Show HN: Paseo – Beautiful open-source coding agent interface(github.com)
31 pointsby timhigins5 hours ago10 comments
  • boudraan hour ago
    I'm the maintainer of Paseo. I didn't submit this, so it was a nice surprise to see it on HN!

    I'm around if anyone has questions about the project.

    • wolfi126 minutes ago
      btw, there is already a paseo package on f-droid, it's a step counter
  • keyle2 hours ago
    "Ship on the go" is so insane to me.

    It's like people pulling their phones out while taking a piss standing, or having to pull their phones out when the traffic lights are red in a crossing.

    Just, do one thing at a time, live a life.

    Shipping code from your phone, whhhyy. Mates, this isn't a flex, it's depression.

    • appendjeffa minute ago
      This seems extreme. Maybe I’m just optimistic but I think people can be intentional and present while also having the convenience and accessibility that something like paseo offers.

      - If I’m on-call, it would be great to just take my iPad mini around with me instead of my heavy MacBook Pro. - Sometimes I’m on the couch with my phone and want to query an agent with access to my computer’s file system.

  • navsan hour ago
    This looks like something worth trying and I'm glad it's open source. I've been using https://github.com/openchamber/openchamber for a few months now and I'm pleased with its features. Their web based pwa and locally running cli is similar.
  • jjcm4 hours ago
    Not to undercut the open source nature of this, but what makes this "beautiful"? From a design standpoint, it's basic tailwind. Neutral grey tailwind at that, using Lucide icons. There's nothing wrong with these, but it'd be more apt to say that the design is unopinionated. It's the default choice when design intent is the afterthought and a focus is on functionality.

    Again, not trying to undercut - looks like a solid agent interface, it just struck me as strange that beautiful was the adjective chosen when design seems to not be the objective here.

    • ASalazarMX3 hours ago
      When I see "Beautiful", I automatically ignore it. Beauty is subjective, fashion changes. Bootstrap or React were considered beautiful in their time.

      So basically an open source agentic GUI. Instead of "beautiful", it should emphasize what makes it special. Is it fast or lightweight? Does it do something other tools don't? Or does it do it better? What's it killer feature?

      • Lalabadie2 hours ago
        (Designer here) I like checking up what a product looks like when it's pitched as "beautiful". Mostly there are two ways to really meet that promise:

            1. Masterful application of a trend (Stripe, Raycast)
    2. Strong and recognizable personality (!boring, Notion, OG Basecamp)
        Option 2 is the most accessible to small teams, but it's not an intuitive conclusion to draw. Both need an experienced designer to succeed, but option 1 sounds like it's a safe bet instead of a leap.

        Most claimed "beautiful" products result from work done without the experience & taste to tell option 1 apart from an attempt at option 1.

        In reality, you can pull off a strong personality and a clumsy execution, whereas following a trend clumsily looks like failing to read the room, and leaves you looking dated almost instantly.

      • encodedrose2 hours ago
        I do think it's possible for one to qualify/quantify the how and why they deemed their product "beautiful".
      • arikrahman3 hours ago
        I have the same reaction, it goes into a discard pile for me.
    • elicash2 hours ago
      If you were to compare it to a painting or to the Grand Canyon or to the Northern Lights or like an act of kindness or a parent's love for their child or something, then I guess fine, not beautiful.

      But for an open source project it's very nice!

      (Note: none of the marketing materials for the website chose that word, at first glance. It seems to just be a descriptor given by the HN poster.)

      • boudraan hour ago
        I'm the maintainer of Paseo. This is correct, I do not use the word beautiful anywhere.

        I personally do think it's beautiful (obviously), but I would not use that word in marketing materials, I'd rather people judge from seeing the screenshots or trying the product.

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  • akoumjian3 hours ago
    I think this is a neat idea. Is there a way to self-host the web app interface?
    • boudraan hour ago
      Maintainer here. Yes, the web app is a static Expo export, so the simplest self-host path is to build packages/app and serve the generated dist/ with any static HTTP server. The daemon itself is published to npm as `@getpaseo/cli`.

      Docs for this are currently missing, and I should probably package all of this in a Docker image. I'll do that today!

  • yoavshai3 hours ago
    Looks incredible, I just built what seems to be a shittier version of this using OrbStack + JJ a couple days ago. Will take a look!
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