# Paradev (formerly Superset)

Aiolum story: https://aiolum.com/story/paradev/ · added 2026-11-12 · updated 2026-11-12

**In short.** Paradev (formerly Superset) (Workspace for running many coding agents in parallel, United States): 16.2K GitHub stars, November 2026. Evidence grade E: no revenue figure was checked. Team: 3 co-founders at the start in November 2025; 4 people in November 2026. Launched December 2025; still running.

Workspace for running many coding agents in parallel · United States · AI-native · team of 2 to 10 · still running · group: Developer tools and coding agents

- Outcome: 16.2K GitHub stars, November 2026 (evidence grade of the headline number: E; no revenue figure)
- Launch: December 2025; months from launch to the outcome: 11
- Team: 3 co-founders at the start in November 2025; 4 people in November 2026
- Outside funding: US$11.5M seed led by Union Square Ventures, announced 26 October 2026; Y Combinator Spring 2026
- Main factor: Timing
- Meters, 1 to 4: evidence strength 1, copyable pattern 2, capital needed 2
- Tags: AI-native, Small team, Funded, Running, B2B, Developer tools

Links:

- Visit paradev.com: https://paradev.com/
- App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6788926383

**The product.** A desktop app, with a command-line tool and an iPhone app, for running many AI coding agents side by side. Each task gets its own copy of the code in a Git branch. The developer watches the agents, reviews their changes and merges them from one window.

**Why it worked.** Paradev started in November 2025, when coding agents were new and developers began to run several at once. The founders wrote on 26 October 2026 that they saw coding change quickly with agents and built the first version at a hackathon. They launched it as an open-source app, and its public code has since passed 16,000 stars on GitHub.

Evidence grades: A = disclosed by a public company, a filing or a payment processor, or verified by one; B = two or more independent reports agree, or a journalist confirmed it; C = a founder claim that no one else verified; D = reported, not verified: one founder claim or a third-party estimate with no second source; E = no revenue figure found, so the headline is a non-money fact and the other facts carry their own grades; calc = computed on this page from graded facts.

## Summary

Paradev, called Superset until 26 October 2026, is a workspace for coding agents, programs that write and change code on a developer's request. Each task runs in its own Git worktree, a separate working copy of the code on its own branch. Paradev does not provide the model. The developer brings Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode or another command-line agent and pays that provider.

Y Combinator lists Kiet Ho, Satya Patel and Avi Peltz as the founders, with a team of four. The company's about page says the app began as a hackathon project in November 2025 and launched in December 2025. On 26 October 2026 the company and Union Square Ventures both wrote that the firm led a US$11.5 million seed round. The company's pricing page lists a free plan and paid plans from US$16 to US$200 a month per user.

No revenue figure was found, so the story is grade E. The headline is the star count that GitHub showed on 12 November 2026. The paying customers are the company's own statement. The user counts that the company gives differ from page to page and are not verified.

## Why did Paradev (formerly Superset) work?

### It shipped when coding agents were new and needed a place to run

The founders wrote on 26 October 2026 that coding was changing fast with agents, so they built the first version at a hackathon. Union Square Ventures wrote that the question had moved from whether agents can do the work to how to manage a team of them.

### It works with any command-line agent that the customer already pays for

The home page says Paradev does not proxy model calls. The customer uses existing Claude Code, Codex or OpenCode accounts and keys. The company therefore carries no model cost, and the customer can switch agents without changing the workspace.

### It gave the code away and charges for remote access and cloud hours

The code is public, and the Free plan runs on the customer's own machine. The paid plans add remote access, automations, mobile and cloud workspaces. The pricing page lists these by seat, with extra cloud hours sold by use.

## How it was built

These details come from the company's own pages, its repository and its blog. They are grade C.

- The desktop app is built with Electron. The company's blog lists a post on keeping terminal sessions alive across Electron restarts. A news brief reports an Electron upgrade.
- The repository holds a TypeScript SDK. Its readme asks for Bun to build from source.
- Every agent task runs in its own Git worktree and branch, so ten agents can work on ten branches at once.
- Paradev works with any command-line agent. The customer brings the agent account or key, and model calls go straight to the provider.
- The company uses PostHog for usage analytics, according to its privacy policy.
- The code moved from Elastic License 2.0 to MIT on 4 November 2026, so a team can now run it on its own servers.

