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Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code

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Re: Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code

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post #61

That video on the homepage is insane... please for the sake of your amazing app, slow it down and make it less frantic! (Super rapid zooming in and out, flying all over screen at 3x speed, must cover eyes!!)

Engineers often see no value in what marketers do. This video is what they don't do.

Wait, you are somehow sure that no marketer was involved in making this video? Seems unlikely

Re: Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code

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post #4

Really good idea, I’ll have to try it out. The thing I really want is to have the ability to give a recipe for a new Claude code instance - spin up a docker image with code, data, and a running server and then let Claude work against that.

Hey, it's not well known but Anthropic actually publishes their own devcontainer feature layer for this (1). Many different CLI wrappers and tools are starting to imbed it (2) but is a nice DIY/open-source way to sandbox.

1. https://github.com/anthropics/devcontainer-features 2. shameless plug, my own open-source CLI for doing this: https://github.com/smithclay/claudetainer

Re: Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code

#78
Personally I like the UI for https://conductor.build/ a lot more than this, although I'll have to give it a try.

I see a lot of commenters asking why a GUI is necessary. When you're running several agents in parallel it becomes very handy compared to the terminal. I can easily see the status of each which I haven't found a good equivalent for when using terminal tabs. Also it handles automatically creating git worktrees for each agent which is great.

Re: Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code

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I like that it's not mutually exclusive with normal Claude Code usage in terminal.

Question about Dashboard - I'm on subscription plan, and Dashboard shows - "Total Cost: $XX.YY". Is it somehow representitive towards how much credit I used in my plan, or it's just showing a costs it would take if I was using API instead?

Re: Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code

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On the one hand, it's good that we're seeing a lot of exploration in this space. On the other, the trend seems to be everyone developing a million disparate tools that largely replicate the same functionality with the primary variation being greater-or-lesser lock-in to a particular set of services. This is about the third tool this week I've taken a quick look at and thought "I don't see what this offers me that I d…

> the trend seems to be everyone developing a million disparate tools Which is super cool. Like during the dawn of web 2.0 we had lots of aggregators and forums instead of "Reddit and others." (I'm not saying it's good UX.)

> Like during the dawn of web 2.0 we had lots of aggregators and forums instead of "Reddit and others."

So, in other words, this is the exact opposite? “Lost of aggregators and forums” meant diversity. Lots of small players doing their own thing. What we have now is a handful of big players, and then tons of small players accessing those services with a different coat of paint. It’s like if the web you mention consisted of lots of people doing alternative interfaces to access Facebook and Reddit.

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