Conductor Is Joining Meta

https://www.conductor.build/changelog/0.93.0-conductor-is-joining-meta

36•askedrelic•1h ago

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markerz•59m ago

Things will shut down over the next few months. https://www.conductor.build/announcement:

    Wednesday, Nov 4 New users can no longer sign up for Conductor or download the app.

    Friday, Nov 13 Conductor Cloud goes read-only

    Local Conductor will continue working as normal for now. It will start winding down in early 2027.

Flashback to Cloudflare acquiring Deno and hiding the shutdown at the bottom of their announcement -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50019911.

BowBun•57m ago

Gah this sucks! Conductor is my main development tool. Now I'm forced to look for alternatives. Why can't they open source it?

freedomben•44m ago

Over the years I've gotten extremely conservative with adopting any new tooling into my workflow, for exactly reasons like this.

paaloeye•39m ago

With labs spending their fundings left and right and vibe-coding, it's absolutely irresponsible to adopt anything less than 18 months old.

trcf23•42m ago

Not tried it yet but DeltaDB from ZED (and ZED editor more generally) could cover it for you and they are open source.

mfe7•41m ago

I switched to paseo.sh several months ago. It's just as good if not better.

Philip-J-Fry•19m ago

Western AI giants have hundreds of billions of dollars to make back in a world where China is releasing open source tooling and open weights models. How else does they make their money back other than finding _something_ proprietary to sell.

techmunky•13m ago

respectfully, its a claude wrapper. with that said if you really can't live without it-- you have the binary, you know what to do.

paaloeye•55m ago

I'm so glad I haven't even heard of them

forthwall•45m ago

The economics of these harnesses I don't think lend to many winners, the model usage plans the big guys have at offer will always undercut the small players no matter how much they try to resell an openmodel for $20/mo. Congrats to the team though!

iamunr•45m ago

Literally just went to go "all in" on conductor yesterday, and buy into their cloud setup and hope the company keeps going.

And today we're doing a refund + moving the org to t3.codes instead.

Boo Meta. Boooooooo.

paaloeye•42m ago

Not sure which one is worse: Meta or Theo

sgallant•41m ago

Theo's awesome!

Handy-Man•22m ago

He is just annoying, otherwise he is fine.

gdulli•44m ago

Everything you add to your tech stack is a liability. Period. I've always leaned minimalist.

gosen•39m ago

Glad for the team, sad for the product

jahala•38m ago

Conductor is awesome. Meta sucks donkey balls, and I refuse to use their products.

I'll prolly have claude reverse engineer conductor over the next month so the show can go on ...

mikigraf•31m ago

Been using superset for some time, but they dont have the cloud offering yet..

robertn702•30m ago

There’s no need to. There are so many alternatives with almost the same feature set like superset.sh and orca.dev.

Charlieholtz•36m ago

Hi! Co-founder here. Conductor actually kicked off with a HN post many lifetimes ago in July 2025 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44594584). I owe so much to this community. Thank you all so much!

The whole team is around to help answer any questions. You can reach out to me personally at charlie [at] melty.sh.

jahala•27m ago

I'm in the awkward position of wanting to congratulate you and scold you at the same time. Wish you'd been bought by Anthropic or something instead. Anyhow- congrats on getting scooped up.

breznev•18m ago

What value could they possibly provide Anthropic? This is by far the best-case scenario for the team

doublerabbit•18m ago

> The whole team is around to help answer any questions

Why did you sell out?

2001zhaozhao•16m ago

dayone1•16m ago

why sellout your company and your customers and community?

paultannenbaum•29m ago

Heavy conductor user here. Does the hacker news community have any suggestions for replacements?

priyadarshy•24m ago

macro.land

harryck9•24m ago

Paseo is great

2001zhaozhao•22m ago

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 multi-provider orchestrators have not been keeping up with Claude Desktop in particular adding features at lightning-speed, but T3 Code somehow manages.

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

isege•17m ago

I second this. T3 code especially for remote machine workflows is unmatched.

0xb0565e486•20m ago

Claude or ChatGPT

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cute_boi•20m ago

T3 code is much better than conductor.

I will avoid Meta and Google as much as possible.

leofree•18m ago

Might be a dumb question but can you explain in a couple words the benefit VS a well organized claude code CLI that knows to spin sub agents?

gepeake•17m ago

Glad I started migrating all my projects to Paseo yesterday!

stevenou•14m ago

Extremely bummed about this. Having cloud webhooks + workspace/session API + isolated VMs has been a massive productivity boost for me.

Does anyone have suggestions for products that can match Conductor Cloud, not just Conductor Local?

217•13m ago

I'd say tern or orca, some customization and a decent vps will get you 95%+ of the way there

TheGamerUncle•10m ago

superset.sh is quite a good option that will mostly get you there.

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