Conductor is joining Meta

The whole team is around to help answer any questions. You can reach out to me personally at charlie [at] melty.sh.

    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.

There is literally no moat in most software expect the users a product has acquired. The number of slightly different solution to an existing product is wild. And this is getting crazier. I build for the fun of it now. Completely lost any sight of $ goals.

I am building agents, have own gui framework, own server orchestration, and now looking at deploying multi-app servers using unikernels. I build for my niche audience and make them happy - I am going via my existing clients who are in the property management domain. Non technical folks who have to handle everything from inspection to finance. My ideal type of folks.

I am sure by the time I build my end to end agent/orchestration/deployment/management system, I will have some customers and many more clones. Slightly different clones. This is the future. Why would anyone acquire anything?

They need my prompts, not my tech.

Does anyone have suggestions for products that can match Conductor Cloud, not just Conductor Local?

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!

I switched to Paseo long ago because of its full featured mobile app, local client server architecture, and open sourcedness. Conductor began to feel stale, pricey, and understandably but annoying for me moving toward enterprise.

It seems like it's got a lot of utility for my team and I, but jesus

I guess that's the kick I needed to dig into the alternatives.

Its crazy how fast the tech field is moving

No sign-up required - the angle I'm taking is that juggler is a client-server architecture, and if you want cloud VM sessions, you just spin up your own server and run a juggler server process on there. Its GUI is identical whether it's a local or remote session.

(I'd never actually heard of conductor, but interesting to see that people do want that kind of managed cloud backend server. I might think about the logistics of offering that)

And I promise to never sell-out to Meta[1].

[1] Nah, of course I would if they offered me a really huge amount of money.

I personally never thought Conductor was that great, so I built my own with https://podium.do.

What I was missing was a built-in task system so more complex tasks can be split up by the agents. And running agents on my own machines of course.

Would highly recommend it for anyone looking for an alternative with Conductor shutting down.

Very happy to see the team get a happy ending/landing!

Since then my company has 2 subsequent AI transformations, during the first we went fully agentic, and agents started pushing in 10k LOC PRs after churning away at the problem for hours.

Even then I felt a profound loss of control, but now we are trying to take the next step, and even automate more stuff, and remove other bottlenecks, like CI/CD or VCS or ticketing, to cope with pushing an order of magnitude more code even than previously.

So I'm feeling the exponentials, also the profound loss of control, and not having the faintest idea of what's going on. Now I understand how people get AI psychosis.

As for the results, they are.... not there's a lot of things going on and I suspect most of said complexity is incidental.

disclosure: I am one of the founders

And today we're doing a refund + moving the org to t3.codes instead.

Boo Meta. Boooooooo.

I'll prolly have claude reverse engineer conductor over the next month so the show can go on ...

> Conductor Cloud goes read-only on November 13 and shuts down on November 20.

3 sentences later

> Add your own completion sounds in Settings → General. Pick a sound file, name it, and choose it like any other sound.

If you're shutting down in *9 days* I really don't care that you added custom sound effects.

nice to get paid by meta, but cmmon read the room.

Pretty much all of these are variations of the same AI ingested slop xeroxing itself repeatedly.

The only difference between all of them seems to some UI, integrations, or different steps to do the same thing

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> Friday, Nov 20

> Conductor Cloud shuts down

> We begin deleting Conductor Cloud user data. Please export your data before this date.

Oh yeah, gonna love that!

I will avoid Meta and Google as much as possible.

Why did you sell out?