Show HN: Y – A malleable coding-agent desktop app built with Electron

ermantrout

Hey this is pretty cool

joelres

Very cool! Suggestion: would be helpful to include examples of what's possible, or some things to try (or things that are explicitly prevented).

warpech

Cool! Your readme mentions Modify. What’s that? Does this use some generative UI?

joeyguerra

Reminds of smalltalk.

eightysixfour

This is cool conceptually, but "y" do I have to login to your site if it is local and uses my Claude Code?

lellow

I like it. I see this concept of allowing users to modify things to cater to their preferences being the future tbh.

seabass

An app ui that can be modified by end users is a really cool idea. I hope to see that in more apps!

tuo-lei

does the userland persist across app updates? curious what happens to my modify changes when you ship a new version of y

dhruv3006

I guess this is in tune with the yc rfs - https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs#dynamic-software-interfaces - but i do have the same question for the app updates - you will break everything as soon as the update takes place - this opens up a nice rabbit hole for discussion.