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Show HN: Clink – Bring your own CLI Agents, Ship instantly (clink.new)

22 points by aaronSong ↗ HN
Clink lets you use the coding agents you already pay for (Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, Z.ai GLM) to build → live-preview → ship apps in an isolated container.

No token purchases, no extra cost for coding. Just link your existing Claude/OpenAI/Gemini account and start building and deploying instantly.

Why we built this:

Claude Code is our go-to for coding, but it lacked preview + deploy capabilities. We didn't want to pay Lovable again just for that.

Different agents excel at different tasks - Claude Code for versatility, Codex for complex work, GLM for speed. We needed one platform to leverage them all.

CLI agents offer more freedom than traditional web builders. We wanted to unlock their full potential with proper dev tooling.

What it does:

- Prompt → Build → Live → Deploy - The fastest path from idea to live website. Deploy for free.

- BYO Subscription - Use your existing plans efficiently (Claude Code $20 = 10x Lovable $25 usage, GLM $3 = 3x Claude Code $20)

DEV Mode (Beta):

- Multi-stack support - Build with Node, Python, Go, Rust and deploy containers to public URLs instantly

- Repo imports - Upgrade and deploy your existing projects across any stack

Links:

- Clink: https://clink.new

- OSS origin (Claudable, ~2.8k): https://github.com/opactorai/Claudable

We'd love any feedback, bug reports, or stack requests - we iterate fast and read every comment.

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harry7922
This is super cool. Love the idea of using the agents I already pay for instead of signing up for yet another subscription. Curious how you're handling sandboxing and dependency isolation between builds? That's usually the hardest part when trying to make build -> preview -> deploy feel seamless for multiple runtimes.
cba18jy
Interesting use case.

I used many vibe coding apps and also cli agents. This could serve as a useful testbed for evaluating different CLI agents. Does the system support switching between multiple agents, or is that not currently implemented?

jhack
Pretty cool! I see you support deploying to Vercel. Any plans to support other hosts?
mentalgear
Other than having a GUI, how is this different from something more established like openCode ?
ant1894
How does this differ from existiong app builders? I've seen quite a few similar projects.....
willchen
Really interesting project! I tried it last week and ran into same errors and today I tried it again and it worked.

I'm curious how the Clink desktop app connects to the web app. Is it sending some kind of oauth token so you can use call Claude Code, etc, on behalf of the user?

FWIW, I created an open-source project in this space https://github.com/dyad-sh/dyad/ and it's great to see people trying different approaches :)

dohyun1m
I’ve actually used claudable before, and happy that you guys just made an cloud hosted version of it. But how are you handling all those server costs? Since it’s not just a local open source project right now, the fees might be kinda expensive.
cetinsert
We do the same over at https://rtcode.io with "Agent Share"!

Instead of containers and "stacks", we use the web platform with vanilla HTML, CSS and JS (front-/back-end in 1 place)!

Deployments go to Cloudflare!

See examples at https://new.rt.ht – service workers you can edit live in the playground with URL imports of ESMs, get deployed as Cloudflare Workers!