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New comment by rchodava in "Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop"

rchodava — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:53:08 +0000

Thanks for the honest feedback. I'm still playing around with the pricing and trying to get it right.

New comment by rchodava in "Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop"

rchodava — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:10:03 +0000

This isn't exactly what you're looking for but for just the coding part, I am working on https://www.buildautomaton.com to allow multiple people to participate on a shared coding session. It's also bring your own agent subscription, uses ACP to talk to any agent (Cursor, Claude, Codex, etc), and is end-to-end encrypted for most of your IP.

New comment by rchodava in "Show HN: More feedback for Show HN stories"

rchodava — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 19:36:55 +0000

The questionaires were meant to be a mechanism to allow creators to get additional feedback. They can be posted by the original HN story author and we verify that they are the original author by asking that they post a link to the questionaire as a comment on the HN story. These were the ones posted by those posters - we have work to do here to allow editing and also flagging.

New comment by rchodava in "Show HN: More feedback for Show HN stories"

rchodava — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 17:35:25 +0000

Thanks,

I can understand the feeling about the depth of feedback here. And I agree when I have felt compelled enough to give feedback on an idea, usually it had a bit more depth than a reaction allows. As a creator, I also agree getting feedback as prose would be better. But this comes from having been on the other side and having posted a few things we've worked on to Show HN and to Product Hunt, and a few other sites and having gotten no feedback. I do understand that no reaction is a reaction in itself but you are left in a place of having no idea why it isn't working. So this is genuinely an experiment to see if making it easier to react will lead to at least some feedback, light in depth as it might be.

And we'll continue to experiment to see if we can improve the depth while still making it easy. A quick-hit feedback text box is a good idea. We'll play around with that.

The cookie usage notices is a requirement for companies based in the EU - doing analytics as we are does require tracking at some level, we can probably do better.

We just reset the HN import from the API today for launch - it should grow longer over time. We'll look at going backwards though that isn't supported by the official API afaik. You're right we do need to improve how we sort them so it matches HN more closely - right now it sorts by day, and the top stories in that day.

New comment by rchodava in "Show HN: More feedback for Show HN stories"

rchodava — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 17:09:07 +0000

Thanks for the feedback vineet. Digging through past comments is a good idea and the quick reactions were in a way derived by doing that - we looked at Show HN comments and tried to distill them down to just a few. As you can imagine, its not easy to capture everything. We are looking at making the selection a bit more expansive but still quick to add. A browser extension is an interesting idea - this is something that was a bit of a struggle to figure out how to make it easier to see feedback from HN. We played around with importing comments from HN and had our own comments on the site along with HN comments, but merging the two was a bit confusing since you couldn't comment on HN from within DevKitchen. We're still trying to improve how this works.