Orbital

Jun 2026 - Present
Open Source

Built and released Orbital, an open-source Windows desktop app for running many AI coding agents side by side, so a single developer can direct several streams of work at once and always see which agent needs attention.

AI
CI/CD
Electron
GitHub
Open Source
Productivity
React
Testing
Tools
TypeScript

Project Details

  • Designed the product around one principle: run the developer's real coding agent unchanged rather than wrapping or replacing it, so nothing they already rely on is lost and no new usage costs are introduced.
  • Gave every stream of work its own isolated copy of the codebase, its own terminals, and its own browser previews, so agents working in parallel never interfere with each other and layouts survive restarts.
  • Built a live status system that reports when each agent is working, finished, or waiting on the developer, with alerts that make the blocked one obvious without hunting through windows.
  • Shipped a command-line companion that lets agents report their own status, file follow-up work, and register running services, so they can participate in the workflow without manual setup.
  • Added a lightweight task tracker with a cross-project board, where any task can be launched straight into a fresh workspace, plus a built-in editor for reviewing changes without leaving the app.
  • Automated the entire release process so every merge to the main branch produces a versioned build, changelog, and in-app update, and published a documentation site alongside it.
  • Delivered more than 30 releases in the first three months as an actively maintained open-source project.