Sources: [16, 8, 9, 1, 12, 13]

## Who tried this before Paradev (formerly Superset), and why did they fail?

Four companies in our database of failed startups built developer tools that lived next to the tools developers already used. The values below are from that database and are not independently verified.

The failed startups come from our database of dead startups, retold here in our own words; Its entries are AI-assisted summaries of public sources, so they carry no evidence grade.

### Fig (2020 to 2024; funding US$2.4M; cause: Monetization)

- Promise: Autocomplete and visual command builders inside the terminal.
- Why it died: Developers valued it but could do the same with free open-source tools and shell scripts, so few paid.
- Record: 

### Kite (2014 to 2024; funding US$21.0M; cause: Timing)

- Promise: AI code completion inside the editors developers already used.
- Why it died: The record says it came about seven years before the market for AI coding tools opened. Free tools and GitHub Copilot then dominated.
- Record: 

### Nitrous.io (2012 to 2016; funding US$8.0M; cause: Competition)

- Promise: A cloud development environment that removed local setup.
- Why it died: The record says it was squeezed between AWS and other platforms that owned the source code and the deployment.
- Record: 

### CodeSee (2020 to 2024; funding US$10.0M; cause: Monetization)

- Promise: Automatic maps of a codebase to speed up onboarding and refactoring.
- Why it died: Free users did not convert to paid customers. It could not show engineering leaders a return that justified the budget.
- Record: 

## What changed

Each of the four built a tool beside the developer's main tools and could not turn use into payment. The record for Fig says many developers could copy the value with free tools. The record for Kite says the market opened years after it began. The record for Nitrous.io says larger platforms owned the surrounding workflow.

Paradev differs in three ways that its pages show. It is aimed at a new kind of work, running many coding agents, that did not exist in 2020. It charges only for remote access, automations and cloud hours, and it carries no model cost. It also has a funded team of four. Whether that is enough is not shown, because no revenue figure was found.

## Can one person copy Paradev (formerly Superset) now?

**Verdict: The structure, partly. The funding and the timing were not copyable.**

A small team that built a free, open-source workspace around the agents that developers already pay for could copy the structure. The company says it launched within weeks of its first hackathon version. The evidence for paid use is thin: only a price list and the company's own statement that customers pay.

1. Build around the agents and accounts that customers already have, so the model is never your cost.
2. Publish the code and a free plan, and sell remote access, automations and cloud hours.
3. Launch as soon as the first version works, and ship changes every week.

**What is still open.** The next layer that agents need: review, scheduling, permissions, and shared pages that teams can comment on.

## How much revenue does Paradev (formerly Superset) make? The numbers, graded

A company started by three co-founders in November 2025, with a public price list and no revenue figure

| Fact | Value | Grade | Note | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company founded | November 2025, as Superset | C | The about page says Paradev started as a hackathon project in November 2025. Y Combinator lists the year as 2026. The earliest Wayback copy of superset.sh, from 3 November 2025, shows a waitlist page. The legal registration date was not found. | [3, 15, 18] |
| Earlier name | Superset, until 26 October 2026 | C | The company's post says the name changed on 26 October 2026 and that only the name, logo, website and email domain changed. The legal entity on the terms is Superset Inc. | [5, 4, 11] |
| Founders and team | 3 co-founders; 4 people in 2026 | C | Y Combinator lists the three founders and a team of four. The about page names a fourth person as a founding engineer. It also says 3 ex-YC CTOs. | [15, 3] |
| Funding | US$11.5 million seed | C | Union Square Ventures wrote on 26 October 2026 that it led the round. The company's about page lists Y Combinator and other funds among the backers. | [6, 3] |
| GitHub stars | 16.2K on 12 November 2026 | C | The repository page shows 16.2K stars and 1.5K forks. The about page says the code passed 10,000 stars in April 2026. | [9, 3] |
| Prices | Free; US$16 to US$20, US$54 to US$60 and US$200 a month per user | C | The company's pricing page, read on 12 November 2026. Enterprise has a custom price and annual billing only. | [2] |
| How a plan is bought | Get Pro, Get Team and Get Ultra buttons; billing settings in the app | C | The pricing FAQ says paid plans are billed per active seat. It says a customer can upgrade, downgrade or cancel in the billing settings. | [2] |
| Paying customers | Stated by the company, no number | C | The company's blog of 4 November 2026 answers the question about paying customers and says nothing changes for their plan. | [13] |
| Users the company claims | Tens of thousands; 100,000+; hundreds of thousands | C | The Y Combinator listing says tens of thousands. The about page says 100,000+ developers. The company's post of 26 October 2026 says hundreds of thousands. | [15, 3, 4] |
| Licence | Elastic License 2.0 until 4 November 2026; MIT since | C | The company's post of 4 November 2026 says the earlier licence limited how the code could be used. | [13] |
| iPhone app | Free; 30 ratings, average 5.0; age 16+ | C | The App Store page, read on 12 November 2026. The company's blog says the app needs the Pro plan. The terms say users must be 16. | [10, 5, 11] |
| Customers the company names | Engineers at Wix, DoorDash and Netflix | C | The company's launch post on the Y Combinator listing says engineers there use the product daily. No independent source was found. | [15] |

