How do you guys plan to sustain the business, given that your product here is open source & already has many competitors doing similar things?
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
#32The FAQ says "Superset has a free tier. The source code is available on GitHub under Elastic License 2.0 (ELv2), so you can inspect and self-host it subject to the license terms." - what is self hosting in this context, isn't it a desktop app? Is this why it wants me to sign into something? What exactly am I signing in to?
Re: Launch HN: Superset (YC P26) – IDE for the agents era
#33Personally, IDE for the agent era is just Linux.
Kitty with oh-my-zsh, lazyvim and an agent. The entire thing is an ide. If I need to refactor, query data and interact with the system I just use native tools like rg+fastmod, bash, awk, jq... Either writing myself of asking an agent to do the heavy lifting.
Linux in the agent era is a breeze to operate and reason about, so the whole thing becomes a single development environment that's really light on resources and effective.
Re: Launch HN: Superset (YC P26) – IDE for the agents era
#34is it terminal on steroids some kind of? so you can manage mutiple coding agents? how many coding agents you can manage in parallel that it is still comfortable to work and code changes are meaningful
yes, we surface agent states automatically so you can see what's running or needs attention across the different workspaces. there's a set of tasks where having 5-6 running in parallel is still productive for me such as running spikes and fixing small issue.
As we're investing more into integration test and self-validating for the agents we're able to increase the number without sacrificing quality.
Re: Launch HN: Superset (YC P26) – IDE for the agents era
#35How do you guys plan to sustain the business, given that your product here is open source & already has many competitors doing similar things?
So far we've been growing pretty healthily all things considered!
I think one thing to remember is that the other side of us having dozens of competitors is that if the space couldn't sustain more than 1-2 parallel agent companies, a lot fewer of us would exist. We also will have a lot of time to continue creating value for our customers in the future in new ways :)
Re: Launch HN: Superset (YC P26) – IDE for the agents era
#36The FAQ says "Superset has a free tier. The source code is available on GitHub under Elastic License 2.0 (ELv2), so you can inspect and self-host it subject to the license terms." - what is self hosting in this context, isn't it a desktop app? Is this why it wants me to sign into something? What exactly am I signing in to?
So we also ship a cloud service along with Superset, which enables our Linear integration, Slack integration, and our multiplayer capabilities / remote workspaces.
When you sign in, you're signing into our cloud service!
Re: Launch HN: Superset (YC P26) – IDE for the agents era
#37Personally, IDE for the agent era is just Linux. Kitty with oh-my-zsh, lazyvim and an agent. The entire thing is an ide. If I need to refactor, query data and interact with the system I just use native tools like rg+fastmod, bash, awk, jq... Either writing myself of asking an agent to do the heavy lifting. Linux in the agent era is a breeze to operate and reason about, so the whole thing becomes a single development…
That's an interesting take! Basically Linux / a computer is everything you need to ship code.
If I could provide one gentle pushback - the same way there's utility in OMZ, lazyvim etc., there may be utility in us shipping our CLI etc. - there must exist some software we can build that'll be useful to you as well :)
Re: Launch HN: Superset (YC P26) – IDE for the agents era
#38The FAQ says "Superset has a free tier. The source code is available on GitHub under Elastic License 2.0 (ELv2), so you can inspect and self-host it subject to the license terms." - what is self hosting in this context, isn't it a desktop app? Is this why it wants me to sign into something? What exactly am I signing in to?
So we also ship a cloud service along with Superset, which enables our Linear integration, Slack integration, and our multiplayer capabilities / remote workspaces. When you sign in, you're signing into our cloud service!
Got you, thanks. So if I don't need those things I can skip the sign-in?
Re: Launch HN: Superset (YC P26) – IDE for the agents era
#39How do you guys plan to sustain the business, given that your product here is open source & already has many competitors doing similar things?
we monetize on teams and, in the future, cloud. the bet is that teams will want to centralize their set up for this type of work, especially shared Linear, GitHub, skills, etc.
Re: Launch HN: Superset (YC P26) – IDE for the agents era
#40I used Superset for quite a while until a month ago. There were some annoying issues, with freezing and terminal not being rendered how it should be. And they did repeated fixes that didn't really solve it. Since I had work to do I moved on.
I installed Zellij on my server where most of work is happening and local machine and this works well for me. There are other issues I have now, but overall flow is fairly natural to what I am doing.
I liked that they did integrate a lot of agent workflow in Superset but my experience was that it would just take too many resources and especially with glitches, it wasn't worth it continuing. I had a period where i enjoyed working in it. It is vibe coded electron app, 2GB! is too much for this kind of app.
I just updated to their new version... it supposedly imported my projects but I can't find anything... so... I guess this is it.