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

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

A good reason for not using Happy Code is that they collect your usage data in the iOS app. Not sure what Omnara does, but vibe coded clones don't sell out your data to some random startup wrapping Anthropic tools.

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

#132
post #28

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…

> We don't have true E2EE yet because our service needs access to message content

That means you don't have E2EE, period. Implying that there is such a thing as "true E2EE" (as opposed to "E2EE") either indicates that you don't know what E2EE means, or that you're scammily trying to do what Apple does with iMessage and say that something that isn't E2EE is, for marketing purposes.

E2EE means that nobody except the endpoints has keys. There is no such thing as "true E2EE" any more than there is such a thing as "true pregnancy".

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

#133

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.

Yeah that makes sense. I personally feel like the tailscale + terminal emulator solution is pretty limited compared to Omnara's interface, and there's also 0 hassle of maintaining anything on your own with Omnara. You can try out Omnara for free, and see if you like it before paying! 10 sessions can get you pretty far, and there's no limit on the session length.

I dug on the product a bit further and it seems it includes remote sandboxes? Then I understand the pricing, it makes sense.

At a first glance I understood all sessions would be created at the local machine. My niche use case having a mac mini on 24/7 at home would make this interesting. That’s why I mentioned the cheaper price.

Looks like a good product. Everyone is afraid of the grind, keep going!

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

#138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

hmm, i wonder how long it would take nowadays actually

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

#139
post #132
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…

> We don't have true E2EE yet because our service needs access to message content That means you don't have E2EE, period. Implying that there is such a thing as "true E2EE" (as opposed to "E2EE") either indicates that you don't know what E2EE means, or that you're scammily trying to do what Apple does with iMessage and say that something that isn't E2EE is, for marketing purposes. E2EE means that nobody except the en…

Hysterical E2EE

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

#140
post #132
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…

> We don't have true E2EE yet because our service needs access to message content That means you don't have E2EE, period. Implying that there is such a thing as "true E2EE" (as opposed to "E2EE") either indicates that you don't know what E2EE means, or that you're scammily trying to do what Apple does with iMessage and say that something that isn't E2EE is, for marketing purposes. E2EE means that nobody except the en…

Yep, you're right, we don't have E2EE period (and we don't claim to have it anywhere), for the reasons I mention above (our cloud sandbox agent and voice agent need plaintext messages, so we'd need access to the keys, which defeats the purpose of E2EE). Apologies for the incorrect wording!
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