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Launch HN: Superset (YC P26) – IDE for the agents era

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Re: Launch HN: Superset (YC P26) – IDE for the agents era

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Post by avipeltz »

hermanschaaf wrote: post #15

At first glance, it looks similar to Conductor ( https://www.conductor.build/ ). It seems like a lot of these tools are converging on the same general ideas. Could you share a comparison with the other tools out there?

yeah there is a lot of overlap, we are more terminal first than conductor so you can do can use any cli agent you want. We have a lot more quality of life features around the terminal like notifications, and some things similar to tmux where if you kill the app or update your sessions stay alive and running. We also recently released remote workspaces so you can setup cloud workspaces for your agents. Id say if you like the chat experience conductor is still a bit more polished, we'll get to that level of polish soon, but if you care more about the terminal and cloud and more new integrations we are shipping superset is better.

Re: Launch HN: Superset (YC P26) – IDE for the agents era

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Post by jnovek »

avipeltz wrote: post #21
hermanschaaf wrote: post #15

At first glance, it looks similar to Conductor ( https://www.conductor.build/ ). It seems like a lot of these tools are converging on the same general ideas. Could you share a comparison with the other tools out there?

yeah there is a lot of overlap, we are more terminal first than conductor so you can do can use any cli agent you want. We have a lot more quality of life features around the terminal like notifications, and some things similar to tmux where if you kill the app or update your sessions stay alive and running. We also recently released remote workspaces so you can setup cloud workspaces for your agents. Id say if you l…

When you say “terminal first”, are you terminal-first enough that I could use vim buffers for editing?

Re: Launch HN: Superset (YC P26) – IDE for the agents era

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Post by saddlepaddle »

tdi wrote: post #17

No linear integration in free version and taxing it 20$/m is a bit steep.

That's fair! We do have more paid features (a slack integration, remote workspaces etc.) but yeah we haven't found the best balance for which tier to put each in for sure.

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Post by saddlepaddle »

toddmorey wrote: post #3

I agree with the hard part being managing state, especially environments and ports. I've never used lsof so much in my life. Question on Remote Workspace: Can the remote machine port forward so I can use a browser to see / test current state of the app on the remote machine?

On the docket! Right now the main thing we have enabled is the file system + terminals + ai agents through remote workspaces, but yes dev environments is definitely on the agenda :)

Re: Launch HN: Superset (YC P26) – IDE for the agents era

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Post by hoakiet98 »

micro23xd wrote: post #16

I've been using this for the past few months, and I love it! It's built exactly around my workflow with many worktrees in various repos open at the same time, sometimes with different agents working side-by-side. Before Superset I just used terminal tabs but simply couldn't manage more than like 20 terminal tabs without losing track, so i coudn't scale further. Now i'm running probably 40-50 agent sessions over sever…

awesome to hear this! 40-50 is definitely on the high end. Are you adding any workflow on top to manage that many?

Re: Launch HN: Superset (YC P26) – IDE for the agents era

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Post by saddlepaddle »

yannoninator wrote: post #2

How does this compare to Cursor? What happens if Cursor makes the exact same features as your product?

Actually Cursor is starting to converge with us as we speak! You can look at their new agents mode (which is now their default for new users) as an example.

For what happens, in our heads the end goal is building a software factory where dozens to hundreds of agents are always running - something that nobody has nailed the experience for yet. Until that's a solved problem I hope we have room to grow and build!

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Post by hoakiet98 »

jnovek wrote: post #22
avipeltz wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yeah there is a lot of overlap, we are more terminal first than conductor so you can do can use any cli agent you want. We have a lot more quality of life features around the terminal like notifications, and some things similar to tmux where if you kill the app or update your sessions stay alive and running. We also recently released remote workspaces so you can setup cloud workspaces for your agents. Id say if you l…

When you say “terminal first”, are you terminal-first enough that I could use vim buffers for editing?

yes, it's essentially a terminal with extra agent hooks tracked and more customized review flow. if it runs in a terminal it runs in Superset.

Re: Launch HN: Superset (YC P26) – IDE for the agents era

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Post by hoakiet98 »

xnx wrote: post #9
ddxv wrote: post #5

I'd love a comparison to what's already out there. Don't vscode, antigravity, cursor etc all have agents too?

Yes. Antigravity switched to primarily be an agent management tool (the previous version of the product became Antigravity IDE). Additionally, most advanced tools automatically spawn subagents.

biggest difference is it's terminal first, and optimized for CLI agents. we don't prescribe a specific harness and instead try to work with any CLI harness you bring.
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