The tagline might feel off if you're already comfortable with CLI. Though there's definitely an audience for this — my co-founder posted about struggling with CLI and it got 240k views with 400+ replies of people feeling the same: https://x.com/serafimcloud/status/2002304990053085542
Even as a technical person, I remember my transition from Cursor to Claude Code CLI being rough. Maybe 1Code could be a way to get the best of both worlds, power of claude code and UX of Cursor
Thanks! for us monetization is more about signal - people who spend $20 are the ones who really want this to work, and we want to build for them. We have a private Discord with our Pro users where we discuss what to build next, share feedback and tips and tricks.
What's the story on local-only operation with a paid subscription? If it works like it seems to from the screen shots and video, I'm more than happy to pay for this even while using the OSS version (and I probably am going to modify it myself quite a bit for my own use-cases), but in my work environment:
1. Absolutely nothing can be sent off-site
2. All AI API requests must go through our custom gateway (we've got deals with all the major AI providers, and I think that even involves a degree of isolated hosting in specific approved cloud environments)
While $20/mo feels a bit weird for an app that doesn't rely on its own cloud service, I'd subscribe right now just because I do "really want this to work".
We started building this after trying existing tools like Claude Code desktop. We realized we couldn't fully transition to them — my co-founder went back to Cursor and burned tons of money on tokens.
So we decided to build a tool that WE would actually use, and once we succeeded with that, we open-sourced it.
Since then we've received a lot of feedback on where to take this product - some use cases Anthropic will probably never do, like integrating Codex or adding other z.ai GLM subscription.
We're just trying to ship something we use ourselves, and maybe it could be useful to others, and see where it goes.
Can you expand on this further? You’re using a sandbox to “spoof” authentication by intercepting the auth token to a web browser? You use the agent-sdk which is fine but youre supposed to ONLY use that via api I thought?
Ah, I see. My only other caveat (other models/agents) is addressed in upcoming work to do. Otherwise, looks good, simple/straightforward UI, functional. Great work overall.
The web version runs Claude Codes in remote sandboxes - we're adding the same to macOS soon.
Beyond that, we're working on API & integrations - connecting Sentry so an agent can automatically open a PR to fix an issue, or triggering Claude Codes directly from @ mentioning in GitHub/Slack/Linear.
Hmm. But the value of using claude code for me is that it runs on my local machine. I have setup several skills / commands / workflows that rely on the content on my machine. So i guess using it on a remote sandbox won't help me.
On pricing: honestly, the paid tier is less about monetization right now and more about signal. People who pay are the ones who really want this to work, and we want to build for them first. It helps us focus.
> On pricing: honestly, the paid tier is less about monetization right now and more about signal. People who pay are the ones who really want this to work, and we want to build for them first. It helps us focus.
Honestly I am pretty frugal usually but respect. I think I read something like this either in some VC idea where people will intentionally raise prices in the start to see if their market is fit as you say (or perhaps I am butchering it, but you put it out wonderfully)
I just hope that in the end, you guys become competitive to things like exe.dev which is what I currently use (for completely free mind you but its in alpha version) but it provides an agent shelly with the web in a sandbox and I think that they are gonna focus on being more competitive in the market and there are multiple of options right now
Though just now I saw that 1code.dev is an YC backed startup and um, being honest, I have just less faith in YC backed/VC funded startups unless proven otherwise because VC requires profits so they might be incentivized to keep the pricing on the upper side of things and not change as you mention
I am not exactly sure how things would go for your product and I am unable to get a clear visual understanding of what you are trying to achieve but I feel like there are some things which you can do to solve it as the GP said
Basically please dont get enshittified in the end.
noted, title comes from my cofounder who's not technical, but he loved Cursor, I was convincing Serafim to try Claude Code, but he just couldn't use it. Cause it was a CLI, then I created a first alpha version of this UI for them .... and he loved it! he's now a fan of Claude Code, and that's where reasoning for "useful" coming from
