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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 kmansm27 »

CharlesW wrote: post #37
kmansm27 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They currently don't have the ability to use a local session from your phone, and they only have voice input, not voice input and output for completely hands free usage.

> They currently don't have the ability to use a local session from your phone… Claude Code will help you set this up using tmux. Voice input and output personally seems like a gimmick, but OS accessibilty features should work fine for this.

Voice input + output sounds gimmicky (as I admit in the post), but it's quite useful for mobile coding. It's not as trivial as just printing out whatever Claude Code outputs.

"Claude Code will help you set this up using tmux" - I don't think that you can connect to tmux sessions running in Claude Code/Codex remote VMs using their mobile apps. Their mobile apps don't provide a terminal emulator afaik

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

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Post by theturtletalks »

How is this different from VibeTunnel which is not limited to just Claude and Codex, but brings your terminals with you on your phone using tailscale?

There's also Happy, Coder/Mux, and so many others that actually started out open-source and stayed that way and I can be sure my chats are not going to a 3rd party?

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

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Post by kovek »

isehgal wrote: post #28
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 plai…

https://happy.engineering/ says that they have E2E encryption. Is that true?

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

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Post by CuriouslyC »

This project seems like a good idea that didn't have enough of a moat. I'd suggest trying to narrow your target customer from "engineers that want to manage agents on their phone" to "people trying to do some particular kind of task," so you can bake in more value add and automation. You're not going to beat the labs on general tools, but they're not going to be willing to narrow their target customer, so you'll always be able to win at the margins.

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

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Post by jpallen »

kmansm27 wrote: post #49
jpallen wrote: post #36

There's a lot of negative feedback in this thread, so let me say I'm really excited to try this! I have caring responsibilities at home that means I'm constantly switching between my laptop and phone. Claude code web has been a very useful tool for this, but it's not a great bit of software. Omnara looks much more configurable and thought out. I've looked for various solutions to this problem that just work, and noth…

Thank you! Yeah, a big selling point of Omnara is that it "just works." Let me know how it goes!

First impressions are good! Couple of small bits of feedback:

- I only had the option to create a worktree from main. I'd like to be able to pick any starting branch. Not a big deal, I just told claude to checkout the branch I wanted as my first instruction.

- For some reason in the Android app the usual automatic capitalisation of the first letter in a sentence doesn't work. Claude probably doesn't care, but I like to type in proper sentences!

- It would be nice if the worktree names got semantic names, e.g. by running my first prompt through Haiku. Maybe that's not the order things are set up in though

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

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Post by cmsparks »

jpallen wrote: post #57
kmansm27 wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you! Yeah, a big selling point of Omnara is that it "just works." Let me know how it goes!

First impressions are good! Couple of small bits of feedback: - I only had the option to create a worktree from main. I'd like to be able to pick any starting branch. Not a big deal, I just told claude to checkout the branch I wanted as my first instruction. - For some reason in the Android app the usual automatic capitalisation of the first letter in a sentence doesn't work. Claude probably doesn't care, but I like…

> branching not from main

This is actually a PR that I have open right now, it'll be out soon!

> automatic capitalization

We'll get this fixed

> automatic worktree names

definitely on our roadmap, probably will do that this week

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

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Post by isehgal »

TheOnlyWayUp wrote: post #46

I see the need and I'll probably give it a go, but how does Omnara handle users' data? Do you store my tokens, stuff about my project, etc.? If I paste in something confidential, and Omnara suffers a breach tomorrow - will my conversation data be a part of it?

Good question. We don't have E2EE yet (it's on the roadmap), so some level of trust in Omnara is required today. All repo operations happen locally on your machine. For messages/chat history: we store those encrypted at rest because we need access to sync across devices, send notifications, and resume agents. Cloud sandboxing is opt-in and would require syncing codebase state.

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

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Post by cmsparks »

dakolli wrote: post #54

Its hilarious how there's 50 clones of the same thing in the comment section, yall need to go watch Peter Thiels talk at YC from 2011 or whenever. Be contrarian, stop building the obvious thing.

When we started out, people were asking "Why would you want to continue coding on your phone". There's obviously a ton of competition now, but I think it's also validation for us.

Even though this might be "the obvious thing", I think there is a non-obvious way to build it.

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