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arionmilesyesterday at 4:41 PM5 repliesview on HN

Who are their highly funded closed-source competitors they claim Warp cannot beat on price?

Warp is the only closed source terminal product I know of. Most other popular terminal emulators are open source already.

I feel like their funding is drying up and this is their last ditch effort to have the "community" build their product for them.

They claim agents will run the show, with inputs from community in the form of ideas/specs/direction. I wonder how long that will be sustainable for given the subsidized model prices are collapsing as we speak.

Is this an attempt to pivot to something else while the "community" keeps their first product alive? Maybe I'm being too cynical here, but I don't see this as an act of good faith, especially given their roots in VC funding.


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Bayarttoday at 12:53 PM

> Who are their highly funded closed-source competitors they claim Warp cannot beat on price?

Agentic AI, broadly speaking. Including CLI agents and IDEs.

taupiyesterday at 5:12 PM

They see their competitors as Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor, not ghostty or something.

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SOLAR_FIELDStoday at 8:14 AM

I'm not too familiar with Warp so can someone help clarify for me:

Is Warp a terminal? Or an agent harness? Or both?

Warp as a terminal to me seems less interesting than having a well built agent harness like OpenCode that can effectively use many different models. If it's both, is there any advantage to having them be the same thing? Like, is there any way your harness can be smarter if it is also tightly integrated in your terminal? Or is it just something that Warp happens to do both of?

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aarondftoday at 3:48 AM

soloterm.com is closed source

s_suiindiktoday at 8:16 AM

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