# Nimbalyst

Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/nimbalyst/

5 people recommended Nimbalyst in Hacker News comments, 1 had mixed feelings and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 7 of 12 months, in 9 threads. It does not meet the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Free, local visual workspace for running and tracking multiple Claude Code and Codex sessions, with red/green diffs. Caveat: some gaps, and one critic disputes its open-source status.

Summary written by Claude from 13 comments. It was written before the November 2026 recount, and 11 of those comments still count.

## Why people recommend it

- Free, local, open-source (3 comments in the sample): "Consider Nimbalyst, its a free visual workspace for Claude Code and Codex" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47857642)) "Nimbalyst is in Beta, local, and free. We would love your feedback." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46320321)) "Multi-sessions, visual editing, open-source" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49171064))
- Red/green diffs of file changes (2 comments in the sample): "it tracks every file change for you and gives you red/green diffs for your session" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47034852)) "giving red/green diffs on RENDERED markdown files which nobody else has" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46437745))
- Manages multiple agents and sessions (2 comments in the sample): "Nimbalyst does a pretty good job. Some gaps but I can manage multiple agents across multiple projects well enough." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48717781)) "built from scratch to be a proper agent manager" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47339373))
- Visual Kanban board and editors (1 comment in the sample): "It features a visual Kanban board for parallel sessions, visual editors, and it is also an iOS companion app." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48697484))

## What people warn about

- Open-source claim disputed (1 comment in the sample): "This is not an open source project." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46048457))

## The badge

A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged.

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Nimbalyst", https://hackerapproved.com/p/nimbalyst/ (5 recommend, 1 mixed, 1 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026).

Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.