I met Ishaan a few months ago when he had just gotten into YC, congrats on the launch!! Progress seems great and excited to see what you have in the future!
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
#112Congrats 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/codelay…
This sounds solid, similar stuff to what we do! Sounds like this setup gets you most of the way there. We also have a mobile app + notifications. And I haven't tried using a coding voice agent via MCP, I'll try that out soon!
Re: Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere
#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Haha yeah, we love happy, seems like you guys are popular in this thread :)
Re: Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere
#114I met Ishaan a few months ago when he had just gotten into YC, congrats on the launch!! Progress seems great and excited to see what you have in the future!
Really appreciate that means a lot. Excited for what’s ahead
Re: Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere
#115OpenCode is free and has an excellent front end for this kind of work
OpenCode is great and `opencode serve` in particular is very cool. Though I think the main thing is that you need to manage the OpenCode server yourself and expose it via tailscale or something like that. Our goal is to provide managed infrastructure around the coding agent harness with features like mobile, sandboxes, preview urls, etc. Our goal is to be harness agnostic as well, so eventually we will be adding supp…
How do you plan to be harness agnostic if you design requires using the agent SDKs (Claude Agent SDK, etc.)?
Re: Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere
#116Congrats 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/codelay…
This sounds solid, similar stuff to what we do! Sounds like this setup gets you most of the way there. We also have a mobile app + notifications. And I haven't tried using a coding voice agent via MCP, I'll try that out soon!
Good to know its similar. Oh I actually do have a text box as well, but using it to type from the phone is not very convenient. Too much typing, I generally STT into the text box. I don't use it to code much, unless I have specced it out and I know the spec is good. But then to code it up is just a few mins, no?
I spend my time trying to tuning the voice+webapp experience: i.e. how it can explain things, can it surface thinking tokens from claude tools properly etc. The sweat, blood, voice go into `/create_research -> /create_plan` loop before the `/implement_plan`. Sometimes I copy the research and paste it into chatGPT for review or comments as well.
I generally use the MCP to get it to follow commands and explain things to me to make progress in this cycle, and I often pause it and ask for drawing me a mermaid a sequence diagram for events or a block diagram showing how pieces go together.
Re: Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere
#117OpenClaw already does all these things and better. It can run 24/7 in one (or more) VMs that I control from my phone, without extra cost.
Re: Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere
#118Feels 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.
Funny how similar this is to the famous comment on Dropbox's Launch HN post in 2007. "1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software."
You couldn't vibe-code Dropbox in an hour though...
Re: Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere
#119I would be blown away if Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google don't all offer this functionality in the near future.
Also, I'm not sure many engineers really WANT to be able to do more "vibe coding" away from their laptop.
Is this really what our job is going to be? Typing in prompts from a mobile phone?
Good luck guys but I think a pivot might be in order.
Re: Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere
#120Great to see. It’ll be great to democratize access to remotely using cli coding agents.
I’ve been iterating the past few months on a solution to use Claude Code on my phone while it runs on my laptop and it’s a lot of moving parts: Tailscale, git worktrees, tmux, an always-on “caffeinate” process, and a ton of hooks & tweaks to fix bugs along the way. It’s become very comfortable but in the process, impossible for anyone but me to understand.
But it’s awesome because I own the machine that runs tests and am not paying monthly for anything but Claude Max - and it keeps going if I lock my phone or go into a cell reception dead zone.
Productising such a thing would be a very interesting challenge indeed.