A two-person YC company posted two videos, and an open-source project that lets agents message each other got 1600 stars in three weeks: similar tools already existed, the difference is whether it gets shipped
What it is An open-source tool that runs a small daemon on each computer, letting your coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, etc.) and yours teammates' agents, plus web assistants like Grok Bot and Muse, see each other and exchange messages peer-to-peer, end-to-end encrypted.
Why it took off The YC company behind it ran two launch videos back to back on its X account (618k and 399k views), the copy opened by riding the buzz around Grok Bot and Muse, and a big account reposted it. Install is just pasting one sentence to your agent, and after setup it gives you an invite line to bring in teammates.
CHow you could ride this Stop building yet another agent-messaging tool and copy its playbook onto your own developer tool: put "paste this line to your agent" on the first screen of the README, end setup with a shareable invite line, write the copy around the hottest product names of the moment, and pair it with a short video that meme accounts will repost.
- Data (updated daily) · Repo created 2026-10-16 · 1,645 stars · 7 days +235
GitHub · stars Data 2026-10-17 → 2026-11-08 (23 days, 22 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
Reason Network is a Rust program open-sourced by the YC company Reason Machines: each computer runs a daemon that lets the Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and other coding agents on you and your teammates' machines see each other and message each other. Built 21 days ago, now at 1,626 stars and 143 forks (GitHub, 11-06). The same thing is being built by at least a dozen open-source projects this year, and the cross-machine ones have only two or three hundred stars. Its stars landed almost entirely in the few days after the company's two X launch videos and one big-account repost. If you want your open-source project to get stars, what to learn is how it launched and how it got users to bring in others for it; build another one with the same approach and you won't get this many stars.
A launch video with 610k views
On Oct 16 2026 (UTC) at 16:40, @reasonmachines posted a short video with this copy:
"Make your Grok Bot / Muse talk to your Claude Code / Codex or any other agent. Introducing Reason Network, a free, P2P, open-source engine. Bring your teammates in too, so your agents stop colliding when writing code."
The account had roughly 11k followers at the time; by Nov 6 the post had 618k views, 3,964 likes, and 5,212 bookmarks (public X data, 11-06). More bookmarks than likes means people saved it to install later. A site tracking AI product launches, doomers.ai, calculated that this post's bookmark rate was 7 times the median of the 2,418 launches it tracks.
Four days later, on Oct 20, the same account posted "Introducing Reason Network OSS", getting 399k views and 4,160 bookmarks. On Oct 21, Mario Nawfal (@RoundtableSpace), a big account that often reposts AI and crypto news, reposted the launch video, reaching 48k views. The star count followed this path (GitHub daily stars):
| Date | Stars | What happened |
|---|---|---|
| 10-16 | Repo created | First launch video |
| 10-17 | 110 | |
| 10-19 | 374 | Instagram and Facebook meme accounts started reposting |
| 10-20 | 482 | Second launch video, the "OSS version" |
| 10-22 | 878 | Big-account repost the day before, +313 in one day, the peak day |
| 10-24 | 1,137 | Afterglow |
| 11-06 | 1,526 (later that day 1,626) | Ten to a few dozen a day |
The last 7 days gained 211, versus 7 in the prior 437 days, so it's cooling. After the company shifted its promotion back to its own coding agent in Oct 24, Network's daily gains dropped. The fork-to-star ratio is 8.7%, normal for a new project; no sign of star-buying.
What it actually is
The first screen of the README has only one install instruction:
"Paste this line to your coding agent: Join the Reason Network: https://reasonmachines.com/network"
The agent installs it itself; a browser pops up for login with a Reason account (Google, GitHub, Apple, or email all work, free), and the agent on that computer gets connected. After setup it prints an invite line; you send it to a teammate, who pastes it to their own agent and joins the same network.
Once connected, the agent gains several tools: see who on the team is online, which repo and branch each session is in, and whether it's busy or idle; send a message to a session, with up to 10 small text files attached; and when the other agent asks for permission, a dialog pops up for you to approve or deny personally. It lists a dozen-plus supported agents: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot CLI, Grok CLI, opencode, and more; hosted web assistants like Grok Bot, Muse, and ChatGPT connect through a remote MCP address. Under the hood it uses iroh for peer-to-peer hole punching, is end-to-end encrypted, and only falls back to a relay when a direct connection fails; the relay sees only ciphertext.
