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ben_talenton Open source companies in the post-agent world

Wrote this blogpost in early Jan. Before the OpenClaw madness.

I think it's never been more relevant to rethink how companies and especially open-source companies can leverage this new shift: words are now executable.

Anyways, would love to get some feedback.

ben_talenton Show HN: OpenWork – An open-source alternative to Claude Cowork

Completely understand. It's up to us to keep shippinh and making this actually good during that time!

ben_talenton Show HN: OpenWork – An open-source alternative to Claude Cowork

Yeah ! I feel like until we figure out the correct UX for non-technical people the right way would be a sort of hybrid. Where you'd set it up on a remote server (if you know opencode you know openwork) and you just then have non-tech people do a one time setup to connect to the remote and from then on you can easily extend capabilities.

ben_talenton Show HN: OpenWork – An open-source alternative to Claude Cowork

let me know if you need help, still a bit rough around the edges

ben_talenton Show HN: OpenWork – An open-source alternative to Claude Cowork

I used "open" because: - it's open source - built on top of open source (opencode) - it's built-around extensibility via plain-text files (skills) and open-source plugins

ben_talenton Show HN: OpenWork – An open-source alternative to Claude Cowork

Yes it's fully integrated with Claude Skills.

There's first-class integration of https://github.com/enulus/OpenPackage and we provide a ui to install from a list of skills easily as well as add your own.

ben_talenton Show HN: OpenWork – An open-source alternative to Claude Cowork

Yeah it is still too technical.

First obvious stuff like getting the dmg notarized having easier install.

Then after it will be about optimizing onboarding. One of the core goals is to help Susan do 1 small task in under 5 min.

To do that we will need to: - have some prepackaged configs for folks like starter template - ship opencode within the app itself so users don't need to manually install it - and get rid of the technical jargon that is cluttered in the app.

ben_talenton Show HN: OpenWork – An open-source alternative to Claude Cowork

Fixed as well. Thanks again!

ben_talenton Show HN: OpenWork – An open-source alternative to Claude Cowork

MIT

ben_talenton Show HN: OpenWork – An open-source alternative to Claude Cowork

Updated ! Thanks for flagging

ben_talenton Show HN: OpenWork – An open-source alternative to Claude Cowork

Oh damn thanks for flagging. I just added an MIT license.

ben_talenton Show HN: Supabase for Embeddings

Hi foks Louis & Ben here.

We just wanted to share Embedbase. Embedbase is an open-source api to easily create, store, and rerieve embeddings.

It started out as an internal api for an Obsidian plugin we developed called [AVA](https://github.com/louis030195/obsidian-ava). We use it in AVA to find similar notes ([see small demo](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/25003283/213157399...)), but you can potentially use it to do anything that openai embeddings can do.

Right now it's really quite barebones and basically just abstracts the openai embeddings api & pinecone, but we're planning on making it easy to work with whatever database or auth mechanism.

You can have a look at the github repo here: [https://github.com/another-ai/embedbase](https://github.com/...

Or can sign up for the upcoming hosted version: [https://yep.so/p/embedase](https://yep.so/p/embedase)

ben_talenton Cryptocurrency and the unbanked

This resonates so much with me. Are you familiar with Paul Graham's: How to Disagree http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html

ben_talenton Cryptocurrency and the unbanked

Hey I reposted this article

The conclusion of the article says: "... it's not a magical solution. The reasons for financial exclusion are rooted in deep inequality"

What kind of articles do belong on HN?