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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 kovek »

kmansm27 wrote: post #88
kovek wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Like what? I like it a lot...

Two of the main feature's we're investing heavily into are remote sandboxes + syncing, and voice agent support, wouldn't work with E2EE.

I can voice chat with Happy coder. Also, I run happy coder in a sandbox of mine on my computer. What do you mean by syncing? Happy coder syncs sessions between all my happy coder clients. I can even see in real time how happy coder in my browser's conversations progress as well as on my phone, in parallel.

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

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Post by kmansm27 »

hmokiguess wrote: post #73
kmansm27 wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!

when you say reliable what do you mean? hapi never once failed for me, it’s self hosted + tailscale so pretty robust reliability is not big selling point given the high cost on unlimited sessions which I use quite a bunch

I mean messages drop or stall, or syncing doesn't work, or I can't get through setup at all. But I'm sure all these solutions have improved greatly since I've tried them, I tried these things much earlier on. If hapi works perfectly for you, then maybe Omnara wouldn't be much of a value add. Are there any pain points you face with hapi?

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

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Post by notabot33 »

kmansm27 wrote: post #23
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.

thanks I missed "support syncing your local session to a cloud sandbox to continue your session" when reading through your docs that's a really nice best of both worlds feature!

FYI openchamber/opencode support claude/codex/copilot subscriptions as well

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

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Post by itissid »

Congrats on the launch. I've been fooling around with using my pipecat MCP(https://github.com/pipecat-ai/pipecat-mcp-server) with WebRTC. The WebRTC is hooked into a Webapp interface and this allows me to "talk" to different containers(projects) on my truenas.

I have just a list of chat sessions on the web app on all my projects. The webapp is modified to launch claude code daemons (borrowed from humanlayer/codelayer) and exposes the outbound STT from the WebRTC into a chat session.

- MCP Auth is via auth0

- Webapp itself is gated by a Bearer token.

This itself gets me pretty far. I am not sure what more this is offering?

My TTS/STT models are local by Kyutai and the voice agent's LLM between STT and TTS is used to determine some basic context: e.g. what project directories, mcp servers to select and what skills to use for launching the daemons.

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

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Post by ex3ndr »

cmsparks wrote: post #77
nzxt210 wrote: post #76

Why don’t use Happy Code? It’s open source and free to use: https://github.com/slopus/happy

We've seen a decent amount of comparisons to Happy, but anecdotally from some Omnara users who have used both, I've heard that reliability and latency when sending messaages is much better in Omnara We try to provide more features on top as well, including (but not limited to): * improved web interface * worktrees * sandboxing * richer git management (richer diffs, checkpoints, git operations) * preview URLs

Stability was our (Happy) temporary problem, since our DB grown to reach like a TB now, but since we upgraded it is much much better.

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

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Post by hmokiguess »

kmansm27 wrote: post #93
hmokiguess wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

when you say reliable what do you mean? hapi never once failed for me, it’s self hosted + tailscale so pretty robust reliability is not big selling point given the high cost on unlimited sessions which I use quite a bunch

I mean messages drop or stall, or syncing doesn't work, or I can't get through setup at all. But I'm sure all these solutions have improved greatly since I've tried them, I tried these things much earlier on. If hapi works perfectly for you, then maybe Omnara wouldn't be much of a value add. Are there any pain points you face with hapi?

Yeah none of these issues happen to me, so if Omnara has no other value add then I don't see a reason to pay for it.

I was curious if it had something Hapi didn't have, but sounds like it doesn't.

Thanks for your help!

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

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Post by kmansm27 »

kovek wrote: post #75
kmansm27 wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Like what? I like it a lot...

Replying to your latest comment here:

What do you mean by syncing? Happy coder syncs sessions between all my happy coder clients. I can even see in real time how happy coder in my browser's conversations progress as well as on my phone, in parallel.

Omnara also displays realtime conversations between all Omnara clients. What I mean by syncing is syncing your conversation and code changes to a cloud sandbox, which is useful if you're using Omnara on your laptop and you close your computer (as explained in the original post). If you run your agents on a persistent cloud VM, then this is less of a value add.

I can voice chat with Happy coder.

We use https://docs.livekit.io/agents/ which runs the voice agent in the cloud (to enable the above use case, and a better experience when you're using your phone when it's off), whereas I believe happy runs a client-side voice agent.

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

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Post by kmansm27 »

mchusma wrote: post #92

getting this error trying to connect github: github_unauthorized: GitHub OAuth error: The redirect_uri MUST match the registered callback URL for this application.

Looking into this, will fix this soon! GitHub auth should be working on the web app, if you try there (assuming you got this error on mobile). You can continue to use Omnara normally without signing into GitHub, you just won't be able to use the cloud syncning feature til you auth with GitHub.
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