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Posted by avipeltz 6 hours ago

Launch HN: Superset (YC P26) – IDE for the agents era(github.com)
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!

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desireco42 4 hours ago|
I used Superset for quite a while until a month ago. There were some annoying issues, with freezing and terminal not being rendered how it should be. And they did repeated fixes that didn't really solve it. Since I had work to do I moved on.

I installed Zellij on my server where most of work is happening and local machine and this works well for me. There are other issues I have now, but overall flow is fairly natural to what I am doing.

I liked that they did integrate a lot of agent workflow in Superset but my experience was that it would just take too many resources and especially with glitches, it wasn't worth it continuing. I had a period where i enjoyed working in it. It is vibe coded electron app, 2GB! is too much for this kind of app.

I just updated to their new version... it supposedly imported my projects but I can't find anything... so... I guess this is it.

hoakiet98 4 hours ago|
sorry to hear about the issue. we really messed up on the performance and balancing that with more features. looking into the imported projects did no projects show up on the sidebar for you?

will continue working bugs and hope you'll give it a try later in the future when the product's more stable :)

jimmydoe 5 hours ago||
zed , orca , /.+mux.*/ , ...

they all look incredibly / increasingly the same?

avipeltz 5 hours 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
tdi 5 hours ago||
No linear integration in free version and taxing it 20$/m is a bit steep.
saddlepaddle 5 hours 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.
tdi 1 hour ago||
Anyways great work and piece of nice software
drcongo 5 hours ago||
The FAQ says "Superset has a free tier. The source code is available on GitHub under Elastic License 2.0 (ELv2), so you can inspect and self-host it subject to the license terms." - what is self hosting in this context, isn't it a desktop app? Is this why it wants me to sign into something? What exactly am I signing in to?
saddlepaddle 4 hours ago|
So we also ship a cloud service along with Superset, which enables our Linear integration, Slack integration, and our multiplayer capabilities / remote workspaces.

When you sign in, you're signing into our cloud service!

drcongo 4 hours ago||
Got you, thanks. So if I don't need those things I can skip the sign-in?
saddlepaddle 4 hours ago||
Ah unfortunately not through the hosted product, but if you fork and build it you should be able to skip the sign-in
yannoninator 6 hours ago||
How does this compare to Cursor?

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

saddlepaddle 5 hours ago|
Actually Cursor is starting to converge with us as we speak! You can look at their new agents mode (which is now their default for new users) as an example.

For what happens, in our heads the end goal is building a software factory where dozens to hundreds of agents are always running - something that nobody has nailed the experience for yet. Until that's a solved problem I hope we have room to grow and build!

othmarodev 52 minutes ago||
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aplomb1026 3 hours ago||
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bobchadwick 6 hours ago||
I thought this was somehow related to Apache Superset.

https://superset.apache.org/

saddlepaddle 5 hours ago||
Ah actually we're unaffiliated!
cap11235 5 hours ago||
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xnx 5 hours ago||
Confusing name. Superset is already an established analytics tool.
hoakiet98 4 hours ago|
yes, bad choice on my part. the origin was i was planning for it to be a superset of all your dev tools, not thinking about apache superset at all since it was a different domain
sanjay_ni 5 hours ago|
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