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Launch HN: Spine Swarm (YC S23) – AI agents that collaborate on a visual canvas

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Re: Launch HN: Spine Swarm (YC S23) – AI agents that collaborate on a visual canvas

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Post by a24venka »

orky56 wrote: post #69

Congrats on the launch. Few pieces of feedback that are similar in nature to what has already been shared but unique in terms of solutions. 1) The chat interface as shared in the video is a prime starting point to capture intent but anchors viewers to what Spine is all about. Try a show-tell-show approach where you can demonstrate (ideally above the fold) a compelling output, credits used and agents leverages, and TH…

Really appreciate the detailed feedback.

1) Agreed on the show-tell-show framing: Chat is a natural starting point for people frustrated with linear interfaces, but you're right that the a-ha is the orchestration and outputs. We'll keep this in mind as we build out our gallery and demos going forward.

2) Right now our primary users are knowledge workers and researchers who need to do complex, multi-step work. The benchmarks help establish credibility, but we're building out more use case demos and a gallery to make it tangible for a broader audience. On the human-in-the-loop point, the agents do pause and come back to the user, and there is scope for iterations as well, but we haven't highlighted this well enough. We'll do a better job of showing that going forward.

Re: Launch HN: Spine Swarm (YC S23) – AI agents that collaborate on a visual canvas

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Post by dworks »

poly2it wrote: post #46
visekr wrote: post #37

whoa congrats on the launch. lol I launched my visual canvas for agents today too. I went in a more of a collaborative canvas IDE, agent orchestration direction. But very cool to see your take on it https://getmesa.dev is mine

It looks interesting, but is it really more efficient than a tiling window manager?

What his landing page shows is a workflow builder like n8n. It is indeed better than a window manager. I'm working on something related.

Re: Launch HN: Spine Swarm (YC S23) – AI agents that collaborate on a visual canvas

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Post by mochidusk »

BloondAndDoom wrote: post #19

I didn’t read the post, I checked out the website just like 99% of the people will do. Simple advice, if you are selling a product with a selling point of being visual, show it on your website. Not in a YouTube video but actual screenshots, short cut 10 sec video/gif

Exactly! This reminds me of prezi.com where they have a text box front and center - for a visual presentation tool!

Re: Launch HN: Spine Swarm (YC S23) – AI agents that collaborate on a visual canvas

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Post by mikodin »

nanookclaw wrote: post #70

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I am doing something very similar to this. I think the workspace _being_ the memory is the way. It's also enabled the workspace to be completely model and harness agnostic.

On top of that, I actually have it as an Obsidian vault, and I have the llm themselves use Obsidian markdown for the frontmatter and knowledge graph linking. It makes it very easy for me to navigate the data and interact in a way that is deeply enjoyable, and it also helps the model navigate the files.

Re: Launch HN: Spine Swarm (YC S23) – AI agents that collaborate on a visual canvas

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Post by mikodin »

a24venka wrote: post #44
johnyzee wrote: post #39

Calling it a 'canvas' makes me think that this tool is about AI agents doing some kind of collaborative drawing. Looking at the vid though, it seems more like an environment for visually organizing and managing agentic work (which seems very cool, and quite a bit more than just a canvas).

Agreed. The term has been overloaded lately. We also refer to it as a visual workspace which perhaps captures it a bit better.

I also expected it to be more art forward because of "canvas". Visual workspace draws a clear picture for me.

Re: Launch HN: Spine Swarm (YC S23) – AI agents that collaborate on a visual canvas

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Post by agentsbooks »

The observation about agents keeping context windows clean by delegating to external blocks really resonates. I've been building a platform for managing AI agents and hit the same wall — once you move from single-agent-in-a-chat to multi-agent orchestration, you need persistent structure outside the conversation. Canvas/block approach is one way, we went with a profile-hub model where each agent has its own identity, memory stores, and task queue. Curious how you handle permission boundaries between agents in a swarm — e.g. can one agent restrict what data another sees on the canvas? That's been one of the gnarlier problems in multi-agent systems.

Re: Launch HN: Spine Swarm (YC S23) – AI agents that collaborate on a visual canvas

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Post by bengale »

swyx wrote: post #56
a24venka wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really appreciate the detailed feedback and questions! And yes, we'll take the website criticism as a compliment :) Good callout on the canvas navigation, we'll look into middle mouse button support. To answer your questions: 1) GitHub integration is on our roadmap. Right now you can export outputs manually but we want to make this seamless. 2) All your canvases are saved and you can search them by name in your dashb…

> And yes, we'll take the website criticism as a compliment :) ugh. guys. come on. stop celebrating at the 1 yard line. people are telling you they didnt even look at the product becacuse your landing page was so bad. you wasted your launch HN linking directly to it, ofc thats the first thing people are going to give feedback on. fix it right now you still have time.

You often don’t want people like that on day 1 anyway.
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