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Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere

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Re: Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere

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Post by lalo2302 »

Feels expensive for something that an engineer can hack in a couple of ours with tailscale and Claude Code. Has potential though. At $9 I'd be totally in, but moving from CC's Max plan at $100, adding $20 makes me wanna just hack an alternative. Maybe I'm just cheap.

Re: Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere

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Post by kmansm27 »

notabot33 wrote: post #14

Another option that does all this and more for open code: https://github.com/btriapitsyn/openchamber Not affiliated with that project, but have been using it for a few weeks and it blows every other 'GUI for the CLI agents' I've tried out of the water in terms of both features and just working snappily/consistently. Also totally free, and actively being improved by the solo maintainer and an active community of contr…

Yeah, this looks great for OpenCode (which we're planning on adding soon!), but I personally have Claude Code and Codex subscriptions, which Omnara supports. We also support syncing your local session to a cloud sandbox to continue your session, and in the cloud sandbox, we provide LLM tokens. As well as our voice agent costs are covered by us.

Re: Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere

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Post by kmansm27 »

sanufar wrote: post #18
sanufar wrote: post #17

Woah, I had this exact idea, down to the tunneling and local machine! I basically just coded up a Tailscale + caffeinate harness for my agents and it's been working super well. Your UI looks great though, glad to see more players in this space!

Also your promo video is really fun! https://www.omnara.com/assets/landing/video/movie.mp4

Haha thanks! It was fun to shoot :)

Re: Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere

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Post by redrove »

lalo2302 wrote: post #22

Feels expensive for something that an engineer can hack in a couple of ours with tailscale and Claude Code. Has potential though. At $9 I'd be totally in, but moving from CC's Max plan at $100, adding $20 makes me wanna just hack an alternative. Maybe I'm just cheap.

Agreed. In a post-CC world anyone can build this for themselves so easily. Especially since their entire supposed customer base already uses these tools to begin with.

Re: Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere

#28

Post by isehgal »

jdmoreira wrote: post #19

If you can see the messages unfortunately thats a deal breaker for me. If its encrypted end-to-end than I’m in.

Fair concern. We don't have true E2EE yet because our service needs access to message content for cross-device sync, notifications, and agent execution. Everything is encrypted in transit and at rest, and all repo operations happen locally on your machine.

We've heard this from other users and it's on our roadmap. The challenge is we're building features like voice coding agents and hosted sandboxes that require plaintext inputs, so we'd need two execution models. Doable, but adds complexity for our team size.

That said, it's something we're prioritizing as we grow. No promises on timing, but it's coming.

If you want to discuss specific requirements or a local-only mode, happy to chat: https://discord.gg/Dc46sYk6e3

Re: Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere

#29

Post by deron12 »

tverbeure wrote: post #16
koakuma-chan wrote: post #12

So you're just a Claude Code wrapper? Question to YC: how did this get funded?

I used to think that getting admitted to YC was a major accomplishment. Maybe it was at some point, but at the college graduation parties of my daughter it seemed like pretty much everyone who tried had gotten in. Most collapsed after a few months due to infighting, funds mismanagement etc. It was fascinating to watch.

I think you mean "prestigious" rather than "major accomplishment". You're right, there was a small period of time when it was. However, that window didn't quite align with "best time to do YC" (several years prior to such prestige) nor with "best time to be doing YC" (the prestige embellishes your resume, which is useless if you're otherwise occupied).

It's interesting to me that YC has managed to dilute this prestige to a large extent. I don't think it's an inevitable result of scale: look at Google. I think "Xoogler" prestige has diminished, but it's not nearly as bad as what has happened to the YC label.

My theory is: YC never figured out their formula. The whole formula is essentially Paul Graham, who had a knack for trusting his gut (and sometimes his wife) when everything else in his "system" was saying NO.

Once they lost that, they had to rely on what was left, and it simply wasn't competitive anymore. It's like Apple in their John Sculley era. While Sculley is credited with growing Apple's revenue from $800 million to $8 billion, his approach created a "mess of dull SKUs" that eventually confused customers and diluted the brand.

They also have a (bad) habit of removing access to bookface for all the founders who aren't "active", decimating their network and in some ways discarding valuable knowledge around what didn't work.

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