{"slug": "superset", "name": "Superset", "category": "ai-coding", "category_name": "AI coding tools", "description": "", "recommenders": 4, "commenters": 8, "warners": 2, "score": 2.281, "rising": -1.31, "first": "2026-02-26", "latest": "2026-08-10", "why": "Each time I start to implement a new ticket, superset will pull the ticket from linear, create a worktree/workspace, reserve ports, start the servers, start a browser and start Claude", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 5, "neutral": 2, "compare": 0, "warn": 2}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 3, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "Each time I start to implement a new ticket, superset will pull the ticket from linear, create a worktree/workspace, reserve ports, start the servers, start a browser and start Claude", "icon": true, "domain": "superset.sh", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://superset.sh", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Superset", "superset"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 771956144, "item_id": 48247259, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48247259", "by": "BrandiATMuhkuh", "date": "2026-05-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I've been using Superset as my daily driver for about 2 months and I'm loving it.", "excerpt": "I've been using Superset as my daily driver for about 2 months and I'm loving it. i have created a simple setup script that reserves a couple of ports per workspace/worktree. with that, each ticket/workspace can starts it's own webserver. Allowing me to work on multiple things in parallel. that also allows me to use Claude+Chrome MCP to e2e test each implementation in parallel. Besides my own repo I also have a coupl", "context": "Runs ~5 agents in parallel", "use_case": "parallel agent workspaces", "switched_from": "", "story": "Launch HN: Superset (YC P26) \u2013 IDE for the agents era"}, {"id": 771836176, "item_id": 48239761, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48239761", "by": "collin128", "date": "2026-05-22", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Just switched from Conductor to Superset and I'm a big fan.", "excerpt": "Just switched from Conductor to Superset and I'm a big fan. I really didn't like the extra stuff conductor added to the UX (the text rendering always drove me nuts). So far so good with Superset - even as a non-engineer builder.", "context": "Non-engineer builder", "use_case": "agent IDE", "switched_from": "Conductor", "story": "Launch HN: Superset (YC P26) \u2013 IDE for the agents era"}, {"id": 771796048, "item_id": 48237253, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48237253", "by": "micro23xd", "date": "2026-05-22", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I've been using this for the past few months, and I love it!", "excerpt": "I've been using this for the past few months, and I love it! It's built exactly around my workflow with many worktrees in various repos open at the same time, sometimes with different agents working side-by-side. Before Superset I just used terminal tabs but simply couldn't manage more than like 20 terminal tabs without losing track, so i coudn't scale further. Now i'm running probably 40-50 agent sessions over sever", "context": "", "use_case": "managing many agent sessions and worktrees", "switched_from": "", "story": "Launch HN: Superset (YC P26) \u2013 IDE for the agents era"}, {"id": 767064480, "item_id": 47941530, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47941530", "by": "BrandiATMuhkuh", "date": "2026-04-28", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Each time I start to implement a new ticket, superset will pull the ticket from linear, create a worktree/workspace, reserve ports, start the servers, start a browser and start Claude", "excerpt": "Recently I've started to use https://superset.sh as alternative to Warp. After the volks @mastra mentioned it. Very cool open source project. I'm actually pretty proud of the final setup I've created with it. Each time I start to implement a new ticket, superset will pull the ticket from linear, create a worktree/workspace, reserve ports, start the servers, start a browser and start Claude with the ticket as instruct", "context": "", "use_case": "parallel agent worktree workflow", "switched_from": "Warp", "story": "Warp is now open-source"}, {"id": 754742688, "item_id": 47171418, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47171418", "by": "cschneid", "date": "2026-02-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it has worked really well to automate creating & deleting worktrees, with their own terminals", "excerpt": "I have been using Superset (https://superset.sh/) and it has worked really well to automate creating & deleting worktrees, with their own terminals, and keeping everything organized. Great for running work in parallel. It's really just a terminal emulator w/ a bunch of extra helpers to make coding agents work well. Which I really like since it doesn't try to wrap claude or codex in it's own ui or anything tricky.", "context": "", "use_case": "parallel coding agent worktrees", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Beehive \u2013 Multi-Workspace Agent Orchestrator"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 787407251, "item_id": 49212953, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49212953", "by": "antiobli", "date": "2026-08-07", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Tried Superset and Intent, but they seemed like way overkill / unintuitive to use agents like I prefer.", "excerpt": "I like it because it's a terminal first workspace and has bindings to use it programatically. Tried Superset and Intent, but they seemed like way overkill / unintuitive to use agents like I