Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop
话题背景
Claude’s desktop app is brilliant, but for our own daily work we kept wanting it to be less like a chat app and more like a full-fledged work app. Rowboat is our attempt at that, including the ability to build your own work surfaces inside Rowboat (more below).Our repo is https://github.com/rowboatlabs/rowboat, and there’s a demo video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et5yQABJ3xIIn a previous startup, we built a deep-learning product for enterprise support reps, including teams supporting P&G brands. Models took live notes, suggested replies, and recommended actions while support reps were on calls or handling emails. One lesson stuck with us: it's not enough for the AI to be right, the help has to show up where the work is happening.So we added what we came to call “work surfaces”: dedicated areas for email, meetings, notes, browser, and parallel coding, where the assistant can help inside the workflow itself rather than only through chat:- Email client: Rowboat has a simple email client that sorts incoming emails into important vs. everything else, and pre-creates drafts for important emails. As you edit and send emails, it takes notes on your style, so future drafts get closer to your voice.- Meeting notes: We built a Granola-style local meeting notetaker. Notes are stored as plain Markdown files on your machine. After a meeting, Rowboat feeds the notes back into the knowledge graph and updates the relevant people, project, and topic notes.- Browser: We added a built-in browser, isolated from your main one, where you can log in only to the accounts you want the assistant to help with. The assistant uses browser-use skills to navigate websites.- Parallel coding: The code-mode inside Rowboat lets you spin multiple instances of Claude Code or Codex and either work with them directly or let Rowboat use your work context to orchestrate them. We built an ACP (Agent Client Protocol) client in Rowboat for this.- Notes: Rowboat has an Obsidian-style local note-taking system. It comes with graph view, bases view, and voice notes. You can also sync Google Docs files and edit them inside Rowboat.You can also build your own work surfaces inside Rowboat (web apps). Each app gets its own UI and a background agent, and can use all of Rowboat's tools, product integrations, and your work memory. For instance: an app to manage GitHub activity, project tracking, or ads campaign management. There are a few community apps at launch you can search and install, and you can publish your own by creating a GitHub repo for it and registering it.Rowboat also indexes your work into a knowledge graph that all of the above surfaces use to have better context. We did a Show HN a few months back on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46962641.As an example that ties some of these together: you can create an app inside Rowboat that collects feature requests from your email, meetings, and Slack and ranks them, then uses Claude Code to draft a first version of the
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这一进展值得密切关注。它反映了当前科技行业的几个重要趋势：首先，技术创新正在加速从实验室走向市场应用；其次，行业竞争格局正在发生变化，新的机会窗口正在打开；最后，用户需求的变化正在反向推动技术迭代方向。
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短期来看，这个方向的进展速度可能超出市场预期。中长期看，它对行业的改变将是根本性的。建议持续关注后续动态，尤其是主要玩家的下一步动作。
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