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Conductor is joining Meta

kenrose

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  • Charlieholtz
    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.
  • brainless
    I really fail to understand what is going on here.There is literally no moat in most software expect the users a product has acquired. The number of slightly different solution to an existing product is wild. And this is getting crazier. I build for the fun of it now. Completely lost any sight of $ goals.I am building agents, have own gui framework, own server orchestration, and now looking at deploying multi-app servers using unikernels. I build for my niche audience and make them happy - I am going via my existing clients who are in the property management domain. Non technical folks who have to handle everything from inspection to finance. My ideal type of folks.I am sure by the time I build my end to end agent/orchestration/deployment/management system, I will have some customers and many more clones. Slightly different clones. This is the future. Why would anyone acquire anything?They need my prompts, not my tech.
  • g_host56
    just when I was starting to really like conductor. It's a really good app / idea for working with agents. The strongest workflow I've used. Ig I'll move to herd now.nice to get paid by meta, but cmmon read the room.
  • iamunr
    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.
  • markerz
    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
    This morning my team was a bit grumpy about this. This afternoon we've already forked + reverse engineered the whole project, including Passport (our favorite feature)! LLMs truly are amazing, lol.
  • bqsile
    I switched to T3 codes a few weeks ago after being a power user of Conductor and I understand why the product felt a bit stale now.
  • stevenou
    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?
  • lonexa
    I created https://superintelligencehive.com/ because I wanted my own orchestrator - it is local and has most of the features you could want. And forever free.
  • paultannenbaum
    Heavy conductor user here. Does the hacker news community have any suggestions for replacements?
  • phildenhoff
    Congratulations to the team - but it's a bitter ending. I wish, in these cases, the company could open source a version of their desktop software. But I'm sure the tech is part of what Meta is acquiring.I started using Conductor in January this year and it was a great tool - Charlie and the team knocked it out of the park. I only migrated to Orca when I needed better multi-machine control, and remote control, but these tools are a dime-a-dozen now. I'm not sure that if I was hunting for a new tool today that I'd pick up Orca. Maybe Herdr? or Stencil's Tern?All that to say - they built a great product with great UX. Looking forward to seeing what they build next at Meta!
  • jahala
    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 ...
  • motatoes
    For anyone looking for a slack-native conductor check out opencomputer.devdisclosure: I am one of the founders
  • Raed667
    I'm not a Conductor user, but the shutdown timeline seems rather rushed no?
  • gosen
    Glad for the team, sad for the product
  • anon
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  • forthwall
    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!
  • mgw
    Congrats to the team! It's great to see acquisitions in this space.I personally never thought Conductor was that great, so I built my own with https://podium.do.What I was missing was a built-in task system so more complex tasks can be split up by the agents. And running agents on my own machines of course.
  • leofree
    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?
  • BowBun
    Gah this sucks! Conductor is my main development tool. Now I'm forced to look for alternatives. Why can't they open source it?
  • Strongbad536
    I used conductor when it was first released for quite some time. Great product but i ultimately wanted to use my own networked devices to do work, so i moved to herdr and then ultimately to t3 code now.Very happy to see the team get a happy ending/landing!
  • ayayronf
    Congrats to the conductor team! The timeline to migrate off Conductor Cloud feels very aggressive. What tooling are other folks moving to?
  • maherbeg
    Congrats to the team! This is a great acquire for meta to super speed their coding agent rival. It's very exciting to now have another tier 1 major player in the space.
  • mushufasa
    I first thought it was about this Conductor: https://github.com/netflix/conductor
  • calmworm
    Dang… I didn’t even get a chance to try it.
  • roskoes
    "We launched Conductor a lifetime ago, in the distant past of July 2025. " Dear god the sheer smugness. This bubble can't burst soon enough.
  • 217
    I will miss it dearly.
  • babelfish
    Congrats to the team, but bummed out that I'm losing my favorite IDE!
  • SethSchilbe
    Tried Conductor in the past but had migrated all of our teams remote development work to http://boxes.dev as it was much more intuitive and easier to manage parallel workstreams.Would highly recommend it for anyone looking for an alternative with Conductor shutting down.
  • vadepaysa
    well, conductor was so great that after using it for a few weeks, I completely stopped fearing a lock-in. I just use the official cli + desktop apps now. tmux + a bit of custom scripting works wonders.
  • gdulli
    Everything you add to your tech stack is a liability. Period. I've always leaned minimalist.
  • anon
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  • gepeake
    Glad I started migrating all my projects to Paseo yesterday!
  • imagetic
    The end.
  • stevage
    > If you liked Conductor, you’re gonna love what’s coming....> Friday, Nov 20> Conductor Cloud shuts down> We begin deleting Conductor Cloud user data. Please export your data before this date.Oh yeah, gonna love that!
  • inshard
    Doesn’t Claude desktop do all of this and more. Like, is this IP layer super commoditized?
  • cute_boi
    T3 code is much better than conductor.I will avoid Meta and Google as much as possible.
  • anon
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  • oxfordmale
    Condoleances
  • rsamtravis
    FUCK
  • qmr
    "Our incredible journey"
  • szymeo
    [dead]
  • jader201
  • SethSchilbe
    [dupe]
  • cantalopes
    Why does their page sound like donald trump
  • ChrisArchitect
  • dayone1
    why sellout your company and your customers and community?
  • doublerabbit
    > The whole team is around to help answer any questionsWhy did you sell out?
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  • FriendlyMike
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  • paaloeye
    I'm so glad I haven't even heard of them