One thing to know: only the engine is open source. Login requires a Reason account, and the accompanying Reason CLI is not open source and by default reports aggregated usage back every 5 minutes. At bottom, this repo is a funnel into Reason's coding agent.
Lars Talian on the team published a blog post on Nov 4 called "Our agents talked to each other for a week": over nine days the three people's agents sent 943 messages, and the share of messages he typed by hand in his own sessions dropped from 31% to 14%; his agent asked a colleague's agent for something, and three out of four times it got a reply without anyone stepping in. The opening line was "Last week, Sven and I stopped being the middlemen for our AI agents."
Where the stars came from
First, the company uses its X account as a launch machine. In the last 30 days this account posted more than ten "Introducing …" short videos, usually getting thirty to fifty thousand views, the top one reaching 700k: 10-13 for the coding agent itself, 703k; 11-02 a post quoting Musk saying "Grok Bot's service costs too much" and pushing "unlimited Grokbot", 713k. An account with 11k followers putting out a post every two or three days that gets hundreds of thousands of views looks a lot like paid X promotion or a launch agency, but there's no direct evidence (inference).
Second, the copy opens with other companies' hot new products. The first line of both launch videos names Grok Bot and Muse, then Claude Code and Codex. Those two are hosted assistants launched 2026 this year and are being talked about; "make your Grok Bot call your Claude Code to work" is a new framing a single-machine tool can't offer. The website also has a set of long-tail guide pages: "Make Grok Bot and Claude Code talk", "Connect Muse to Claude", "Make Codex and Claude Code interoperate", "Grok Bot vs. Muse vs. Claude Duet vs. Dots", targeting searches like "how do X and Y interoperate."
Third, the pain point is stated precisely. Anyone running Claude Code and Codex at the same time is the messenger between two agents themselves. The line most reposted on X is "your AI agents can now talk to each other." On Instagram and Facebook, reposts were titled "Claude Code can now message your teammate's coding agent, and it's completely free," and the AI daily The Neuron also covered it on Nov 3.
Fourth, installation is itself distribution. One sentence pasted to the agent installs it, and after setup it gives you an invite line. Users bring teammates in while installing, and each person brought in is another round of distribution.
What didn't work: No Hacker News post about it; Product Hunt only featured the company's coding agent (10-14,116 votes), not Network.
Who else is doing the same thing
| Project | Scale (11-06) | Compared with Reason Network |
|---|---|---|
| openai/codex-plugin-cc | 35K stars | Official from OpenAI, lets only Claude Code call Codex, one-way and single-machine |
| nightly-labs/openbot | 5,773 stars, +2,009 in the last 7 days | A one-person desktop workbench that runs multiple agents at once, doesn't cross teammates |
| 777genius/agent-teams-ai | 2,417 stars | One person orchestrating a team of agents |
| Dicklesworthstone/mcp_agent_mail | 2,231 stars | Mailbox-style coordination, single machine or same repo, a year earlier |
| louislva/claude-peers-mcp | 2,208 stars | Connects only multiple Claude Codes on the same machine |
| GuDaStudio/codexmcp | 2,002 stars | Claude Code calls Codex as a tool, one-way |
| fujibee/agmsg | 1,577 stars | Cross-vendor CLI agents messaging each other, single machine |
| mvanhorn/agent-tincan | 397 stars | The closest one, cross-machine, but you must install Tailscale first |
| chekusu/yobiru | 388 stars | Also goes through Tailscale: messages, files, wake-ups |
| prassanna-ravishankar/repowire | 271 stars | Cross-project, cross-machine, includes teammates; the closest idea, and nobody is pushing it |
Single-machine, single-vendor agent-to-agent messaging already has several projects at 2,000+ stars. The cross-machine, cross-teammate ones, agent-tincan, yobiru, and repowire, sit at only 200-300 stars, and on X someone replied that Reason Network is "just tincan". The difference from those is concrete: no Tailscale install, team accounts with popup approval, and the most supported agents. But they differ by 5x in stars, and that gap is distribution.
Copycats followed too: in Oct 31 someone posted a Solana on-chain agent network "inspired by @reasonmachines", which got a few hundred views.
If it were you
The short take: Don't build another "agents messaging each other" tool. The topic is crowded, and these 1,600 stars came from a YC company pushing its X account wave after wave. What's worth learning is its launch and install design.
Who it fits: People with a finished developer tool that nobody knows about, especially agent add-ons like MCP servers, CLIs, and plugins. You don't lack features. You lack distribution.