How to read this table. Grade C means the company, an investor, a directory or a platform page states the value. No value is grade A or B, and no value was calculated on this page.

## Pricing

Paradev prices read from the company's pricing page on 12 November 2026 (grade C)

| Plan | Per month, billed yearly (US$) | Per month, billed monthly (US$) | Limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | 0 | 0 | 1 user; local workspaces, desktop app and command-line tool; no card needed |
| Pro | 16 | 20 | Adds remote access, automations, Linear and Slack integrations and the mobile app |
| Team | 54 | 60 | Adds cloud workspaces, 150 hours per seat each month |
| Ultra |  | 200 | Billed monthly; cloud workspaces, 500 hours per seat each month |
| Enterprise | custom |  | Annual billing only; single sign-on, audit logs, uptime agreement |

Prices are per user. The Free plan has one user and runs local workspaces only. Team and Ultra add cloud workspaces with a monthly pool of hours, and extra hours cost US$0.06 per GB-hour. The page says the customer also pays the model providers.

## When did Paradev (formerly Superset) launch, and how did it grow? Timeline

From a hackathon project in November 2025 to a funded company with paid plans in November 2026.

- **November 2025** (grade C [3, 4]): The three co-founders build the first version at the Vibecon hackathon, as the company's about page describes it.
- **December 2025** (grade C [3, 4]): The about page says the app launches as an open-source app for running coding agents in parallel. The company's blog of 26 October 2026 says January.
- **February to March 2026** (grade C [3]): The about page lists first place of the day on Product Hunt in February and entry to Y Combinator in March.
- **April 2026** (grade C [3]): The about page says version 2.0 opens in beta and the code passes 10,000 stars on GitHub.
- **26 October 2026** (grade C [4, 5, 6]): Superset becomes Paradev. The company and Union Square Ventures both announce the US$11.5 million seed round on the same day.
- **4 November 2026** (grade C [13]): The company changes the licence of the code from Elastic License 2.0 to MIT.

## What could go wrong for Paradev (formerly Superset)?

- **What is not verified.** No revenue figure was found. A reader could look for a payment-processor profile, a press piece with a revenue figure or an interview. The US$11.5 million seed rests on the company's post and the Union Square Ventures post. Agentic Weekly wrote that it found no filing confirming the funding or the usage figures.
- **Trust signals on the home page.** The home page shows a wall of logos under "Trusted by builders from" and eleven posts that link to X. No source confirms the logos, and one logo belongs to the company of a backer. The posts on X could not be opened, and two give a first name only. One post is from the chief executive of a company that the Paradev product chief co-founded. Two more are from chief technology officers whom the about page lists as backers. The pages also show a "SOC 2 Type II compliant" badge. The pricing FAQ says an independent auditor completed the audit, and the report was not read. The user counts also differ, as the facts table shows.
- **Dates and wording differ between pages.** The about page gives December 2025 for the launch, and the company's blog gives January. The about page dates the seed to July 2026, and the announcements are dated 26 October 2026. The product was called open source before 4 November 2026, when the licence was Elastic License 2.0. The company's FAQ says it is unrelated to Apache Superset.
- **Paying customers and the role of AI.** No source states that a particular customer has paid. The company says paying customers exist, and the pricing page has a working path to buy. Paradev is a workspace around other companies' coding agents and provides no model of its own.

