alternative to Claude Cowork

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Post by kewun »

McAdam wrote: post #10

Still feels a bit technical. The Claude approach is designed for "Susan in Accounting" - what thoughts do you have to reduce the technical barriers?

I wonder if most "Susan in Accounting" even know what Claude is. They then have to know to get Claude desktop, get the max plan in order to get Cowork. Most people live on the cloud, so they'll need to get the Claude browser plugin as well to integrate with Cowork.

I'm curious to see if Anthropic can actually win over these non-technical folks as there's still quite a few hurdles for them to get over.

Re: Show HN: OpenWork – An open-source alternative to Claude Cowork

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Post by supriyo-biswas »

browningstreet wrote: post #26

Personally I’m skeptical and a bit dismissive of an insta- clone of commercial offerings. I ignore these things until they’re 3-6 months old and still iterating. Announcements on their own are like whispers.

The uncomfortable truth is that the marginal cost of producing software (if one doesn't care too much about quality or predictability) has now become near zero with AI; and therefore we will see many companies products being challenged in this way. Of course, Anthropic will have a leg up in terms of subsidized models provided along with a subscription, etc.
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