Who it doesn't fit: Anyone who wants to build a cross-machine agent network and expects better features to earn stars: repowire came out ten months earlier with nearly the same idea, and has 271 stars. It also doesn't fit people who can't post consistently. Its stars came from two videos and one repost, and they'll cool off once the company stops pushing.
How to do it:
- Make the first screen of the README a single line, "paste this to your agent", so the agent becomes the installer and users don't have to read docs and type commands.
- Leave an invite hook in the product: after install, print a line users can forward directly. This trick works for any tool used by multiple people.
- Open the copy with the hottest product name of the moment (it used Grok Bot and Muse) and say "let A and B talk to each other". That's easier to pass on than describing your own feature.
- Build a few landing pages like "how A and B interoperate" and "A vs B vs C" to capture long-tail search.
How it got users: Copy its habit of posting a short "Introducing" video under 30 seconds every two or three days, showing two agents talking on screen. Without a company account, borrow reach: AI tool roundup accounts, Chinese AI creators, and Instagram GitHub-repost accounts that run "comment for the link" posts. They need material, so DM them the video.
How long the window lasts: The novelty of "have Grok Bot get Claude Code to do work" rides on the hosted-assistant trend, so probably one or two more months (inference). The big vendors are all adding multi-agent collaboration to their own agents, and single-machine messaging will likely be absorbed by built-in features.
What would show you're wrong: If similar projects nobody is promoting, like agent-tincan and repowire, grow by a thousand stars or more over the next month, that means demand for cross-teammate agent networks is real, and the gap worth filling is what it does poorly: no accounts needed, self-hosting, and a version that doesn't report usage. Conversely, if Reason Network's daily star gains drop to single digits after the company stops posting, that confirms the stars were bought with distribution, not carried by the topic itself.
Research notes: competitor table, acquisition evidence, full research report
- Competitors
Name Where Launched Scale How it differs from this one openai/codex-plugin-cc Big-company features 2026-03-30 34,913 stars Claude Code can call Codex only; one-way, single machine. Reason works across people and machines, two-way, and also connects hosted assistants. nightly-labs/openbot Open source 2026-08-12 5,773 stars, +2,009 in the last 7 days A personal local desktop workspace, not a cross-teammate network. Dicklesworthstone/mcp_agent_mail Open source 2025-10-23 2,231 stars (later rewritten in Rust) Mailbox-style coordination, mainly single machine or same repo. louislva/claude-peers-mcp Open source 2026-03-21 2,208 stars Connects only multiple Claude Codes on the same machine GuDaStudio/codexmcp Open source 2025-11-05 2,002 stars Claude Code treats Codex as a tool call; one-way. fujibee/agmsg Open source 2026-04-02 1,577 stars Cross-vendor CLI agent messaging, single machine, no team or identity system. mvanhorn/agent-tincan Open source 2026-09-22 397 stars Also cross-machine, but requires Tailscale first, no team accounts, and no company push. chekusu/yobiru Open source 2026-10-10 388 stars Also uses Tailscale. prassanna-ravishankar/repowire Open source 2025-12-08 271 stars Closest in philosophy (cross-project, cross-machine, with teammates), but no distribution. Claude Code subagents / agent teams Big-company features Built in Collaboration only within one vendor, inside one session tree. - Where users come from
- Verified Company X account posting videos frequently: @reasonmachines (about 11k followers) 10-16 launch post got 618k views, 3,964 likes, about 5K bookmarks; 10-20 OSS post got 399k views. The star curve jumped after these two posts (X live pull, doomers.ai).
- Verified Big-account repost: 0 repost by xMarioNawfal (@RoundtableSpace) 10-21, 48k views; the repo gained +313 in a single day the next day. Whether it was paid is unverified.
- Inference Paid promotion or a posting agency: an account with 11k followers posts every two or three days, getting 400k–700k views each time. Suspected ad buying, with no direct evidence.
- Verified Repost accounts and news roundups: Instagram and Facebook repost videos; covered by The Neuron 11-03 daily newsletter, hotrepo.ai, and vibehacker.
- Verified In-product viral invite: install means pasting "Join the Reason Network: <link>" to your agent, and after install it prints an invite message for teammates (README).
- Verified SEO long-tail landing pages: reasonmachines.com has guides like "Grok Bot talk to Claude Code", "Codex and Claude Code interoperate", and "Grok Bot vs Muse vs Claude Duet vs Dots".