## Sources

1. Paradev home page — https://paradev.com/ (grade C). Read in full on 12 November 2026. Source for what the product does, the testimonials, the logo wall, the FAQ and the licence statement.
2. Paradev pricing page — https://paradev.com/pricing (grade C). Read in full on 12 November 2026. Source for the plans, the prices, the cloud hours and the billing FAQ.
3. Paradev about page — https://paradev.com/team (grade C). Read in full on 12 November 2026. The address /about redirects here. Source for the start, the founders, the timeline and the backers.
4. Paradev blog, 26 October 2026: Superset is now Paradev. Also, we raised an $11.5M seed — https://paradev.com/blog/superset-is-now-paradev (grade C). Read in full on 12 November 2026. Source for the origin, the reason for the new name, the seed round and the usage claims.
5. Paradev blog, 12 October 2026, updated 27 October 2026: Superset has a new name: Paradev — https://paradev.com/blog/a-new-name (grade C). Read in full on 12 November 2026. Source for the date of the name change and what stayed the same.
6. Union Square Ventures, 26 October 2026: Paradev — https://www.usv.com/writing/paradev (grade C). Read in full on 12 November 2026. The investor's own post. Source for the seed round led by the firm and the reason it invested.
7. Automater News, 26 October 2026: Superset Rebrands to Paradev, Raises $11.5M — https://automater.ai/news/paradev-superset-rebrand-11-5m-seed-parallel-coding-agents/ (grade C). Read in full on 12 November 2026. A news site that retells the company's post. Used for the team of four from the Y Combinator page and the licence at that time.
8. Agentic Weekly, 26 October 2026: Superset is now Paradev, desktop v2.0.0 and an $11.5M seed — https://theagenticweekly.com/news/superset-renamed-paradev-desktop-2-0-seed (grade C). Read in full on 12 November 2026. A news brief based on the company's post. It says it found no filing that confirms the funding or the usage figures.
9. GitHub repository paradevai/paradev — https://github.com/paradevai/paradev (grade C). Read the repository page on 12 November 2026. Source for the stars, the forks, the MIT licence and the Bun requirement.
10. App Store: Paradev (formerly Superset), iPhone and iPad app — https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6788926383 (grade C). Read in full on 12 November 2026. Source for the rating count, the average, the age rating and the app's description.
11. Paradev terms of service, last updated 11 December 2025 — https://paradev.com/terms (grade C). Read in full on 12 November 2026. Source for the name of the legal entity and the age limit of 16.
12. Paradev privacy policy — https://paradev.com/privacy (grade C). Read the section on usage data on 12 November 2026. Names PostHog as an example of an analytics provider.
13. Paradev blog, 4 November 2026: Paradev is now open source under the MIT license — https://paradev.com/blog/paradev-is-now-mit (grade C). Read in full on 12 November 2026. Source for the licence change and the answer about paying customers.
14. Paradev careers page and press page — https://paradev.com/careers (grade C). Read in full on 12 November 2026. The careers page repeats the team of four and 100,000+ developers. The press page lists the coverage.
15. Y Combinator company page: Paradev (formerly Superset) — https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/paradev (grade C). Read in full on 12 November 2026. Source for the founders, the batch, the year 2026, the team and the claim of tens of thousands of engineers.
16. Paradev blog index — https://paradev.com/blog (grade C). Read in full on 12 November 2026. Source for the post titles, among them the post on terminal sessions and Electron.
17. Database of failed startups, local export — /method/#dead (grade C). Record pages read on the website on 12 November 2026. AI-written summaries, not independently verified. Source for the failed predecessors.
18. Wayback Machine copy of superset.sh, 3 November 2025 — http://web.archive.org/web/20251103093521/https://www.superset.sh/ (grade C). Read in full on 12 November 2026. The earliest copy that the archive returned. It shows a waitlist page for Superset with a 2025 copyright line.

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