OpenWork (YC P26)

[Benjamin Shafii | OpenWork (YC P26) @benjaminshafii]

ok sorry guys, but openai realtime is really dope

super scrappy demo of how it works inside of openwork

shipping tomorrow in the app

[OpenWork (YC P26) @getopenwork]

Live on alpha, soon in stable.

[Benjamin Shafii | OpenWork (YC P26) @benjaminshafii]

We want to make OpenWork the best place to get work done.

so we're shipping:
- OpenWork Artifacts
- @ollama support
- @OpenAI image gen 2
- And our new extension system

[OpenWork (YC P26) @getopenwork]

So will you take the $2M yes or no?

[Benjamin Shafii | OpenWork (YC P26) @benjaminshafii]

Are $2M worth of credits in OpenAI really worth it?

[commit @commitvc]

OSSCAR Scaling rundown #5 => #1
Continuing the OSSCAR Top 50 countdown for the Scaling category! 📈

#5 Noctalia ships noctalia-shell, a sleek, minimal Wayland desktop shell crafted for the Linux community that wants beauty without bloat

[Benjamin Shafii | OpenWork (YC P26) @benjaminshafii]

I should've stopped at that tweet, but I didn't.

[OpenWork (YC P26) @getopenwork]

Can't see much, but looks good.

[Benjamin Shafii | OpenWork (YC P26) @benjaminshafii]

Day 3 of making OpenWork Labs Launch Week

Introducing: Handsfree — control your computer with your voice.

It uses MCPs for deep app integrations and computer use as the escape hatch for everything else.

Still early, but feels like the beginning.

[OpenWork (YC P26) @getopenwork]

OpenWork please make this graph more sexy:

[Benjamin Shafii | OpenWork (YC P26) @benjaminshafii]

We just crossed 15k stars on github + our daily signups 10x in May.

[Benjamin Shafii | OpenWork (YC P26) @benjaminshafii]

We just crossed 15k stars on github + our daily signups 10x in May.

[Benjamin Shafii | OpenWork (YC P26) @benjaminshafii]

Day 2 of making OpenWork 💅

- New org onboarding screen — sign in and immediately see what your team set up (providers, marketplaces, workers)
- Pick your default model right from onboarding
- Cloud vs local provider badges so you know where things come from
- Toast when new providers get added — click to pick a new default
- Model picker redesign: provider accordions, recommended models, choose exactly which models show up in your session
- Can't accidentally disconnect cloud-managed providers anymore
- Clean sign-out that actually cleans up

[Benjamin Shafii | OpenWork (YC P26) @benjaminshafii]

The big one: shell customization.
You can now toggle sidebar, status bar, docs, feedback, model picker, browser panel, welcome page -- all from settings.
This is the foundation for white-labeling. Change the app name, hide what you don't want users touching. Locally today, cloud-managed soon.

[Benjamin Shafii | OpenWork (YC P26) @benjaminshafii]

AI providers/models got their own global settings section. Separated from General so it's not buried. Uses the same components as the Cloud dashboard.

[Benjamin Shafii | OpenWork (YC P26) @benjaminshafii]

Sign-in button is right in the status bar now. No more digging through Cloud settings to connect. One click.
Moved authorized folders into its own Permissions tab. Settings home is now a hub that links everywhere instead of a wall of toggles.

[Benjamin Shafii | OpenWork (YC P26) @benjaminshafii]

Workspace icons are dynamic now. Each workspace name generates a unique gradient using @paper shaders. They actually look good at 16px. Also replaced the loading shimmer with an animated orb -- way cleaner.

[Benjamin Shafii | OpenWork (YC P26) @benjaminshafii]

Been on a P2 feature bender. Shipped a bunch of stuff I've wanted for a long time in @getopenwork today:

[OpenWork (YC P26) @getopenwork]

Browser automation in OpenWork

[OpenWork (YC P26) @getopenwork]

Bunch of new features coming together:
- New OpenWork MCP
- Compatibility with Anthropic Plugins
- Marketplaces to assign specific plugins to your team
- RBAC

[Benjamin Shafii | OpenWork (YC P26) @benjaminshafii]

Just launched the easiest way to share your agents/skills/mcp with your team.

We built the OpenWork MCP to essentially allow you to write:
"Please share this skil/mcp with the sales team"

Sales team then gets access to it via a small marketplace.

It's our favorite way to share skills internally.

[louis030195 | screenpipe (YC S26) @louis030195]

after playing around a lot with ralph wiggum loops i think i realized this kind of long running agent is only valuable for these use cases:
- research (experimental auto training)
- building new product from scratch
- processes that have time bottleneck (eg. long computation)

for other types of long running agents it's better to rely on scheduled agents (have 50+ right now) that maintains a state across runs in a more non deterministic way

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

OpenWork (@getopenwork) is the open source alternative to Claude Cowork.

Roll out AI compliantly across your non-technical org at scale. Use your existing agents, deploy on-prem, and use any LLM provider you want.

They already have 14k stars on GitHub with over 150k downloads.

Congrats on the launch, @benjaminshafii!

https://t.co/eRqwk7gPlH

[OpenWork (YC P26) @getopenwork]

@sabir_huss50540 @ycombinator yep under the hood we use @opencode

and you can extend it easily with any non supported providers.

[Benjamin Shafii | OpenWork (YC P26) @benjaminshafii]

Very impressed by ChatGPT Image v2.

Fed a text-only transcript from an internal discussion about the @getopenwork roadmap.