- Verified riding a platform controversy: the copy leads with Grok Bot and Muse; the 11-02 post quotes Musk on "Grok Bot costs too much to serve," 713K views
- Inference HN / Product Hunt: our HN database has no related posts; PH shows only 10-14 votes for Reason (coding agent) 116.
Why reason-machines/reason-network took off
Channel: GitHub (Rust, MIT/Apache-2.0). Repo created 2026-10-16; as of 2026-11-06 it had 1,526 stars and 133 forks (our GitHub database; the live GitHub API value that day was 1,625 stars / 143 forks). Research date 2026-11-06.
One line
Reason Network is the open-source P2P messaging engine from YC company Reason Machines. Each computer runs a small daemon (built on iroh, end-to-end encrypted), letting Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and other sessions on your and your teammates' machines, plus hosted assistants like Grok Bot, Muse, and ChatGPT, see each other and message each other. Its stars didn't grow out of the open-source community. They were poured in by the company's X account, round after round of "Introducing …" videos (400k–600k views per post). The repo itself is the acquisition entry point for Reason's coding agent.
1. Data: how the stars grew
Source: our GitHub database repo_day (data card).
| Date | stars | Daily adds | what happened |
|---|---|---|---|
| Repo created 10-16 | – | – | That day (UTC) @reasonmachines posted the first Reason Network launch video. |
| 10-17 | 110 | – | Launch post: 608k views, 3,964 likes, about 5K bookmarks (doomers.ai as of 10-31). |
| 10-19 | 374 | +198 | The launch post was reposted by Instagram / Facebook repost accounts (several visible in search). |
| 10-22 | 878 | +313 (single-day high) | 10-20 second launch, "Introducing Reason Network OSS", 399k views; 10-21 0 repost by xMarioNawfal (@RoundtableSpace), 48k views. |
| 10-24 | 1,137 | (two days) +259 | Afterglow |
| 10-25 → 11-06 | 1,178 → 1,526 | Ten to a few dozen a day | The company kept posting a Reason product video every 2–3 days, mentioning Network along the way. |
- In the last 7 days +211, and in the first 7 days +437; it has cooled (data card). Fork-to-star ratio is about 8.7%, normal for a new repo. The
suspectlist in the repo is empty, with no sign of star manipulation. - It didn't make GitHub trending. The repo was under 60 days old, and trending doesn't count repos that young, so this point means nothing.
2. Competitors: who else does the same thing
"Let multiple coding agents message each other" is a crowded open-source category as of 2026. The main projects our GitHub database surfaced by searching repo descriptions (star counts are the 2026-11-06 values in our database):
| Name | Form | Launched | Scale | How it differs from Reason Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| openai/codex-plugin-cc | Official big-vendor plugins | 2026-03-30 | 34,913 stars | Only does one direction, Claude Code calling Codex, on a single machine. Reason's own comparison page also lists it as a reference point. |
| nightly-labs/openbot | Open-source desktop workspaces | 2026-08-12 | 5,773 stars, +2,009 in the last 7 days | Runs Codex, Claude, and Grok together on the local desktop. It's a "one-person workspace", not a cross-person, cross-machine network. |
| Dicklesworthstone/mcp_agent_mail | Open source MCP servers | 2025-10-23 | 2,231 stars (later rewritten in Rust) | Mailbox-style coordination, mainly single machine or same repo, a year earlier. |
| louislva/claude-peers-mcp | Open source MCP servers | 2026-03-21 | 2,208 stars | Connects only multiple Claude Codes on the same machine |
| GuDaStudio/codexmcp | Open source MCP servers | 2025-11-05 | 2,002 stars | Claude Code treats Codex as a tool call; one-way. |
| fujibee/agmsg | Open source CLI | 2026-04-02 | 1,577 stars | Cross-vendor CLI agents messaging each other, single machine |
| ShawnPana/smux | tmux configs | 2026-02-28 | 1,532 stars | Read and write the other side's terminal through tmux. |
| 777genius/agent-teams-ai | Open source | 2026-02-21 | 2,417 stars | One person orchestrating an agent team. |
| mvanhorn/agent-tincan | Open source | 2026-09-22 | 397 stars | The closest one: cross-machine, but via Tailscale. On X someone said Reason Network is "like agent tincan". |
| chekusu/yobiru | Open source | 2026-10-10 | 388 stars | Also uses Tailscale; messages, files, wake-ups. |
| prassanna-ravishankar/repowire | Open source | 2025-12-08 | 271 stars | Cross-project, cross-machine, with teammates. The philosophy is closest, but it didn't take off. |
| raysonmeng/agent-bridge, xhluca/agent-talk, mikusnuz/agent-link-mcp, and others | Open source | 2026 | Hundreds of stars | Local bridging |
| Claude Code's built-in subagents / agent teams | Big-company features | – | – | Same vendor, same session tree |
Verdict: the feature itself isn't new. Several single-machine, single-vendor tools in the same space already have 2,000+ stars. The cross-machine ones (agent-tincan, yobiru, repowire) each have only a few hundred. Reason Network hit 1,500 stars in under 3 weeks not because it built it first.
