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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 tomasphan »

GraffitiTim wrote: post #78
lalo2302 wrote: post #22

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.

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."

Dropbox is not a tool solely for developers though.

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

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Post by kundi »

cmsparks wrote: post #159
kundi wrote: post #151

If you can improve over existing user experience of other tools, this is certainly worth the price. How are you handling private data and chats transmitted?

Reposting part of what Ishaan said elsewhere: > 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.

Does your service require access to the code? Could you explain what trust specifically is required - is there anything else besides messages / chat history that you store and how long you retain those?

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

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Post by groask »

cadamsdotcom wrote: post #120

Great 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 an…

Totally relate to the "tons of hooks & tweaks" part. I've been using Claude Code daily to build a macOS app solo, and ended up in the same rabbit hole — hooks, FSEvents, process monitoring, all duct-taped together.

The remote/phone side I haven't solved (your Tailscale+tmux setup sounds solid for that), but the "at my desk" problem — losing track of which terminal is doing what — I ended up productizing into a small menubar app called GroAsk (groask.com). It does two things: ⌥Space to quick-launch any AI, and a dashboard showing real-time status of all Claude Code sessions so you can jump to the right terminal instantly.

Very different scope from Omnara — purely local, purely desktop, no remote/phone stuff. But for the "I have 3 sessions running and forgot which one needs me" problem it's been a huge quality of life improvement for my own workflow.

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

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Post by cadamsdotcom »

groask wrote: post #164
cadamsdotcom wrote: post #120

Great 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 an…

Totally relate to the "tons of hooks & tweaks" part. I've been using Claude Code daily to build a macOS app solo, and ended up in the same rabbit hole — hooks, FSEvents, process monitoring, all duct-taped together. The remote/phone side I haven't solved (your Tailscale+tmux setup sounds solid for that), but the "at my desk" problem — losing track of which terminal is doing what — I ended up productizing into a small…

Nice. For the “which session needs me” challenge I arrange windows spatially and use numbers for my worktree naming.

So the main repo is always the left-most, then worktree 1, and so on.

Rereading the Claude Code transcript is an excellent tool for getting back into the context of what I’m working on in a particular window.

I struggle to run more than 3 truly complex implementations at once, but can handle as many as 6 or 7 if I’m just fixing little bugs.

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

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Post by cmsparks »

kundi wrote: post #163
cmsparks wrote: post #159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reposting part of what Ishaan said elsewhere: > 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.

Does your service require access to the code? Could you explain what trust specifically is required - is there anything else besides messages / chat history that you store and how long you retain those?

Sandboxing, which is an optional, opt-in feature, requires persistent access to the code via our github integration + us syncing certain refs to our backend.

However, even if you don't opt into syncing, tool calls will end up sending pieces of code from your codebase to our backend. That's just the nature of how we handle persistence of chats. Though messages/chats are retained until you delete them.

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

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Post by perfectus »

I think you could give it a try at vibedoctor.dev. They probably use Sandbox and they charge only the Sandbox price. I think it's better if you don't want to keep your local system tethered online and also you can use Claude or Codex subscription.

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

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Post by sidsud »

kmansm27 wrote: post #89
sidsud wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Thanks! And yeah it's definitely something we think about very often, we're coming up with ways to differentiate ourselves.

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/remote-control
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