Conductor is joining Meta

ayayronf

Congrats to the conductor team! The timeline to migrate off Conductor Cloud feels very aggressive. What tooling are other folks moving to?

babelfish

Congrats to the team, but bummed out that I'm losing my favorite IDE!

markerz

Things will shut down over the next few months. https://www.conductor.build/announcement : Wednesday, Nov 4 New users can no longer sign up for Conductor or download the app. Friday, Nov 13 Conductor Cloud goes read-only Local Conductor will continue working as normal for now. It will start winding down in early 2027. Flashback to Cloudflare acquiring Deno and hiding the shutdown at the bottom of their announcement -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50019911 .

phildenhoff

Congratulations to the team - but it's a bitter ending. I wish, in these cases, the company could open source a version of their desktop software. But I'm sure the tech is part of what Meta is acquiring. I started using Conductor in January this year and it was a great tool - Charlie and the team knocked it out of the park. I only migrated to Orca when I needed better multi-machine control, and remote control, but these tools are a dime-a-dozen now. I'm not sure that if I was hunting for a new tool today that I'd pick up Orca. Maybe Herdr? or Stencil's Tern? All that to say - they built a great product with great UX. Looking forward to seeing what they build next at Meta!

BowBun

Gah this sucks! Conductor is my main development tool. Now I'm forced to look for alternatives. Why can't they open source it?

paaloeye

I'm so glad I haven't even heard of them

forthwall

The economics of these harnesses I don't think lend to many winners, the model usage plans the big guys have at offer will always undercut the small players no matter how much they try to resell an openmodel for $20/mo. Congrats to the team though!

iamunr

Literally just went to go "all in" on conductor yesterday, and buy into their cloud setup and hope the company keeps going. And today we're doing a refund + moving the org to t3.codes instead. Boo Meta. Boooooooo.

gdulli

Everything you add to your tech stack is a liability. Period. I've always leaned minimalist.

gosen

Glad for the team, sad for the product

jahala

Conductor is awesome. Meta sucks donkey balls, and I refuse to use their products. I'll prolly have claude reverse engineer conductor over the next month so the show can go on ...

Charlieholtz

Hi! Co-founder here. Conductor actually kicked off with a HN post many lifetimes ago in July 2025 ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44594584 ). I owe so much to this community. Thank you all so much! The whole team is around to help answer any questions. You can reach out to me personally at charlie [at] melty.sh.

paultannenbaum

Heavy conductor user here. Does the hacker news community have any suggestions for replacements?

cute_boi

T3 code is much better than conductor. I will avoid Meta and Google as much as possible.

leofree

Might be a dumb question but can you explain in a couple words the benefit VS a well organized claude code CLI that knows to spin sub agents?

doublerabbit

> The whole team is around to help answer any questions Why did you sell out?

gepeake

Glad I started migrating all my projects to Paseo yesterday!

dayone1

why sellout your company and your customers and community?

stevenou

Extremely bummed about this. Having cloud webhooks + workspace/session API + isolated VMs has been a massive productivity boost for me. Does anyone have suggestions for products that can match Conductor Cloud, not just Conductor Local?

217

I will miss it dearly.