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Mana LLM OS

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21 pointsbehzadhaghgoo12 comments

Great, finally something ambitious enough.

However, may I make a speculate here a little..

The brand and presentation seem to try to appeal to (young) tech savvy people; but those are the ones who are hardest to win due to so many different needs they have for their OS and software running on it. Similarly why people don’t move from Windows to Linux.

Thus, I’d be afraid this might very easily end up in the ”toy” category like the many alternative cloud or browser OSes.

So, instead, why not take a chapter from Chromebook’s.. book, and target the users with simplest needs: the non-technical. Those, who just ”need a browser in a laptop”.

New selling points: - No need to update it, it takes care of its self - No need to install suspicious apps, it can make the things you need - No menus full of apps, settings and actions you will never use; only what you actually want - You can’t break it, it can protect itself from accidents - Never again odd error messages, it can always explain them to you ELI5 and help to fix them

And lastly: - Nothing to ”learn” - always just ask and it’ll do it for you

Nice—who have you found that sits at the intersection of "wants to build custom personal apps" and "doesn't want to use a terminal UI"? Or, is there something people who already use Claude Code would get from this?

I think the main thing is UI and being on the cloud. I used to have all my todos and notes on claude code. But it's much nicer to have a UI that can directly interact with them (e.g. mark something as done or click to view more details). With CC you'd need to spin up a server and frontend and host them etc. Here we abstract those steps away without really reducing capability. You can create a frontend and it can talk to the file system or external APIs very easily.

+1. The main benefit is that the chat interface is enough, but not the most efficient/intuitive all the time. Love your idea that has both the chat interface and UI very well integrated with each other!

One way to think about is like Notion. Imagine if every notion page was a webapp instead of a markdown and then you had an LLM that had access to it all. So anyone who uses productivity software can potentially use it to make their very personal workspace.

If you combine an LLM that can run code, a cloud file system, and UI generation, you can create a new kind of os that evolves dynamically with the user.

Very cool product! Can it store the data for apps as well?

yeah everything persists. The apps and LLM both talk to the same source of data. So you can either talk to change things or have apps do it.

Very nice, any plans for storing file system locally?

If you give it an API to a local file system it can already connect. For the main file system we can explore it! Curious what your use case is.

Currently our file system is a relational db which makes it more web-native for webapps. but fully local can be doable too.

this is really cool! so basically it makes something like claude code but with ui possible for anyone?

Yup, basically like Claude code operating on a folder but the folder is on the cloud and it can generate interactive UIs for interacting with the folder.

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