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Radix

Visual UI for agentic programming

Details

External ID
49834964
Source
HN
Company
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Product
Radix
Website domain
radix-os.com
Launched
Sept. 24, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
15
Upvotes percentile
0.6842105263157895
Tags
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Fetched at
Sept. 28, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 28, 2026, 5:01 p.m.

Description

Hey HN, I'm Jordan from Radix.Radix is a UI tool for programming agents. You prompt your agent to generate a workspace for a task you're working on and get an interactive widget that persists locally on disk.I built Radix because I always needed tools while I was writing code: tools to test little experiments, to play around with UI, to visualise results etc. Sometimes these would end up as python tools that read and plotted data, or separate React apps spun up just to test a single feature. Lately obviously I've been using Claude artifacts but these are quite limited.I wanted a system where it was easy to leave comments or adapt an artifact without having to give vague descriptions back to the agent, and where ideally I could actually shift away from a chat window as the main interface.I've got a pro version of Radix which I will launch soon. This current version is entirely free and is definitely a beta -- there will be rough edges!Note: There's no telemetry or data captured. Your messages run entirely through your own agent. I require a key but that's just to get an idea of how many people are using it. Everything is stored locally (the workspaces are actually just React apps which you can edit "artisanally" if you want).If you have any questions please reply here or email me [email protected] you!

Enrichment

Theme
browser automation and scraping for AI
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Dev tools
Audience
Developer
AI stance
AI-native
Project type
Commercial product
Normalized one-liner
visual interface for agentic programming
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Partial Creating a web UI with mock widgets is simple, but building a persistent desktop workspace that interacts with agent CLI sessions, reads local repositories, and renders live sandboxed components directly from agent edits requires dedicated systems integration.

What it would actually take: The architecture typically uses an Electron or Tauri desktop wrapper containing a reactive frontend (React/Solid) communicating with a local Go/Rust daemon over WebSockets or IPC. The daemon watches the Git repository, manages file system diffs, and coordinates with CLI agent tools (like Claude Code) via a standard tool protocol (MCP or custom CLI hooks) to dynamically generate and execute interactive UI widgets in isolated sandboxes. Expertise in local process orchestration, IPC security, and dynamic component rendering is required.

Discussion

16 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: Radix UI

Concerns raised: Confusing name overlaps with Radix UI, Landing page lacks clear explanation of value and use cases, Obtrusive notification UI at bottom of screen

Feature requests: Rebrand to avoid name confusion

Competitors

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Attention rank: #41 of 99 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 315 days after the earliest competitor.

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