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

135 pointsposted 2 days ago
by ben_talent

25 Comments

louis030195

6 hours ago

Looks great. I don't use opencode myself but like a lot Claude skills, agents, I have like 50 different ones for personal life, work, dating, whatever Is there integration with Claude skills?

Have you considered using or integrating with ACP? https://zed.dev/acp

We use it in our desktop app IDE (mediar.ai) and it's pretty good

xyzsparetimexyz

4 hours ago

Dating??? Christ, this planet is cooked.

kevmo314

an hour ago

Surely that is a joke… I hope…

browningstreet

3 hours ago

Personally I’m skeptical and a bit dismissive of an insta- clone of commercial offerings. I ignore these things until they’re 3-6 months old and still iterating.

Announcements on their own are like whispers.

NSPG911

3 hours ago

how does it compare to opencode's own gui that uses tauri?

McAdam

7 hours ago

Still feels a bit technical. The Claude approach is designed for "Susan in Accounting" - what thoughts do you have to reduce the technical barriers?

ben_talent

7 hours ago

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.

rose8

6 hours ago

sounds cool! I'm non technical, I get the workflow with controling home assistant. How could I use this at work? Like how could the workflow be between marketing and devs, for example, for website work, can I change content without dealing with GitHub?

kevinoconnell

6 hours ago

yo this is so sick, could def incorporate this into my workflow

ben_talent

6 hours ago

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

yowlingcat

5 hours ago

Great stuff and very timely. I just started getting into using opencode and while I'm hugely optimistic about its capabilities and can use it personally without too much sweat, I was left hoping for something a bit more batteries included to give to my non technical colleagues so we can collaborate together. This looks to be exactly what we were looking for so I am looking forward to giving it a spin!

ben_talent

4 hours ago

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.

imiric

6 hours ago

The word "open" in software names has completely lost its meaning.

dmd

33 minutes ago

How much more open do you want it to be? It’s MIT licensed.

ben_talent

6 hours ago

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

torstenvl

8 hours ago

This isn't open source.

ben_talent

8 hours ago

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

gus_massa

7 hours ago

Beware that the readme.md still says "TBD" at the bottom.