Show HN: Conductor sold to Meta. Rebuilding the app (3 days, $170) (MIT)
Re: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50369503#50370152 --- Still more to do, and lots of kinks to be worked out, but Conductor 0.92.1’s own frontend can run on this project’s Rust shell and sidecar. Every one of its on-screen strings, native commands and sidecar methods is matched or listed as a deliberate difference. On scripted scenarios, this project’s sidecar produces the same events as Conductor’s. Deliberate differences are documented in docs/decisions.md. Built with Opus 5.5 orchestra
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Public summary: Re: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50369503#50370152 --- Still more to do, and lots of kinks to be worked out, but Conductor 0.92.1’s own frontend can run on this project’s Rust shell and sidecar. Every one of its on-screen strings, native commands and sidecar methods is matched or listed as a deliberate difference. On scripted scenarios, this project’s sidecar produces the same events as Conductor’s. Deliberate differences are documented in docs/decisions.md. Built with Opus 5.5 orchestra
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This Other product change may create upgrade, compatibility, training, review or alternative needs.
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Affected users, switching cost, adoption scale and a chargeable deliverable are missing.
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Confirm versions and users, extract repeated barriers, then test an offer deliverable within two weeks.