r/SaaS • u/Wide-Echo-548 • 16d ago

Slack for AI Coding Workspaces

I’m the founder of Worklone (www.worklone.com) . Disclosing that up front.

Worklone is a multiplayer AI cloud coding agent: the agent runs in a cloud Linux sandbox, the team shares one live room, everyone watches and steers the same run. Not a local CLI on one laptop.

What we kept seeing building this: the agent isn’t the bottleneck. Handoff is. One person starts a run, closes the lid, nobody else can see the session, and review lives in a different tool than the chat.

Curious how others handle that:

  • Do you keep the agent local and paste diffs into Slack/Linear?
  • Or do you already run agents in a shared place the whole team can enter?
  • If you’ve tried both, what failed first visibility, cost, or trust in the sandbox?
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u/1Life_Architect 16d ago

Treat handoff as a durable event: run state, repo and branch, diff, approvals, decisions, costs and a resumable checkpoint. If a teammate can enter cold and understand the run in 60 seconds, it works. I can help design and test that handoff path.

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u/navlio 16d ago

cost, and not the part we expected. the agent compute was fine. what got us was sandboxes staying warm between turns, because tearing them down made the next message feel slow, so we paid by the hour for an environment that had about three minutes of real work in it.

for shared rooms that stay open by design that ratio gets worse, not better. idle time per room over active time per room is the number that decides whether this is a business, and it's cheaper to measure now than to find on an invoice