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Launch HN: Superset (YC P26) – IDE for the agents era

https://github.com/superset-sh/superset
18•avipeltz•1h ago
Hey HN, we’re Avi, Kiet, and Satya. We’re building Superset (https://github.com/superset-sh/superset), an open-source agentic IDE for running coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode etc in parallel.

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWDHn7gUwfg

Try it: https://superset.sh/

We’re three engineers who’ve built and maintained large codebases, and we kept wanting to work on more than one thing at a time. Once CLI coding agents got good enough we found ourselves running several of them in parallel: triaging Github issues, adding a few ui features, reviewing PRs, researching a refactor, etc.

The funny part was that we and a lot of our friends had all hacked together similar scripts around git worktrees. Worktrees are a nice primitive for this because each agent can get an isolated copy of the repo, but the workflows around them can feel pretty messy, setting up/tearing down environments and managing dev servers.

We first posted here a few months ago when Superset was mostly an open-source terminal for managing git worktrees (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46368739). Since then, it has changed a lot based on feedback from people using it on real codebases, plus contributions from our open-source community. The product has grown into something closer to an IDE for managing agent work across many worktrees, repos, and machines.

The biggest thing we learned is that the hard part is not just “run more agents.” It is managing all the state around them: worktrees, ports, terminal sessions, environment setup, diffs, tasks, and PRs. Once you have five or ten agents running, the bottleneck often becomes remembering what each one is doing and actual human review. We added task / issue tracking so work can move from issue → agent → diff → PR → review without losing the context all in Superset. But there's a lot more work to improve this experience over time.

We also launched Remote Workspaces, currently in beta. The idea is that you can run coding agents on remote machines instead of using all the memory and CPU on your laptop, while still managing the work from the Superset desktop app.To support Remote workspaces, we isolated the core functionality of our Electron app into a headless Hono server such that it can be deployed into any workspaces and talk to any client (such as our desktop app, mobile, web, etc) and still provide the same interface that our desktop app has.

A lot of our next work is around making agent work easier to manage when you are not sitting at your main dev machine. We’re building more functionality into the Superset CLI, improving remote workspace flows, and working on Superset Mobile (coming soon) so you can check on agents, review progress, and steer work from your phone.

We’d love more feedback on Superset, especially if you are daily driving coding agents!

Comments

yannoninator•51m ago
How does this compare to Cursor?

What happens if Cursor makes the exact same features as your product?

toddmorey•48m ago
I agree with the hard part being managing state, especially environments and ports. I've never used lsof so much in my life.

Question on Remote Workspace: Can the remote machine port forward so I can use a browser to see / test current state of the app on the remote machine?

saddlepaddle•5m ago
On the docket! Right now the main thing we have enabled is the file system + terminals + ai agents through remote workspaces, but yes dev environments is definitely on the agenda :)
bobchadwick•48m ago
I thought this was somehow related to Apache Superset.

https://superset.apache.org/

saddlepaddle•6m ago
Ah actually we're unaffiliated!
ddxv•48m ago
I'd love a comparison to what's already out there. Don't vscode, antigravity, cursor etc all have agents too?
xnx•37m ago
Yes. Antigravity switched to primarily be an agent management tool (the previous version of the product became Antigravity IDE). Additionally, most advanced tools automatically spawn subagents.
survirtual•39m ago
Nice. In the right track. I made something similar, but focused on local agents, but we both have issue tracking for managing multiple project and agents in parallel. It works, I think people will be surprised when they start using systems like this.

It is very different from current editors and the direction they are going in. In a way, it undermines the direction they are going. Current editors aim to make engineers 10x or 100x. These editors aim at a different target than the engineers. I will leave it to the imagination on who.

avipeltz•29m ago
thanks! yeah we daily drive superset so it definitely has been working for us, and yeah these tools are gonna end up looking pretty interesting :)
brod_ie•37m ago
Binding the shell <-> local git clone automatically feels like the future. Great work.
avipeltz•33m ago
thanks! give it a try :) https://github.com/superset-sh/superset
xnx•36m ago
Confusing name. Superset is already an established analytics tool.
jimmydoe•30m ago
zed , orca , /.+mux.*/ , ...

they all look incredibly / increasingly the same?

avipeltz•25m ago
yeah i think theres a lot of ux conventions that are starting to get figured out, but we do want to be different. At least right now most dont well support remote workspace, issue tracking, or review. I bet most of the current ux patterns will look very different in a year
hermanschaaf•29m ago
At first glance, it looks similar to Conductor (https://www.conductor.build/). It seems like a lot of these tools are converging on the same general ideas.

Could you share a comparison with the other tools out there?

avipeltz•16m ago
yeah there is a lot of overlap, we are more terminal first than conductor so you can do can use any cli agent you want. We have a lot more quality of life features around the terminal like notifications, and some things similar to tmux where if you kill the app or update your sessions stay alive and running. We also recently released remote workspaces so you can setup cloud workspaces for your agents. Id say if you like the chat experience conductor is still a bit more polished, we'll get to that level of polish soon, but if you care more about the terminal and cloud and more new integrations we are shipping superset is better.
jnovek•8m ago
When you say “terminal first”, are you terminal-first enough that I could use vim buffers for editing?
micro23xd•29m ago
I've been using this for the past few months, and I love it! It's built exactly around my workflow with many worktrees in various repos open at the same time, sometimes with different agents working side-by-side. Before Superset I just used terminal tabs but simply couldn't manage more than like 20 terminal tabs without losing track, so i coudn't scale further. Now i'm running probably 40-50 agent sessions over several repos simultaneously without any issues and losing track! Keep up the good work guys!
avipeltz•24m ago
glad to hear it! thank you!
hoakiet98•4m ago
awesome to hear this! 40-50 is definitely on the high end. Are you adding any workflow on top to manage that many?
tdi•27m ago
No linear integration in free version and taxing it 20$/m is a bit steep.
saddlepaddle•7m ago
That's fair! We do have more paid features (a slack integration, remote workspaces etc.) but yeah we haven't found the best balance for which tier to put each in for sure.

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