Show HN: Paseo – Beautiful open-source coding agent interface
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Repo: https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo

Homepage: https://paseo.sh/

Discord: https://discord.gg/jz8T2uahpH

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jjcm
1 hour ago
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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.

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ASalazarMX
51 minutes ago
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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?

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arikrahman
43 minutes ago
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I have the same reaction, it goes into a discard pile for me.
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akoumjian
31 minutes ago
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I think this is a neat idea. Is there a way to self-host the web app interface?
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yoavshai
22 minutes ago
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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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