prefer. I use WezTerm as a terminal, so being able to have herdr exist in that application (not having another app to keep track of) as a tab really helps me stay in flow. Over the last few weeks, Herdr has given me the vibe of \"w", "context": "", "use_case": "agent workspaces", "switched_from": "", "story": "Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open"}, {"id": 771807840, "item_id": 48237990, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48237990", "by": "desireco42", "date": "2026-05-22", "stance": "warn", "quote": "it would just take too many resources and especially with glitches, it wasn't worth it continuing.", "excerpt": "I used Superset for quite a while until a month ago. There were some annoying issues, with freezing and terminal not being rendered how it should be. And they did repeated fixes that didn't really solve it. Since I had work to do I moved on. I installed Zellij on my server where most of work is happening and local machine and this works well for me. There are other issues I have now, but overall flow is fairly natura", "context": "", "use_case": "agent workflow IDE", "switched_from": "", "story": "Launch HN: Superset (YC P26) \u2013 IDE for the agents era"}]}], "who": [{"by": "BrandiATMuhkuh", "context": "Runs ~5 agents in parallel", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48247259", "date": "2026-05-23"}, {"by": "collin128", "context": "Non-engineer builder", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48239761", "date": "2026-05-22"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["running agents per git worktree", "agent workspaces", "agent terminal workspace", "parallel agent workspaces", "agent ide", "agent workflow ide"], "compared": [{"slug": "zellij", "name": "Zellij", "co": 1, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 1}, {"slug": "orca", "name": "Orca", "co": 1, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 1}, {"slug": "warp", "name": "Warp", "co": 1, "switched_from": 1, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "conductor", "name": "Conductor", "co": 1, "switched_from": 1, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "herdr", "name": "herdr", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [{"id": 800000608, "item_id": 50000038, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000038", "by": "hoakiet98", "date": "2026-10-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "We're building a self-improving IDE for running coding agents in parallel.", "excerpt": "Superset (YC P26) | Founding Engineer, Founding Design Engineer | San Francisco | ONSITE | Full-time | $175K-$225K + 1.0-1.5% equity | https://superset.sh/careers We're building a self-improving IDE for running coding agents in parallel. Tens of thousands of engineers use it as their main IDE, at companies like Netflix, DoorDash and Wix. It's source-available: https://github.com/superset-sh/superset We're 4 people, i", "context": "", "use_case": "running coding agents in parallel", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)"}, {"id": 771795168, "item_id": 48237198, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48237198", "by": "avipeltz", "date": "2026-05-22", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "thanks! give it a try :)", "excerpt": "thanks! give it a try :) https://github.com/superset-sh/superset", "context": "", "use_case": "IDE for coding agents", "switched_from": "", "story": "Launch HN: Superset (YC P26) \u2013 IDE for the agents era"}], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48236770", "title": "Launch HN: Superset (YC P26) \u2013 IDE for the agents era", "mentions": 5}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49922569", "title": "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49239751", "title": "Docker Sandboxes \u2013 Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201003", "title": "Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098965", "title": "Mitchellh starts a new company: Superlogical", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47936264", "title": "Warp is now open-source", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-05": {"recommend": 3, "warn": 1}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-08": {"warn": 1, "neutral": 1}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 787848721, "item_id": 49240545, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49240545", "by": "rusch", "date": "2026-08-10", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I run it with superset", "excerpt": "The login is annoying but, lacking an open source alternative, this has been my daily driver for a while now because it works great out of the box with two key features: outbound firewall and secret injection with placeholders. I run it with superset and then each git worktree is mounted in a sandbox that is configured for each repo i work in. Closest open source I have seen is https://earendil-works.github.io/gondol", "context": "", "use_case": "running agents per git worktree", "switched_from": "", "story": "Docker Sandboxes \u2013 Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents"}, {"id": 787407251, "item_id": 49212953, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49212953", "by": "antiobli", "date": "2026-08-07", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Tried Superset and Intent, but they seemed like way overkill / unintuitive to use agents like I prefer.", "excerpt": "I like it because it's a terminal first workspace and has bindings to use it programatically. Tried Superset and Intent, but they seemed like way overkill / unintuitive to use agents like I prefer. I use WezTerm as a terminal, so being able to have herdr exist in that application (not having another app to keep track of) as a tab really helps me stay in flow. Over