I left VSCode to build an IDE to handle many projects/agents workflow
Details
- External ID
- 49082726
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- I left VSCode to build an IDE to handle many projects/agents workflow
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- July 28, 2026
- Cohort
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- Upvotes
- 8
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.46176821983273597
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
VSCode was my daily driver for years, but once I started running several coding agents across multiple projects at the same time, it got in the way. One workspace with terminals in the bottom tray, no idea which agent was doing what and I found myself needing all the code editing tools less and less.So I built my own IDE around that workflow. Terminals are a first-class citizen, every project stays alive in the background with visual statuses. Close the workspace and come back weeks later, everything is still in its place. I've been using it for weeks and it's a big productivity boost.The idea is a super tight core with a robust extension SDK. Features are built as extensions and are optional. Extensions can easily be built with a coding agent and shared in a registry. All open source.There's many great TUI apps that have similar features, but this is built for someone that loves VSCode. Please try it out and send feedback.
Enrichment
- Theme
- AI agent frameworks and developer tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- ide for multi-project and agent workflows
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Creating a GUI shell for running multiple agents is doable, but building a fully functional custom IDE with robust multi-process terminal multiplexing, LSP support, and process isolation requires non-trivial native systems architecture.
What it would actually take: Requires an Electron, Tauri, or native Rust/C++ desktop application with robust pseudo-terminal (pty) handling, multi-process management, and process sandboxing. Managing concurrent agent execution streams, git worktrees, file locks, and state synchronization across multiple isolated workspaces demands senior systems and desktop UI engineering.
Discussion
7 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: VSCode
Concerns raised: demo difficult to read due to low contrast, demo not optimized for laptop screen sizes
Feature requests: improve demo contrast for better visibility, optimize demo layout for laptop displays
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 341 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #195 of 342 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 270 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Tmux-IDE, OSS agent-first terminal IDE · hn · 2026-03-18 · 88 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Nogic · hn · 2026-01-13 · 135 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Open-Source Visual Wiki Your Coding Agent Writes for You · hn · 2025-11-21 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.47
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