The tagline might feel off if you're already comfortable with CLI. Though there's definitely an audience for this — my co-founder posted about struggling with CLI and it got 240k views with 400+ replies of people feeling the same: https://x.com/serafimcloud/status/2002304990053085542
Even as a technical person, I remember my transition from Cursor to Claude Code CLI being rough. Maybe 1Code could be a way to get the best of both worlds, power of claude code and UX of Cursor
Thanks! for us monetization is more about signal - people who spend $20 are the ones who really want this to work, and we want to build for them. We have a private Discord with our Pro users where we discuss what to build next, share feedback and tips and tricks.
We started building this after trying existing tools like Claude Code desktop. We realized we couldn't fully transition to them — my co-founder went back to Cursor and burned tons of money on tokens.
So we decided to build a tool that WE would actually use, and once we succeeded with that, we open-sourced it.
Since then we've received a lot of feedback on where to take this product - some use cases Anthropic will probably never do, like integrating Codex or adding other z.ai GLM subscription.
We're just trying to ship something we use ourselves, and maybe it could be useful to others, and see where it goes.
The web version runs Claude Codes in remote sandboxes - we're adding the same to macOS soon.
Beyond that, we're working on API & integrations - connecting Sentry so an agent can automatically open a PR to fix an issue, or triggering Claude Codes directly from @ mentioning in GitHub/Slack/Linear.
On pricing: honestly, the paid tier is less about monetization right now and more about signal. People who pay are the ones who really want this to work, and we want to build for them first. It helps us focus.
noted, title comes from my cofounder who's not technical, but he loved Cursor, I was convincing Serafim to try Claude Code, but he just couldn't use it. Cause it was a CLI, then I created a first alpha version of this UI for them .... and he loved it! he's now a fan of Claude Code, and that's where reasoning for "useful" coming from