alt Hacker NewsJust my two cents: less is more and the first impression matters a lot. I'm saying this because we see a new agent sandbox tool on the front-page almost every day. Most of them have an AI-made landing page design, lots of animations, lots of words. This has become a bad sign for me. I can tell that you put time into it, made a video, and everything, but I guess I'm suffering from some kind of fatigue of having to go through all these tools. So, the less I have to process to get to the meat of exactly what I'm looking at, what sets this apart from others, why and when I would need to use it, then the more likely I am to actually engage with the product.
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Sadly this is what sells. Standing out in this regard checkout https://shellbox.dev maybe swinging too far though?
As someone who is building an AI tool in this category, can you give examples? :)
I've tried to focus more on end-user use-cases in my own product positioning, even though security is absolutely at the top of my list. This was hard to watch because it felt it demonstrated a security feature that is really secondary to the purpose of an agent.
What would be a spin in this AI category that would excite or surprise you?
Anthropic is probably looking at this trend and building something. When released will kill couple of startups.
Agreed. All of these tools promise the world and are so incredibly vague. Actually show me what I can do with it, like hands on.
That's fair. What makes this unique is the versioned, composable filesystem. It's built on top of lakeFS (https://github.com/treeverse/lakeFS) so it scales really well, unlike other solutions that try and do this with Git directly.