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Re:Conductor Is Joining Meta by paultannenbaum on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @02:20PM (#50370274)
Heavy conductor user here. Does the hacker news community have any suggestions for replacements?
Re:Conductor Is Joining Meta by priyadarshy on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @02:25PM (#50370327)
macro.land
Re:Conductor Is Joining Meta by harryck9 on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @02:25PM (#50370328)
Paseo is great
Re:Conductor Is Joining Meta by 2001zhaozhao on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @02:27PM (#50370357)
I will always recommend T3 Code, it is by far the best one I have tried that isn't glued to a specific model provider. Trades blows with Codex / Claude Desktop in terms of features. All of the other orchestrators are far behind

(I am building my own tool in this area and I literally downloaded and tried all of them as market research)

Re:Conductor Is Joining Meta by isege on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @02:32PM (#50370424)
I second this. T3 code especially for remote machine workflows is unmatched.
Re:Conductor Is Joining Meta by yewenjie on Thursday November 05, 2026 @01:27AM (#50375874)
Wait, there's something called Claude Desktop that's actually useful for non-non-technical people?
Re:Conductor Is Joining Meta by 0xb0565e486 on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @02:28PM (#50370376)
Claude or ChatGPT
Re:Conductor Is Joining Meta by 217 on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @02:33PM (#50370438)
tern or orca or bb or vanilla claude code desktop / codex desktop
Re:Conductor Is Joining Meta by fabioz on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @02:35PM (#50370447)
Check Beolis (https://beolis.com).

Disclaimer: I'm developing it.

Re:Conductor Is Joining Meta by hmokiguess on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @02:38PM (#50370473)
Re:Conductor Is Joining Meta by jl35db on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @02:42PM (#50370524)
boxes.dev!
Re:Conductor Is Joining Meta by mickeyp on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @02:48PM (#50370589)
Give my dreamcoder.ai harness a whirl. Runs in your browser on all 3 platforms. Tiling window manager; generous use of keyboard shortcuts, so it's not just for mouse users.
Re:Conductor Is Joining Meta by fabianlindfors on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @03:22PM (#50370960)
getbb.app
Re:Conductor Is Joining Meta by feverishaaron on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @03:45PM (#50371242)
Agentastic is great for mac users. I'm hoping the project gets a boost with this acquistion.
Re:Conductor Is Joining Meta by hoakiet98 on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @04:16PM (#50371655)
I'm obviously biased but Paradev, it imports your Conductor worktrees as is https://paradev.com
Re:Conductor Is Joining Meta by skorobogatko on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @04:44PM (#50371990)
buzzpot.app :)
Re:Conductor Is Joining Meta by fumplethumb on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @05:11PM (#50372243)
https://ampcode.com/ is amazing! Surprised the community here does not discuss it more.
Re:Conductor Is Joining Meta by rramon on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @11:33PM (#50375224)
Could be a Laravel and PHP X bubble thing, former JS/TS only devs mostly seem to promote T3.
Re:Conductor Is Joining Meta by twalla on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @05:15PM (#50372274)
there are so many and I'm sure something has changed since I last checked but:

- paseo: open, mobile app is a first class citizen, i've been happy with it

- orca: vc backed, featureful (built in ios sim, for example)

- herdr: vc backed, terminal native, im sure there are more features since i last checked it

- t3: open, never used it but folks seem to like it

Re:Conductor Is Joining Meta by nwparker on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @05:23PM (#50372338)
https://orca.dev I think it's probably the easiest switch (Conductor imports).

Am I biased? Perhaps!

Re:Conductor Is Joining Meta by mchusma on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @05:36PM (#50372452)
I switched from conductor to orca because conductor didn’t support mobile app working with local instances and didn’t have a good cli/mcp at the time.

Very happy I switched. I’m extremely productive on mobile. It defiiitely feels power usery but i am one so it works great.

My only gripe is sometimes it loses connections to workspaces in a way that is hard to recover BUT the meta conductor living on top can resolve it for me. Kudos for having it.

Re:Conductor Is Joining Meta by nwparker on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @05:52PM (#50372588)
If you make a GH issues for your connection problem we can also probably get to the bottom of it!
Re:Conductor Is Joining Meta by j1mc on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @07:46PM (#50373543)
appImage is not a great packaging format for Linux. Any chance you could ship a flatpak instead? You'd likely need to host your own flatpak remote, but it's not rocket surgery.

Thank you for your consideration and for your work.

Re:Conductor Is Joining Meta by umbra07 on Thursday November 05, 2026 @05:34AM (#50377538)
It is far, far easier to convert an AppImage into a Flatpak (or any other packaging form) than vice versa.

If a dev is only going to choose one, I'd much rather they ship an AppImage.

Re:Conductor Is Joining Meta by FriendlyMike on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @05:37PM (#50372462)
Free 3 month sub to any current Conductor user. We promise to never sell to Facebook, X or other weirdo billionaires. I started this company to get away from working at big tech and not to sell to it. Up to 10 cloud workspaces per person, works with all the things you need. https://hive.codes/signup
Re:Conductor Is Joining Meta by FriendlyMike on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @06:19PM (#50372810)
Re:Conductor Is Joining Meta by t1ll on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @05:39PM (#50372477)
I'm one of the founders of https://podium.do. We created Podium because none of the other ADEs worked like what we wanted. I think it could be interesting for you to checkout as an alternative because there are similarities to Conductor, plus a few interesting additional features. We are pretty strong for complex tasks because we put an agent native issue tracker at the core of architecture which turned out as a super power in that case.
Re:Conductor Is Joining Meta by wslh on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @06:19PM (#50372806)
Does Podium support Gemini?
Re:Conductor Is Joining Meta by gateauxd on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @05:44PM (#50372531)
Re:Conductor Is Joining Meta by davecyen on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @05:46PM (#50372547)
I use Paradev (https://paradev.com - previously Superset) and it's great. They posted a migration guide today https://docs.paradev.com/migrate-from-conductor
Re:Conductor Is Joining Meta by ball_of_lint on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @06:17PM (#50372793)
Re:Conductor Is Joining Meta by doomspork on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @06:29PM (#50372895)
Re:Conductor Is Joining Meta by bgnm2000 on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @08:25PM (#50373852)
highly recommend https://www.scape.work - it's unlimited agents in parallel, and unlimited orchestrators in parallel.
Re:Conductor Is Joining Meta by pkilgore on Thursday November 05, 2026 @05:50AM (#50377647)
I moved to Paseo. Open source and let's you drive from your phone.
Re:Conductor Is Joining Meta by d4rkp4ttern on Thursday November 05, 2026 @09:26AM (#50379458)
No time to try other options but I’m betting on Rex from Superlogical -

https://www.superlogical.com/rex

Re:Conductor Is Joining Meta by Darmani on Thursday November 05, 2026 @07:07PM (#50386401)
[delayed]
Re:Conductor Is Joining Meta by markmark on Thursday November 05, 2026 @11:48PM (#50388360)
I'd already swapped to T3, at least it might survive the founders getting acquihired since it's open source.
Re:Conductor Is Joining Meta by tomowers on Friday November 06, 2026 @01:03PM (#50395930)
Have also built my own that's used internally at posthog - talyn.dev - also all open source, sandboxes, and local git support. Check it out, lemme know what you think