Live data from Hacker News

Manus will return to operating as an independent company

manus.im

71–80 of 98 posts

Re: Manus will return to operating as an independent company

#71
I don’t actually care about this flash-in-the-pan company, but the name Manus is the reason startups should have a branding designer or branding agency do branding work before they’re too recognizable to change without throwing people off, but not large enough for anyone to learn about it organically (e.g. Meta, X). I can’t help but read it like ‘anus’ with an M in front of it.

People on the technical side of the business often insist people don’t care things like that, but when non-technical people are looking at a few services that seem roughly equivalent to them, even subconsciously, appeal plays a big role. And M’Anus is not appealing.

The fantasy that you’re building something so useful it will sell itself is magical thinking. Yet another reason AI will never replace designers— just screw up the job market for them.

Re: Manus will return to operating as an independent company

#72
post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

ChatGPT Work and Claude Cowork (and OpenClaw) are established now - they weren't at all in December 2025 when Meta tried to buy Manus.

In what bubble ChatGPT Work and Claude Cowork are established? I don't know anyone using it regularly and I'm in a bubble of people using lots of AI tools.

I guess your bubble is limited. Maybe you know that already?

Re: Manus will return to operating as an independent company

#73

Does anyone here use Manus actively? I found it worse than alternatives in the similar space (Claude, genspark, kagi research, etc.) and slightly baffling they were being acquired at a $2B valuation in the first place.

I use it for when I am on my iPad and am not at my computer. It is very good for computer use. That along with Minimax agent.

Re: Manus will return to operating as an independent company

#74
post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a counterpoint, the Accounting and Finance departments where I work are banned from using Cowork because it performed abysmally during a trial run. To put things in perspective, humans with a 25% lower error rate than Cowork are pip'd and usually let go. As with junior programmers and their love of vibe coding, I've found that anyone who thinks that AI tooling right now is "amazing" lacks the skills, knowledge, an…

Your anecdote is not powerful enough to justify insulting groups of people like you just did.

LOL. Outside of tech my "anecdote" is the standard experience for white collar workers. AI is universally loved by people too junior to understand when its wrong, and by execs who never understand when its wrong.

This will be like Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 all over again, and all the AI sycophants will be coming to the rest of us begging for new jobs that they're not qualified for.

Re: Manus will return to operating as an independent company

#75

I don’t actually care about this flash-in-the-pan company, but the name Manus is the reason startups should have a branding designer or branding agency do branding work before they’re too recognizable to change without throwing people off, but not large enough for anyone to learn about it organically (e.g. Meta, X). I can’t help but read it like ‘anus’ with an M in front of it. People on the technical side of the bus…

> I can’t help but read it like ‘anus’ with an M in front of it.

Duck Duck Go is really what's wrong with modern dating culture.

Re: Manus will return to operating as an independent company

#77
post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How much does it cost? ChatGPT costs ~$2 per message; if Anthropic have a similar pricing model don't you find lots of small changes and up fast?

"ChatGPT costs ~$2 per message"?

Enterprise pricing: 10 credits per message if not "Instant". Our monthly charge for 30k credits makes that around $2.

I might be out by a factor of 2/3 (automatically applied promo deals/credits make it very hard to be sure), but we get 3k messages per month for a seat count of ~60, and finance are concerned about cost.

$2 is probably a good deal for the Extra High 8 minutes of agentic searching/coding/etc when it one-shots a whole project.

$2 is a terrible deal for a 5 second instant retrieval.

Re: Manus will return to operating as an independent company

#78
post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How much does it cost? ChatGPT costs ~$2 per message; if Anthropic have a similar pricing model don't you find lots of small changes and up fast?

> ChatGPT costs ~$2 per message For what kind of message are you seeing that kind of charge?

All, enterprice chatgpt has flat pricing. https://help.openai.com/en/articles/11481834-chatgpt-rate-ca...

Re: Manus will return to operating as an independent company

#80

Does anyone here use Manus actively? I found it worse than alternatives in the similar space (Claude, genspark, kagi research, etc.) and slightly baffling they were being acquired at a $2B valuation in the first place.

I like it and use it regularly. Maybe I don't get other harnesses, but in my experience Manus gets shit done, whereas I have to constantly babysit other tools.
Post reply on HN