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CookieCrispyesterday at 10:58 PM5 repliesview on HN

I highly recommend to anyone that uses them a lot - try to clone your own. I’ve got mine fully formed into how I want it, with features I haven’t seen anywhere else yet and with integration into everything I work with. We’ve lived in a world where every app had to fit enough people well enough - but now we live in a world where an app can be molded to be absolutely perfect for just you!


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Gigachadtoday at 7:32 AM

Most people don’t want to play product manager and just want to pay someone to make the decisions for them.

We used to have a time where every small business had its own custom accounting software, and discovered that these businesses aren’t actually special snowflakes and are better off just using the generic software and conforming to whatever it does

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cdrinitoday at 5:20 AM

Out of curiosity, what are your favourite features that are unique to your implementation?

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theplumberyesterday at 11:17 PM

This is the way. Guess what am I working right now? My own “Work” app that will be better than anything else available today!

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jascha_engyesterday at 11:31 PM

How did you build your own coding agent? What language/framework did you use?

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nujabeyesterday at 11:35 PM

It would have been much easier to clone six months ago but today Codex/Claude desktop apps are so feature packed it seems it wouldn’t be worth it.

For example, the mobile/remote control feature I find very useful but not sure it would be worth cloning. If you aren’t replicating every feature you aren’t exactly “cloning” it, you’ll just end up with a crappier version with a fraction of the features of the real thing.