BlueHotDog2

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Co-founder of Frontman (https://frontman.sh) — open-source AI coding agent that lives in your browser. Hooks into your dev server as middleware to see the live DOM, component tree, styles, and routes.

Previously: Founder/CTO Walnut, Founder/CEO Jaco Analytics (acq by WalkMe). Building with Elixir + ReScript.

GitHub: https://github.com/BlueHotDog Twitter: https://x.com/DanniFriedland

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Comment · 1 month ago
Frontman - like lovable but for your existing apps. Tiqet - a local first, workspace aware task manager built for agents :)
Comment · 5 months ago
created https://github.com/frontman-ai/frontman, not exclusivly for myself but something i'm passionate about(might turn into a paid product).

basically trying to see what a vertically integrated agent looks like, where the agent has deep access inside a framework and it operates from within a framework, so like, instead of reading files, opening processes etc - it gets a bunch of framework specific runtime tools(logs are the easiest example)

Comment · 6 months ago
Did you try us out?
Comment · 6 months ago
Frontman creator here. Thanks for posting about it! Just to be clear, its not just brower-based. but also vertically integrated into the framework. we allow for much easier flow for semi-technical/non-technical people. By being visual we allow our users to just easily work. and by integrating deeply into the framework we're seeing much better results even then claude code and with smaller models(Frontman is very good even with Gemini Nano)
Comment · 6 months ago
i understand what you're trying to say, but a junior will ship broken code to prod.. even with agents. he might keep delegating to agents to fix it, but that cycle will produce more brittleness(like the folks at claude code folks keep discovering). but eventually the organization will push back and ask why it's so brittle and costs more(time/money/people)
Comment · 6 months ago
nice. what a crazy space. how is this different vs other telemetry/analysis platforms such as langchain/braintrust etc?
Comment · 7 months ago
this is super cool. going to give it a try. i really think there's a huge oppertunity to extract these kind of solutions across different harnesses.
Comment · 7 months ago
This is cool and i keep thinking about CRDTs as a baseline for version control, but CRDTs has some major issues, mainly the fact that most of them are strict and "magic" in the way they actually converge(like the joke: CRDTs always converge, but to what). i didn't read if he's using some special CRDT that might solve for that, but i think that for agentic work especially this is very interesting
Comment · 8 months ago
what bothers me is, while CRDTS converge, the question is to what. in this case, it seems like there's a last-write-wins semantic. which is very problematic as an implicit assumption for code(or anything where this isn't the explicit invaraint)
Comment · 8 months ago
yes. just need to build a plugin for it
Comment · 8 months ago
its funny how we're back again measuring lines of code as the sole indicator for cost/quality etc
Comment · 8 months ago
WebMCP is a protocol for exposing tools the AI can call from your running web app. the point isn't "consume API tokens", it's "let the AI do stuff in your app" (click buttons, fill forms, read DOM state). The Gemini integration is just the orchestrator for the example implementation. not the protocol

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