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Charlieholtz | on: Conductor is joining Meta
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.

kylecazar | parent | next
"... many lifetimes ago in 2025"

This made me laugh. The world is different now. Congrats!

jahala | parent | next
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 | root | parent | next
What value could they possibly provide Anthropic? This is by far the best-case scenario for the team
jahala | root | parent
A great, stable product - that doesn't try to be absolutely everything - but does a few things really well, and looks great while doing it?
dbbk | root | parent | next
Conductor is really no different from Claude Code Desktop now, aside from multiple harness and models
ipaddr | root | parent
That's not Anthropic.
swaptr | root | parent
To my understanding Muse has finally caught up to Anthropic, OAI and others atleast on coding and other benchmarks. This move makes the most sense to now quickly try to capture the market.
temp123477 | parent | next
You lads... I remember when we had to paste the code from the chat window into VSCode.
steve_adams_86 | root | parent
Remember when 200k was a HUGE context window, but you still had to be precious about how many files you'd paste into it?
sksum | parent | next
Best shipping speed I've experienced for a product like this. Great run!

Consider Open Sourcing the core/app

apsurd | root | parent
im so curious what specifically makes this possible. I have no experience with conductor but your comment reminds me of how impressed I was with the development speed of parse.com. I'm likely dating myself; it was the first serverless/firebase backend concept that supported mobile app development. I wasn't even a user I just noted how prolific the feature rollouts were. So polished too. They got acqui-hired by Meta and I'm sure the founders did well.

Anyway, for anyone reading, just a not developer-led products. How do they do it?!

999900000999 | parent | next
Are you going to retire now and start a band ?

Congratulations, getting an exit in a bit over a year is very very good

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gadders | parent | next
Not a user but congrats and I hope you make fat stacks.
yard2010 | parent | next
I loved the autographs at the bottom. It gives a nice feeling. Way to go!
ckx | parent | next
Congrats! This is only the beginning of your journey!
adam-eclse | parent | next
Just wanted to congratulate you guys. Like many of us here, I had a mixed reaction of happy for your team, but also sad for Conductor. I tried a bunch of different approaches for coding agents, once I started using Conductor I was like "oh I guess I'm done looking for a harness" - a beautiful clean UI, great UX and just an overall smooth experience with all the features you could need.

Hopefully Meta does something good with your team's talent and technology, but regardless, it was a huge productivity boost for me and I really appreciate that. Good luck to you and your team at Meta!

hridyaagrawal | parent | next
congrats to the team!
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