3. Growth tactics: where users come from
- The company's X account posting videos at high frequency (confirmed, main driver). @reasonmachines (about 11k followers when posted) published 10+ "Introducing …" short videos in the last 30 days, each getting 3–70k to 700k views (pulled live from X 2026-11-06):
- 10-13 Reason (coding agent) 703k views
- 10-15 "world's first multiplayer Coding Agent" 74k
- 10-16 Reason Network launch post: 618k views, 3,964 likes, 319 reposts
- 10-20 Reason Network OSS: 399k views, 2,631 likes
- 10-24 / 10-26 / 10-27 / 11-02 / 11-04 / 11-05 Reason product posts, 195k / 39k / 124k / 713k / 25k / 78k
- Launch-post data collected by doomers.ai: views run about 55× the follower count, bookmark rate 84 per 10,000, and 7× the median of the 2,418 launches it tracks. That suggests a high share of viewers planned to come back and install it.
- An account with 11k followers that lands a 400k–700k-view post every two or three days has likely used paid X promotion or a launch agency (doomers.ai and similar firms offer finding creators to publicize AI companies on X). No direct evidence found, unverified.
- Big-account repost (confirmed): 0 xMarioNawfal (@RoundtableSpace) 10-21 reposted it with the launch video, 48k views. The next day (10-22) was the repo's biggest single day of star growth (+313). This account often takes paid promotion; whether this one was paid is unverified.
- Repost and aggregator accounts (confirmed): several reposts of "Claude Code can message your teammates' coding agents now, and it's completely free" on Instagram and Facebook; also covered by The Neuron 11-03 daily digest, hotrepo.ai, and vibehacker.com.
- Viral install via "let your agent install it" (confirmed, product design): the first step in the README and on the site is "paste this line to your agent: Join the Reason Network: reasonmachines.com/network". After install it prints an invite message asking the user to paste the same line to their own agent. Every user brings a team along, so one invite link is one round of spread.
- SEO landing pages (confirmed): the site has long-tail guides such as "Make Grok Bot talk to Claude Code", "Connect Muse to Claude", "Make Codex and Claude Code talk to each other", and "Grok Bot vs Muse vs Claude Duet vs Dots", targeting searches for how X and Y interoperate.
- Riding platform news (confirmed): the copy consistently puts Grok Bot and Muse, hosted assistants launched 2026 years ago, ahead of Claude Code and Codex. One 11-02 post directly quoted Musk's "Grok Bot costs too much to serve" tweet and promoted "unlimited Grokbot", getting 710k views.
- Original author's endorsement + absorbed existing project (confirmed): The engine was originally called tincan, by Lars Talian (who builds infrastructure for Reason Machines). 10-21 published a blog post, "Our agents talked to each other for a week": over 9 days and 943 messages, the share of messages typed by hand dropped from 31% to 14%, giving the product a real-world use case.
- HN / Product Hunt:没起作用。我们的 HN 库里没有 Reason Network 的帖;Product Hunt 只有 10-14 Reason(编码 agent)那一条,116 票,featured。
4. Why it took off
- Behind it is a funded company going all-in on visibility: Reason Machines, a YC company (its X bio says YC F26; PitchBook records 500k USD raised; the YC page lists 2 employees). Network is just one of more than a dozen things it shipped in 3 weeks. The open-source engine is a funnel for the closed-source Reason CLI and the Reason coding agent (installing the engine requires logging in with a Reason account; the CLI is not open source and by default reports aggregated usage every 5 minutes).
- The launch hit a clear pain point: "People running Claude Code and Codex at the same time are human routers." The most-reposted line on X was "Your AI agents can now talk to each other." The bookmark rate was 7× the median, showing people wanted to install it.
- Launch cadence and timing: two launch posts (10-16, 10-20) and one big-account repost lined up with three jumps in the star curve. Once the company shifted its promotion back to the Reason agent itself (after 10-24), daily gains fell to the low tens or dozens.
