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Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop
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Re: Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop
#32What I'm looking for right now is a tool like this that lets more than one person participate in the conversation: right now Claude Code and similar tools are great for working alone, but I'd like to effectively pair-prompt with a partner who can see what's happening, and take turns steering the conversation. Can Rowboat do this? If not, does anybody know a harness that can?
This isn't exactly what you're looking for but for just the coding part, I am working on https://www.buildautomaton.com to allow multiple people to participate on a shared coding session. It's also bring your own agent subscription, uses ACP to talk to any agent (Cursor, Claude, Codex, etc), and is end-to-end encrypted for most of your IP.
Re: Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop
#33Super neat; will test. Initial read suggests the memory accretion continues indefinitely. Asking partially since I am still working on a personal way to deal with that as an issue: Any plans for a more opinionated way to handle memory ( but still within user's control )? edit: syntax
Update. It has a lot of potential ( and it did get better since I remember it from the original ShowHN ). There are pieces missing, but this may be a project to which I can happily contribute the pieces I think are missing.
Re: Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop
#34What I'm looking for right now is a tool like this that lets more than one person participate in the conversation: right now Claude Code and similar tools are great for working alone, but I'd like to effectively pair-prompt with a partner who can see what's happening, and take turns steering the conversation. Can Rowboat do this? If not, does anybody know a harness that can?
Rather than a single application, is it possible to run a VM and have multiple remote access sharing one login session?
I get that great pains have been made to make sure that doesn't happen by default. But if you really want to co-op on something, why not at the session level on a dedicated VM/login pair?
Re: Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop
#35The growing problem with this and many other AI offerings is the asymmetry of effort. All of them take my notes, meeting transcripts, jira tickets, code, websites, and give me more to read. Then everyone else in the org is doing the same, to give me more to read. At the end of the day there is too much to read. AI is supposed to be reducing toil, but it's just making more.
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Re: Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop
#36Look really great! I'm a bit sad that the only way to connect to email is gmail. Is a generic IMAP connector on your roadmap?
Re: Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop
#37What I'm looking for right now is a tool like this that lets more than one person participate in the conversation: right now Claude Code and similar tools are great for working alone, but I'd like to effectively pair-prompt with a partner who can see what's happening, and take turns steering the conversation. Can Rowboat do this? If not, does anybody know a harness that can?
Disclaimer: I'm part of the team building it
That's what Amp is built around!
By default conversations are shares in your team (you can also make them private), and the agent has access to them.
So you can do things like "how would $teammate think about this" and the agent will read your colleague's conversations with Amp to get a feel for that and evaluate your work based on that.
Or just figuring out what everyone is doing at the moment is much easier that way
Re: Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop
#38What I'm looking for right now is a tool like this that lets more than one person participate in the conversation: right now Claude Code and similar tools are great for working alone, but I'd like to effectively pair-prompt with a partner who can see what's happening, and take turns steering the conversation. Can Rowboat do this? If not, does anybody know a harness that can?
Rather than a single application, is it possible to run a VM and have multiple remote access sharing one login session? I get that great pains have been made to make sure that doesn't happen by default. But if you really want to co-op on something, why not at the session level on a dedicated VM/login pair?
Today the UI and the server run as a single app. We're working on separating that, so you could technically have one server with multiple clients. But even then, for collaboration with others, there are two issues with sharing a login session: (1) the system doesn't know these are two separate people, and (2) it has access to someone's email etc. - if it doesn't know who the user is, everyone gets the same access and can run anything.
That's why we're exploring a peer-to-peer setup for group chats instead. Each person keeps their own machine and data, and the assistant knows who's who and can ask the primary user for permission if the secondary user wants to run something non-trivial.
Re: Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop
#39Another wrapper . Guys please build something real, AI cost too much $$ to just keep building things that already exist.
Re: Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop
#40this is the first harness ive been excited to try in a while. looks pretty feature rich and suits most of my needs.
Thanks, that's great to hear. Would love to know how it goes once you've tried it - and if anything's missing for your setup, let us know (we are active on Discord).