Show HN: We started building an AI dev tool but it turned into a Sims-style game
Hi HN! We’re Max and Peyton from The Interface ( https://www.theinterface.com/ ). We started out building an AI agent dev tool, but somewhere along the way it turned into Sims for AI agents. Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRPnX_f2V_c . The original idea was simple: make it easy to create AI agents. We started with Jupyter Notebooks, where each cell could be callable by MCP—so agents could turn them into tools for themselves. It worked well enough that the system became self-improving, churning out content, and acting like a co-pilot that helped you build new agents. But when we stepped back, what we had was these endless walls of text. And even though it worked, honestly, it was just boring. We were also convinced that it would be swallowed up by the next model’s capabilities. We wanted to build something else—something that made AI less of a bl
Why it failed
Hi HN! We’re Max and Peyton from The Interface ( https://www.theinterface.com/ ). We started out building an AI agent dev tool, but somewhere along the way it turned into Sims for AI agents. Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRPnX_f2V_c . T
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- maxraven
- Ended
- 2025
- Source
- hackernews