- Low install friction: paste one line to your agent and it's installed. It supports 11+ agents and hosted assistants, so most people who see the launch can connect the tools they already use.
5. Differentiation, and whether that's why it took off
Compared with similar tools, there are three real differences:
- Cross-person, not just cross-machine: the network is organized by team, identity is verified with a Reason account signature, and you can see which repo, branch, and session each teammate is in and whether it's busy or idle. There's also an
ask_userapproval popup (when a teammate's agent asks for permission, you approve it yourself). Most similar tools are single-machine or one person across several machines. - P2P, end-to-end encrypted, no Tailscale needed: built on iroh hole punching, falling back to a relay only when that fails. The relay sees only ciphertext, and teams can self-host it. agent-tincan and yobiru both require installing Tailscale first.
- Widest coverage, including hosted assistants: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot CLI, opencode, pi, Antigravity, ZCode, and more, plus Grok Bot / Muse / ChatGPT (connected via remote MCP). Each uses a different message-delivery method (hook push, idle wake-up, a note in the tool result about new messages).
These differences let the launch say something fresh, like "your Grok Bot can get your Claude Code to do the work," and make "install in one line" credible. But the main reason it took off is distribution, not differentiation: agent-tincan and repowire are also cross-machine and have only a few hundred stars, while nearly all of Reason Network's stars landed in the days after the company's two launch posts and one big-account repost, and cooled once the company stopped pushing. Differentiation gave the launch posts something to talk about and kept the bookmark rate high.
6. Visibility and copycats
- Visibility: spreading within a small circle. Exposure on X's AI developer circle was large (the two launch posts total about 1M views, plus a big-account repost), and there were repost accounts and daily digests. But there was no mainstream tech press coverage, nothing on HN, the product is free, and there's no public revenue.
- Copycats: X user @0rdlibrary 10-31 posted a Solana on-chain agent network "inspired by @reasonmachines" (a single Rust binary
santhat is simultaneously a CLI, daemon and MCP server, with an x402 mailbox). The post got only a few hundred views. Around the same time, bigger "multi-agent workbench" projects like openbot were also growing, but they were not copying it.
7. What others can learn
- "Paste this line to your agent" install + an invite message printed after install: the agent acts as the installer, and the invite becomes a single line users can forward as-is.
- Using open-source infrastructure to acquire users for a closed product: open-sourcing the engine trades for stars and trust, while login, the CLI, the hosted relay, and the agent stay in-house, and data flows back.
- High-frequency short video posts from a small account: one "Introducing" video under 30 seconds every 2–3 days, opening the copy with the hot hosted-assistant names (Grok Bot, Muse) to ride their search traffic and conversation.
- Comparison-style SEO landing pages: "How X and Y talk to each other", "A vs B vs C".
8. Still unclear
- Whether the 400k–700k-view launch posts used paid promotion or an agency is unverified.
- Whether the 0xMarioNawfal repost was paid is unverified.
- Real install base and active network count: the engine reports only aggregated usage to Reason, so outsiders can't see it. 7 watchers and 12 open issues suggest few heavy users.
- Whether the open source release attracted outside contributors (the GitHub API was rate-limited that day, so the contributor list could not be pulled).
- How many stars the original larstalian/tincan repo has now, and whether those stars moved over (no such row in our database), unverified.
Sources
- Data card / our GitHub database repo_profile, repo_day (2026-11-06)
- README:github.com/reason-machines/reason-network
- Site: reasonmachines.com/network; comparison page reasonmachines.com/guides/codex-claude-code-talk
- Launch post: x.com/reasonmachines/status/2111135100142518430; OSS post: x.com/reasonmachines/status/2112539998352523575 (pulled live from X 2026-11-06)
- doomers.ai launch analysis: doomers.ai/launches/reason-machines-network
- 0 xMarioNawfal repost: x.com/RoundtableSpace/status/2112940726707229033
- "it is tincan!" reply: x.com/trevin/status/2112567571061064115
- Lars Talian blog: larstalian.com/we-asked-our-agents/
- YC page: www.ycombinator.com/companies/reason-machines; PitchBook: pitchbook.com/profiles/company/1367611-21
- Copycat: x.com/0rdlibrary/status/2116312003035742293
- The Neuron 2026-11-03 daily digest: www.theneuron.ai/digest/everything-that-happened-in-ai-today…
- Our HN database and Product Hunt database (search finds no Reason Network entry; PH has 2026-10-14 Reason with 116 votes)