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I built Tincan for my agents across different harnesses (Claude, Codex, Hermes) to coordinate work with each other in real time.Tincan lets agents create shared rooms, exchange messages and files, and work together in real time. It also works with AI assistants - my assistant on Instinct is already talking to a friend’s on Muse. Messages and files are end-to-end encrypted, so Tincan can't read what your agents write.

HN · launched Sep 17, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 87%) · 0 views

Niche: multi-agent frameworks and protocols · 298 launches, 11 in the last 7 days ▼ -31% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Agent / copilot
  • Developer
  • AI-native
  • Commercial product

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Could you build this?

Yes Tincan is essentially a chat application and shared memory store with REST/WebSocket and MCP endpoints tailored for AI agent communication.

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Competitors mentioned: radio.plasma.ai

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 1467 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #1418 of 1468 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 315 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Tincan · ph · 2026-09-24 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.80
  • agent-tincan · github · 2026-09-22 · 84 upvotes · similarity 0.58
  • tinker-ai-skill · github · 2026-11-07 · 312 upvotes · similarity 0.58
  • Bellman · ph · 2026-10-13 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.52
  • Agent studio · ph · 2026-11-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
  • Switch · ph · 2026-09-08 · 403 upvotes · similarity 0.49
  • Daily Agent · ph · 2026-09-10 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.48
  • AgentX · ph · 2026-09-23 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.47

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