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Shares rank 4 of 5 AI agent platforms by recommenders

Gives teams shared rooms with per-person permissions and AWS deployment.

Gives teams shared rooms with per-person permissions and AWS deployment.

7 people gave an opinion

recommend it
5
criticize it
2
approval share
71%
Each figure is one person. RecommendsCriticizes

Recommended in 2 of 13 months

  1. November 2025: not recommended
  2. December 2025: not recommended
  3. January 2026: not recommended
  4. February 2026: not recommended
  5. March 2026: not recommended
  6. April 2026: not recommended
  7. May 2026: not recommended
  8. June 2026: not recommended
  9. July 2026: recommended
  10. August 2026: recommended
  11. September 2026: not recommended
  12. October 2026: not recommended
  13. November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)

Why it doesn’t carry the badge

  • 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
  • 2.5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
  • Recommended in 2 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.

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What people said

All 7 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.

“Seems a bit odd to have a quota on that.”

CriticizesComment from 12 Oct 2026 in “Launch HN: Agent37 (YC F26) – Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agents”

“I found a tweet about a public instance of it where I could try out having it code something agentically”

RecommendsComment from 5 Aug 2026 in “Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work”

“thanks for reminding me about qm, it has some cool features”

RecommendsComment from 3 Aug 2026 in “Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork”

“deploying QM into customer AWS accounts (official Terraform path)”

RecommendsComment from 2 Aug 2026 in “qm”

“I love the concept to use different harness frameworks in qm but a true multiplayer harness needs to support other agents and any MCP clients”

MixedComment from 1 Aug 2026 in “qm”

“the ui sucks and is not it”

CriticizesComment from 31 Jul 2026 in “qm”

“QM's per-person scopes plus shared rooms is a sane answer for a company-wide assistant.”

RecommendsComment from 31 Jul 2026 in “qm”

Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.