Desktop Commander
AI Agents · AI Development Tools
Overview
Desktop Commander gives ChatGPT and Claude access to your computer, so they read your files, run commands, and see the results themselves. Your own machine, not a cloud sandbox.
Funding and backers
Backers
2
42CAP, BADideas
Momentum
15/100
rising traction
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Oct 2026
Passed 10k GitHub stars
Apr 9
On the Hacker News front page The Zettelkasten method in Obsidian · 117 points
Apr 8, 2025
Launched on Hacker News Show HN: Desktop Commander MCP+Claude = Local Automation with fixed flat price
2025
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
42CAP 
BADideas Investors in similar startupsfunds that back the companies most like this one
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News
Both Codex and Claude got worse this week. Across every plan I retested
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
Riga
Latvia
HQ
Elizabetes iela 8 - 6, Rīga, LV-1010, LV