The Founder Running 5 Versions of His Own AI Coding App | Charlie Holtz

Show Me Your Stack Ep 05: Charlie Holtz | Co-Founder & CEO of Conductor In this episode of Show Me Your Stack, Charlie walks us through the physical desk setup, the five simultaneous Conductor instances he keeps running, and the philosophy behind dogfooding your own tool at every stage of development. Topics covered: Physical setup: gooseneck mic, flag system for focus, the "plus two" monitor glasses Running 5 Conductor instances at once (Prod, Beta, Alpha, local experiments, and a social-feed prototype) Conductor's workspace/city naming system and the Passport world map feature Why he keeps AI out of his browser and defaults to Safari Spokenly for voice dictation, Granola for meeting notes, Raycast for speed Using /etc/hosts to block distracting websites "Skills" — turning institutional knowledge into reusable agent instructions The principle: don't let the AI be your architect Conductor Cloud and what's coming next Lord Crandon: personal assistant, workout coach, customer support agent Side projects: David Attenborough narrating his life on LinkedIn ------ Follow our Host: Jules https://x.com/julesrosenberg Follow our featured guest: https://x.com/charlieholtz Follow our sponsor: @Vercelhq https://x.com/vercel Follow Boys Club: https://x.com/BoysClubWorld ------ Timestamps 0:00 Intro 0:35 Chapter 1: The Analog Stack:Notebook, 3D printed attention flag, desk mic, Keychron Q10 Diagonal Keyboard, Logitech MX Vertical Mouse 1:20 Chapter 2: Stack Specificity: Conductor, Zed, Notion Calendar, Notion, Spokenly, Granola, Claude, Safari, Raycast 8:05 Chapter 3: Conductor's Operating Principles: Fly, /Skills 11:10 Chapter 4: Hacks in Progress: OpenClaw, Ghostty Stack mentioned: Conductor — AI coding agent workspace manager (Charlie's own product) Claude Code — AI coding agent GPT-4o / Codex — AI coding agent (run in parallel Conductor workspaces) Notion Calendar — Calendar management Safari — Web browser Raycast — App launcher / productivity tool Spokenly — Voice dictation software Granola — AI meeting notes Fly.io / Sprites — Cloud VM hosting (for Conductor Cloud) v0 by Vercel — Web-based coding agent and app builder GitHub — Code review and comments /etc/hosts — Website blocking (manual productivity hack) Lord Crandon — Custom personal assistant agent (customer feedback, workouts, company updates) This episode is sponsored by v0 by Vercel. Go from idea to production in seconds at v0.app