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Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open

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Re: Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open

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Post by apt-apt-apt-apt »

hx8 wrote: post #12

I switched from tmux to Herdr about six weeks ago. It's a great bit of software, the UI is focused on switching between multiple agents quickly. I run Herdr to keep my opencode instances well managed, and it also works great for having a few terminals opens next to your agent. I find myself keeping opencode sessions open for longer like what happens with Codex and Claude code, which is great if I need to revisit a co…

Honestly, how are you guys running multiple agents, presumably with them all writing code?

I find myself to be a huge bottleneck, having to do technical design and design reviews, to make sure they're actually working on the right things.

I feel like there's not enough coding work to justify multiple agents, that part doesn't take long, and then it's back to design again.

Re: Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open

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Post by rwz »

xyzsparetimexyz wrote: post #82
ernsheong wrote: post #78

Ironically a lot of YC hate despite the fact that we are literally in their forum.

Like the articles, hate the influence of VC on open source. Even if it stays open it still gets ruined. See Bun for an example.

I don't see how Bun is "ruined". In fact, I personally see Bun as example of the opposite — Rust rewrite seems like a huge success across the board.

I'm personally using the 1.4 canary (the rust rewrite version) and definitely plan on continuing using it in my future projects.

Re: Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open

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Post by yoyohello13 »

rajangdavis wrote: post #27
spudlyo wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Radix enim omnium malorum est cupiditas. Enshitification is sure to follow in one guise or another.

I don’t know that this qualifies as enshitification… on one hand, the author created something that scratched his own itch, shared it, and now it’s become a tool that he wishes to steward into a way where he can make money. I don’t know that these are terrible things inherently, it kind of depends if he wishes to extract as money as possible from his users by any means necessary or if he’s truly trying to scale it so…

Enshitification is 100% guaranteed with any vc backing. Maybe not now, but definitely in the future it is the literal point of venture capital. Gain adoption, then exploit to the maximum extent possible.

It’s fine to use these kind of tools, just don’t get too attached and be ready for the rug pull.

Re: Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open

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Post by yoyohello13 »

ValentineC wrote: post #6

> That’s why I recently switched it from AGPL to Apache: I want everyone to use Herdr freely, without any problem. I'm curious what the actual problems with AGPL were.

FUD, can’t take investment when your project actually enforces user freedom.

Re: Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open

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Post by yoyohello13 »

Taek wrote: post #97

This title is killing me. "The runtime stays open" is such a heavy, attention grabbing sentence, it's all I can stare at on the front page. It's the type of writing that makes me hate working with LLMs, because it's so powerful at monopolizing my attention, and makes it difficult for me to focus on any of the other words on the page (whether the front page, or the comments page).

You should read the Herdr front page. Is so full of AIism it hurts my head.

Re: Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open

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Post by bgnm2000 »

ahmadyan wrote: post #52

Congrats to Can on the pre-seed funding. genuinely wishing you all the best. The terminal multiplexer / multi-agent coding space is getting very crowded. YC alone has funded many competing startups in this space: herdr, Superset, cmux, Emdash, Orca, Bullet, Conductor (Conductor was in YC before pivoting from chat->coding). I’m probably missing a few, and that’s before counting companies outside YC such as Superlogica…

I’m the founder of scape.work - and it’s precisely why we’re not free, not open source. I want to build something with a mission of helping people own their infrastructure around AI tooling locally. If I raise money I am legally bound to my shareholders to create value, as opposed to my customers and my mission. Bootstrapping has never made more sense, when code is so cheap.

Re: Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open

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Post by killix »

miki123211 wrote: post #79
ahmadyan wrote: post #52

Congrats to Can on the pre-seed funding. genuinely wishing you all the best. The terminal multiplexer / multi-agent coding space is getting very crowded. YC alone has funded many competing startups in this space: herdr, Superset, cmux, Emdash, Orca, Bullet, Conductor (Conductor was in YC before pivoting from chat->coding). I’m probably missing a few, and that’s before counting companies outside YC such as Superlogica…

In practice, I suspect the entire category will be folded into Claude Code and Codex (Anthropic is already trying with Claude Agents), and that will do 80% of the job at 0% of the cost and configuration effort. External programs will still be useful for the tiny minority who wants different harnesses for different projects, but yeah, tiny minority.

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Re: Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open

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Post by tmzt »

A nice little asciinema demo would be helpful on the TUI page. I should be able to see what it is, how it presents the contained agents, etc.

I've been evaluating a few of these (and built one into another project I was working on, almost by accident), and am mostly looking for a frontend agnostic, terminal only (not harness) which can submit instructions to agents one line at at time with rate-limiting.

I was also surprised by tmux being built on shared memory when I tried to route it over a vsock to a VM. One of the annoyances with tmux is it's failure to forward environment changes to the individual tabs (such as an option when attaching), or allow for something like a ssh-agent forwarder (shouldn't be built in though).

Re: Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open

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Post by joegibbs »

Taek wrote: post #97

This title is killing me. "The runtime stays open" is such a heavy, attention grabbing sentence, it's all I can stare at on the front page. It's the type of writing that makes me hate working with LLMs, because it's so powerful at monopolizing my attention, and makes it difficult for me to focus on any of the other words on the page (whether the front page, or the comments page).

“The noun verbs.” is such an incredibly Claudeish sentence. The other models don’t do that stuff. I’d say it’s actually biggest tell for Claude writing.
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