Show HN: Conductor, a Mac app that lets you run a bunch of Claude Codes at once

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• dgritsko 10 hours ago
  This is awesome. A couple of suggestions:

  - It'd be great to change the default branch used for creating new workspaces.

  - I'd like the ability to add custom tools to the "Open in..." menu.

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  • Charlieholtz 9 hours ago
    Ah yeah! Which IDE do you use?

    > It'd be great to change the default branch used for creating new workspaces. Yeah you can actually change this now! If you click the repo name you can make changes to the "setup script". If you added `git checkout -b "branch name"` it would run that on every new workspace instance.

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    • dgritsko 9 hours ago
      At the moment it's mostly Cursor or VS Code, but I was actually thinking of SourceTree. I'd like to look at the pending changes and manage the commits myself, and I could do that if I could add "open -a SourceTree ." as a custom command. I didn't see a place to edit a setup script, is that just on the filesystem?
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      • Charlieholtz 8 hours ago
        Got it! If you click the repository name in the left sidebar, you should see a field for setup script.
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        • dgritsko 7 hours ago
          FWIW, this is what I wound up with - keeps the original branch name but ensures that it's based on the latest from the "dev" branch:

          orig_branch=$(git branch --show-current) && git checkout dev && git pull && git branch -D "$orig_branch" && git checkout -b "$orig_branch"
        • dgritsko 8 hours ago
          Ah, excellent - appreciate the help! I'm already getting a ton of value out of this tool, thanks for sharing!
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          • Charlieholtz 6 hours ago
            wooo that's awesome to hear! keep the feedback coming!
• jamil7 10 hours ago
  Oh cool, I was already doing this with git worktrees but a ui for it would be handy.
• WalterSear 10 hours ago
  You might want to mention it's silicon only.
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  • Charlieholtz 9 hours ago
    Sorry about that, working on Intel right now!
• 38 4 hours ago
  Claude is absolute trash. I am on the paid plan and repeatedly hit the limits. and their support is essentially non existing, even for paid accounts