{"slug": "manus", "name": "Manus", "category": "ai", "category_name": "AI models and assistants", "description": "", "recommenders": 3, "commenters": 7, "warners": 1, "score": 2.742, "rising": 1.67, "first": "2025-12-29", "latest": "2026-08-26", "why": "It was the best product in its area from the beginning, eclipsing anything US produced prior to it", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 3, "compare": 0, "warn": 1}, "spark": [0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "It was the best product in its area from the beginning, eclipsing anything US produced prior to it", "icon": true, "domain": null, "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://manus.im", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Manus"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 788256608, "item_id": 49266038, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49266038", "by": "SpyCoder77", "date": "2026-08-11", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It is very good for computer use.", "excerpt": "I use it for when I am on my iPad and am not at my computer. It is very good for computer use. That along with Minimax agent.", "context": "uses it when away from computer", "use_case": "computer use from iPad", "switched_from": "", "story": "Manus will return to operating as an independent company"}, {"id": 788189504, "item_id": 49261844, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49261844", "by": "potato66", "date": "2026-08-11", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It's great for like researching deep on a topic.", "excerpt": "I use it alot. It's great for like researching deep on a topic. I also accidentally found that it's better at taking my directions and transferring that well to image generation especially with iteration. When I try my own iterations directly it never really lands", "context": "", "use_case": "deep research and image generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Manus will return to operating as an independent company"}, {"id": 742880864, "item_id": 46430054, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46430054", "by": "storus", "date": "2025-12-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It was the best product in its area from the beginning, eclipsing anything US produced prior to it", "excerpt": "I don't get the negative sentiment wrt Manus. It was the best product in its area from the beginning, eclipsing anything US produced prior to it; only later US companies started catching up. I have a bitter taste in my mouth from Meta getting it and likely destroying it later as I used it with great outcomes for some recent research I did at Stanford.", "context": "did research at Stanford", "use_case": "research", "switched_from": "", "story": "ManusAI Joins Meta"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 742838432, "item_id": 46427402, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46427402", "by": "mercurialsolo", "date": "2025-12-29", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Insanely overpriced versus over deep research products", "excerpt": "I had tried manus and never could find a use-case for them that worked for me 1. Insanely overpriced versus over deep research products 2. Deep research has increasingly become a feature in most other products 3. 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I fell down a bit of a rabbit hole and ended up with an automated football league that runs 3 matches per day and streams on Twitch/Youtube. It's been a lot of fun! Four of the eight clubs are managed by frontier AI models (Claude, GPT, Gemini, Manus). Between match day", "context": "", "use_case": "managing football clubs", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: A robot football league where frontier AI models manage the clubs"}, {"id": 788256608, "item_id": 49266038, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49266038", "by": "SpyCoder77", "date": "2026-08-11", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It is very good for computer use.", "excerpt": "I use it for when I am on my iPad and am not at my computer. It is very good for computer use. 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I also accidentally found that it's better at taking my directions and transferring that well to image generation especially with iteration. When I try my own iterations directly it never really lands", "context": "", "use_case": "deep research and image generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Manus will return to operating as an independent company"}, {"id": 769508576, "item_id": 48094286, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48094286", "by": "gajo357", "date": "2026-05-11", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Manus was great, used it for months for exploring ideas, making reports and such. I dropped it when I heard that Meta was buying it.", "excerpt": "Manus was great, used it for months for exploring ideas, making reports and such. I dropped it when I heard that Meta was buying it. Then I used Gemini and it was great as well, but very limited when it comes to coding (in Antigravity) because instead of giving me credits for coding in the subscription they give you GB on Google Drive. So you burn through the coding very quickly. Github Copilot is the worst. It usual", "context": "", "use_case": "exploring ideas, reports", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Which LLM are you using to evaluate your ideas?"}, {"id": 742880864, "item_id": 46430054, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46430054", "by": "storus", "date": "2025-12-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It was the best product in its area from the beginning, eclipsing anything US produced prior to it", "excerpt": "I don't get the negative sentiment wrt Manus. It was the best product in its area from the beginning, eclipsing anything US produced prior to it; only later US companies started catching up. I have a bitter taste in my mouth from Meta getting it and likely destroying it later as I used it with great outcomes for some recent research I did at Stanford.", "context": "did research at Stanford", "use_case": "research", "switched_from": "", "story": "ManusAI Joins Meta"}, {"id": 742838432, "item_id": 46427402, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46427402", "by": "mercurialsolo", "date": "2025-12-29", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Insanely overpriced versus over deep research products", "excerpt": "I had tried manus and never could find a use-case for them that worked for me 1. Insanely overpriced versus over deep research products 2. Deep research has increasingly become a feature in most other products 3. They shot themselves in the foot by sharing very limited usage credits, in the initial wave of DR products pretty much everything was free - ChatGPT, Claude, Pplx, Deepseek. they rolled this back later and a", "context": "", "use_case": "deep research", "switched_from": "", "story": "ManusAI Joins Meta"}]}