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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.

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"... many lifetimes ago in 2025"

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

Are you going to retire now and start a band ?

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

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!

Best shipping speed I've experienced for a product like this. Great run!

Consider Open Sourcing the core/app

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?!

Not a user but congrats and I hope you make fat stacks.

I loved the autographs at the bottom. It gives a nice feeling. Way to go!

Congrats! This is only the beginning of your journey!

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.

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

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?

That's not Anthropic.

Conductor is really no different from Claude Code Desktop now, aside from multiple harness and models

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.

You lads... I remember when we had to paste the code from the chat window into VSCode.

Remember when 200k was a HUGE context window, but you still had to be precious about how many files you'd paste into it?

I remember when most of my work came down to how to deal with the 512 token window of BERT.

Remember using the models pre-thinking? I had to build thinking into ChatGPT requests manually.

(I wonder if they stole that idea from my logs…)

Congrats Charlie!

congrats to the team!

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