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
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Re: Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
We use the Claude Agent SDK and the Codex App server, which makes it easier to maintain (we used to parse out the literal terminal when we first launched, which was not maintainable - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44878650). There's also ACP (https://agentclientprotocol.com/get-started/introduction) which we'll probably integrate eventually, which should make it easier to manage all the harnesses.
Re: Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere
#73How 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!
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
Re: Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere
#74i don't get all the hate in this thread. I literally was about to build this today, using my home server, tailscale, and some kind of web frontend. thanks for saving me time :)
Thanks, we try to make it much easier than self hosting and managing your own tunnels! Let us know how it goes.
Re: Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere
#75Re: Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere
#76Why don’t use Happy Code?
It’s open source and free to use: https://github.com/slopus/happy
Re: Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere
#77Why 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
Re: Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere
#78Feels 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."
Re: Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere
#79Feels 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.
True, certainly something you could do with Tailscale+tmux but if this makes that a lot easier then it could end up being popular, increasingly the people who are pushing the most money into the likes of Anthropic are not rhe people focusing too much on the amount of money being put towards achieving their goal, rather the progress(tbh more realistic to say perceived progress) towards that goal in the shortest amount of time.
Obligatory https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
Re: Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere
#80I don't quite see the appeal, because Claude Code already supports something similar. They spin up container to make the changes in and then open a PR. I can just use the Claude iOS app to do this. My computer doesn't need to be running or exposed to the internet.
I can't sit back down at my computer and cd/ssh/tmux into that same environment.