Show HN: Tonkotsu – a developer app for managing a team of AI coding agents

https://www.tonkotsu.ai

2•derekcheng08•2h ago

Hey HN, I’m Derek, part of a small team of ex-Facebook engineers and designer building Tonkotsu.

We strongly believe that the future of software development requires every developer to become the tech lead of a team of agents. That shift requires new tools and workflows that go beyond existing IDEs or terminal agents.

Tonkotsu is our take on that next-gen tool. It’s a desktop app that lets developers plan technical work, delegate many coding tasks in parallel, and then review the diffs — all in one place. Our main difference is that we tightly integrate this plan > delegate > verify loop and scale it up so that every engineer can use it to manage a team of agents working in parallel.

Current status:

- macOS + Windows desktop app

- Free to use during early access

Demo video (2 min): https://www.tonkotsu.ai/demo

Download: https://www.tonkotsu.ai

We’re really curious to hear from people who are using multiple agents in parallel already. What do your workflows look like? Where are the bottlenecks?

Comments

derekcheng08•2h ago

Forgot to mention that an interesting behavior we see emerging is “human as editor”: let the agents make several commits in a branch, and then the human does a single refinement pass over it before raising a PR. Curious if others use this workflow or something else?

rolph•2h ago

do you really like tonkotsu ? is the name collision on purpose, or only coincidence?

Tonkotsu ramen:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonkotsu_ramen

derekcheng08•2h ago

I do really like Tonkotsu :)

But beyond that, we wanted a playful, accessible brand. We think dev tools (particularly ones like Tonkotsu) are consumer products and we didn't want the staid/corporate branding many tools have.

rolph•1h ago

im thinking about the properties of Tonkotsu [broth], in comparison/contrast to Tonkotsu [app] such as traditional, frugal, ubiquitous, vital, etc.

its one of the first things i consider when i see a duet like this.

i get a visual of a barren dev cubicle, with a young dev sitting at the terminal, slouched over a bowl of ramen, while coding.

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