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Products that do what Rowboat – AI coworker that turns your work into a knowledge graph (OSS) does
Hi HN, AI agents that can run tools on your machine are powerful for knowledge work, but they’re only as useful as the context they have. Rowboat is an open-source, local-first app that turns your work into a living knowledge graph (stored as plain Markdown with backlinks) and uses it to accomplish tasks on your computer. For example, you can say "Build me a deck about our next quarter roadmap." Rowboat pulls priorities and commitments from your graph, loads a presentation skill, and exports a PDF. Our repo is https://github.com/rowboatlabs/rowboat, and there’s a demo…
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Hi HN! We’re Arjun, Ramnique, and Akhilesh, and we are building Rowboat (https://www.rowboatlabs.com/), an AI-assisted IDE for building and managing multi-agent systems. You start with a single agent, then scale up to teams of agents that work together, use MCP tools, and improve over time - all through a chat-based copilot. Our repo is https://github.com/rowboatlabs/rowboat, docs are at https://docs.rowboatlabs.com/, and there’s a demo video here: https://youtu.be/YRTCw9UHRbU It’s becoming clear that real-world agentic systems…
2025 · github.com
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Claude Cowork just launched, bringing agentic AI to everyday work. Rowboat is an open-source alternative that builds knowledge that persists over time. A quick demo is here: https://youtu.be/T2Bmiy05FrI It connects to Gmail and meeting notes (Granola, Fireflies) and organizes them into an Obsidian-compatible vault. Plain Markdown files with backlinks, organized around things like people, projects, organizations, and topics. As new emails and meetings come in, the right notes update automatically. Rowboat is also the primary interface for this vault. You can read, navigate,…
Jan 2026 · rowboatlabs.com
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Hi HN! I’m Eoin, founder of Sourcetable (https://sourcetable.com). Sourcetable is an AI-native spreadsheet that syncs with all your data. Users pair with an AI copilot that helps them do their spreadsheet work, as well as more database-centric analysis and SQL. Soucetable syncs with databases including Postgres, MySQL, and MongoDB, and over 100+ business applications including Stripe, Zendesk, Hubspot, Quickbooks and Google Analytics. That data is available in a spreadsheet, and any models you build automatically update in near-real-time as new data flows in. The core primitives…
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Data Painter is RATH's new feature to interact with your data. It helps you to specify complex visual patterns and find explanations and potential causals. It allows you to do on-flight data labeling, cleaning or even create new features does not exited in original dataset. Everything can be done with a brush tool(painter), You can even play with your data with your fingers on mobile. RATH is an open-source alternative to Tableau, but with more automations. Feedbacks and suggestions are appreciated. RATH's Github: https://github.com/Kanaries/Rath RATH's HomePage:…
2023 · docs.kanaries.net
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