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I'm hoping someone can explain why this is interesting.

I get that Herdr wants investors to give them money to own developers' coding sessions, but the value proposition ("Walk away and they keep working. Come back from any machine and they're where you left them.") seems like a miss since it's so easy to do that without them.

I'm surely missing something.

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Well, they're mainly introducing Herdr Cloud which I take to be similar to Tailscale (and other comments seem to support this too). `herdr login` on any machine, anywhere and suddenly that box joins your Herdr network of boxes you can connect to and deploy agents to. This is totally doable with Tailscale today, but maybe there's other features that can only be realised with some kind of cooperation at or above the network level?

How many other products can you name that:

1) are terminal based (not gui apps that you need to install)

2) Can be run by mosh/ssh

3) Track agent sessions automatically

4) Have built-in git worktree management

5) Show agents connections over different machines (the new feature mentioned in the blog post)?

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