the last few weeks, Herdr has given me the vibe of \"w", "context": "", "use_case": "agent workspaces", "switched_from": "", "story": "Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open"}, {"id": 785669281, "item_id": 49104330, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49104330", "by": "behole", "date": "2026-07-29", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I was using superset before that-they are nearly identical.", "excerpt": "Orca is my daily driver right now. It could be better but it\u2019s far from bad. I was using superset before that-they are nearly identical.", "context": "", "use_case": "agent terminal workspace", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mitchellh starts a new company: Superlogical"}, {"id": 771956144, "item_id": 48247259, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48247259", "by": "BrandiATMuhkuh", "date": "2026-05-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I've been using Superset as my daily driver for about 2 months and I'm loving it.", "excerpt": "I've been using Superset as my daily driver for about 2 months and I'm loving it. i have created a simple setup script that reserves a couple of ports per workspace/worktree. with that, each ticket/workspace can starts it's own webserver. Allowing me to work on multiple things in parallel. that also allows me to use Claude+Chrome MCP to e2e test each implementation in parallel. Besides my own repo I also have a coupl", "context": "Runs ~5 agents in parallel", "use_case": "parallel agent workspaces", "switched_from": "", "story": "Launch HN: Superset (YC P26) \u2013 IDE for the agents era"}, {"id": 771836176, "item_id": 48239761, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48239761", "by": "collin128", "date": "2026-05-22", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Just switched from Conductor to Superset and I'm a big fan.", "excerpt": "Just switched from Conductor to Superset and I'm a big fan. I really didn't like the extra stuff conductor added to the UX (the text rendering always drove me nuts). So far so good with Superset - even as a non-engineer builder.", "context": "Non-engineer builder", "use_case": "agent IDE", "switched_from": "Conductor", "story": "Launch HN: Superset (YC P26) \u2013 IDE for the agents era"}, {"id": 771807840, "item_id": 48237990, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48237990", "by": "desireco42", "date": "2026-05-22", "stance": "warn", "quote": "it would just take too many resources and especially with glitches, it wasn't worth it continuing.", "excerpt": "I used Superset for quite a while until a month ago. There were some annoying issues, with freezing and terminal not being rendered how it should be. And they did repeated fixes that didn't really solve it. Since I had work to do I moved on. I installed Zellij on my server where most of work is happening and local machine and this works well for me. There are other issues I have now, but overall flow is fairly natura", "context": "", "use_case": "agent workflow IDE", "switched_from": "", "story": "Launch HN: Superset (YC P26) \u2013 IDE for the agents era"}, {"id": 771796048, "item_id": 48237253, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48237253", "by": "micro23xd", "date": "2026-05-22", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I've been using this for the past few months, and I love it!", "excerpt": "I've been using this for the past few months, and I love it! It's built exactly around my workflow with many worktrees in various repos open at the same time, sometimes with different agents working side-by-side. Before Superset I just used terminal tabs but simply couldn't manage more than like 20 terminal tabs without losing track, so i coudn't scale further. Now i'm running probably 40-50 agent sessions over sever", "context": "", "use_case": "managing many agent sessions and worktrees", "switched_from": "", "story": "Launch HN: Superset (YC P26) \u2013 IDE for the agents era"}, {"id": 767064480, "item_id": 47941530, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47941530", "by": "BrandiATMuhkuh", "date": "2026-04-28", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Each time I start to implement a new ticket, superset will pull the ticket from linear, create a worktree/workspace, reserve ports, start the servers, start a browser and start Claude", "excerpt": "Recently I've started to use https://superset.sh as alternative to Warp. After the volks @mastra mentioned it. Very cool open source project. I'm actually pretty proud of the final setup I've created with it. Each time I start to implement a new ticket, superset will pull the ticket from linear, create a worktree/workspace, reserve ports, start the servers, start a browser and start Claude with the ticket as instruct", "context": "", "use_case": "parallel agent worktree workflow", "switched_from": "Warp", "story": "Warp is now open-source"}, {"id": 754742688, "item_id": 47171418, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47171418", "by": "cschneid", "date": "2026-02-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it has worked really well to automate creating & deleting worktrees, with their own terminals", "excerpt": "I have been using Superset (https://superset.sh/) and it has worked really well to automate creating & deleting worktrees, with their own terminals, and keeping everything organized. Great for running work in parallel. It's really just a terminal emulator w/ a bunch of extra helpers to make coding agents work well. Which I really like since it doesn't try to wrap claude or codex in it's own ui or anything tricky.", "context": "", "use_case": "parallel coding agent worktrees", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Beehive \u2013 Multi-Workspace Agent Orchestrator"}]}