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Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code

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Re: Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code

#61

That video on the homepage is insane... please for the sake of your amazing app, slow it down and make it less frantic! (Super rapid zooming in and out, flying all over screen at 3x speed, must cover eyes!!)

Engineers often see no value in what marketers do. This video is what they don't do.

Re: Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code

#62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm with you on desktop but I've been craving some sort of way to interact with Claude Code from my phone while I'm out and about. What I want at the core is to be able to open up access to my laptop's currently running Claude Code instance (without all these hacky backdoors that fork the chat with every message by using `--print`; I want a first class API that lets me append messages to the current chat), then I wan…

I have been using VibeTunnel from the iPad. Probably not good for a phone, but on a slightly larger screen it's great. The tailscale integration makes it super easy.

Pretty neat, links included below for convenience:

https://vibetunnel.sh/

https://github.com/amantus-ai/vibetunnel

Many of my claude tasks get frequently get stuck over small stuff, or require input from me, so I had Claude whip up something comparable in a few minutes. Now I can keep them moving remotely with ease and not be stuck in front of a desktop monitoring them! It's dreamy.

Re: Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code

#63

That video on the homepage is insane... please for the sake of your amazing app, slow it down and make it less frantic! (Super rapid zooming in and out, flying all over screen at 3x speed, must cover eyes!!)

Video promises what it should: a dopamine shot!

Re: Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code

#66
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I get that some people go that way, but to me, the fact that Claude Code is a standalone terminal app is a strength, not a weakness. I don't really want or need a GUI here. "From Terminal Chaos to Visual Clarity" doesn't resonate with me; terminals to me are simpler and more structured. At most, I've been thinking about installing one of the extensions to integrate Claude Code into (neo)vim, but even that I'm not sur…

I'm with you on desktop but I've been craving some sort of way to interact with Claude Code from my phone while I'm out and about. What I want at the core is to be able to open up access to my laptop's currently running Claude Code instance (without all these hacky backdoors that fork the chat with every message by using `--print`; I want a first class API that lets me append messages to the current chat), then I wan…

use Termius (shell client for iOS devices). put your phone and laptop/desktop on the same VPN. SSH in, use Claude Code normally from anywhere

Re: Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code

#67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're opposed to using VSCode for whatever reason, that's reasonable. Though, for me personally, the fact that it only lets you use Claude Code strikes me as a much larger negative on net. It's not at all agnostic in terms of AI provider. That said, VSCode is a popular platform for this for exactly the reason I think consolidation is eventually inevitable: it's got a huge preexisting ecosystem. There are extensio…

There are lots and lots and lots of us that don't like using VSCode, want to use our own IDE of choice and use Claude Code. Terminal / standalone app is best for me there or even better an IDE plugin. A tiny island is fine for a tool like this - not everything needs an 'ecosystem'.

The thing about tiny islands isn't that every tool needs a sprawling ecosystem to thrive. It's that applications that don't develop a userbase tend to die. This is as true of open source apps as it is commercial ones.

Typically, applications develop a userbase when they offer something that people can't find elsewhere.

What I'm saying isn't "everyone should be using VScode extensions for this"; it's "I see nothing to distinguish this from a bunch of other functionally identical applications and people just keep building them." I literally don't see a single unique feature promoted on the landing page.

My fundamental point is that we're in a gold rush phase where people are all building the same thing. We'll eventually see a handful of apps get popular and effort swell around those instead of everyone reimplementing the same thing. And my money is on that looking a lot like it usually does: the winners will be the apps that find some way to differentiate themselves.

Re: Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code

#70

On the one hand, it's good that we're seeing a lot of exploration in this space. On the other, the trend seems to be everyone developing a million disparate tools that largely replicate the same functionality with the primary variation being greater-or-lesser lock-in to a particular set of services. This is about the third tool this week I've taken a quick look at and thought "I don't see what this offers me that I d…

> primary variation being greater-or-lesser lock-in to a particular set of services

> I don't see what this offers me that I don't already have with Roo

Ironic >-< for an AI tool tied to a specific IDE

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