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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 »

theturtletalks wrote: post #52

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?

We think that terminal interfaces, especially on mobile, are not going to be the way people end up interacting with agents in the long run, which is a big reason we built Omnara.

And Omnara chats are stored in our DB, which is how we're able to enable our voice agent, cloud syncing, and ability to see all your chats while your machine is offline. Basically anything you see in the web and mobile clients is being proxied/persisted through our server, until you delete the chat.

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

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Post by sidsud »

kmansm27 wrote: post #43
sidsud wrote: post #35

I don't really understand the market for handoff of your vibe-coding session. Considering there's a need, does this use-case warrant a full blown SaaS solution? Sidenote - is this novel enough to be backed by YC? Just seems like a feature that Anthropic/OpenAI could release any day.

The idea is that if agents are coding for you, there's no need to be at your desk to manage them. I think the case for managing coding agents without being at your desk is becoming stronger as agents become more autonomous. And for your sidenote, we'll see when Anthropic/OpenAI release something similar. For now it's pretty useful, and we're making it better every day.

congrats on the launch man! didn't mean to come off negatively. as for the sidenote - it might be worth considering now to push the product forward.

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

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Post by geoffschmidt »

deron12 wrote: post #29
tverbeure wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 prestig…

I think Jessica Livingston deserves at least as much credit as Paul for YC's success in that early era, and IIRC he has the same view.

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

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Post by cmsparks »

CuriouslyC wrote: post #56

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 alwa…

Our goal is building infrastructure around the agent tools, which I think is how we'll build up a moat and provide automation value. I agree that competing with the labs on general tools is probably a bad business decision, but I'd argue that just means we should compete on the infrastructure, not the harness/model.

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

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Post by theturtletalks »

kmansm27 wrote: post #61
theturtletalks wrote: post #52

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?

We think that terminal interfaces, especially on mobile, are not going to be the way people end up interacting with agents in the long run, which is a big reason we built Omnara. And Omnara chats are stored in our DB, which is how we're able to enable our voice agent, cloud syncing, and ability to see all your chats while your machine is offline. Basically anything you see in the web and mobile clients is being proxi…

Good point, but Happy also has parsers to turn terminal output into "chat bubbles" but with how often Claude Code and Codex change that output, that parser has to be updated every time. With new terminal agents coming into the fray, wouldn't you forever have to parse new agents to make them available?

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

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Post by CharlesW »

kmansm27 wrote: post #51
CharlesW wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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

> Their mobile apps don't provide a terminal emulator afaik

Right, this requires using a terminal app.

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

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Post by kmansm27 »

hmokiguess wrote: post #48

How does it compare to https://hapi.run/ ? I have been pretty satisfied with it, and it’s free with unlimited sessions, so I need a good reason to switch

I haven't tried out https://hapi.run/, but I've tried similar things and in my experience Omnara is much more reliable than the other solutions, as well as I enjoy the UX of Omnara much more. Give it a try, it's one command to set up and the free tier gives you everything that the paid tier does, so you can decide if you like it before paying!

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

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Post by kmansm27 »

kovek wrote: post #55
isehgal wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Yes, they have E2EE, but it comes with some limitations in the features they're able to provide.
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