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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
For anyone looking for a slack-native conductor check out opencomputer.dev
disclosure: I am one of the founders
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!
Heavy conductor user here. Does the hacker news community have any suggestions for replacements?
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 ...
I'm not a Conductor user, but the shutdown timeline seems rather rushed no?
Glad for the team, sad for the product
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!
"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.
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.
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?
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!
Gah this sucks! Conductor is my main development tool. Now I'm forced to look for alternatives. Why can't they open source it?
Congrats to the conductor team! The timeline to migrate off Conductor Cloud feels very aggressive. What tooling are other folks moving to?
Dang… I didn’t even get a chance to try it.
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.
I first thought it was about this Conductor: https://github.com/netflix/conductor
Congrats to the team, but bummed out that I'm losing my favorite IDE!
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.
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.
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.
Why does their page sound like donald trump
Everything you add to your tech stack is a liability. Period. I've always leaned minimalist.
Glad I started migrating all my projects to Paseo yesterday!
I'm so glad I haven't even heard of them
The end.
I will miss it dearly.
> If you liked Conductor, you’re gonna love what’s coming.
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> 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!
Doesn’t Claude desktop do all of this and more. Like, is this IP layer super commoditized?
"Our incredible journey"
T3 code is much better than conductor.
I will avoid Meta and Google as much as possible.
Condoleances
FUCK
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Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50369840
why sellout your company and your customers and community?
> The whole team is around to help answer any questions
Why did you sell out?
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.