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

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

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  • 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.
  • jpallen
    There's a lot of negative feedback in this thread, so let me say I'm really excited to try this! I have caring responsibilities at home that means I'm constantly switching between my laptop and phone. Claude code web has been a very useful tool for this, but it's not a great bit of software. Omnara looks much more configurable and thought out. I've looked for various solutions to this problem that just work, and nothing else mentioned in this thread fits the bill. Your demo looks like it nails it - I'm excited to try!
  • nzxt210
    Why don’t use Happy Code? It’s open source and free to use: https://github.com/slopus/happy
  • lalo2302
    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.
  • ncphillips
    I 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.
  • sanufar
    Woah, I had this exact idea, down to the tunneling and local machine! I basically just coded up a Tailscale + caffeinate harness for my agents and it's been working super well. Your UI looks great though, glad to see more players in this space!
  • cadamsdotcom
    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 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.
  • JLO64
    I’ve been SSHing into my dev server off of my phone to run Claude Code while commuting, so this is a product that I would love to switch to. I can’t use the Claude iOS app due to the testing set up I have. That said I do have a couple of questions:- Is it possible to completely disable or not use the remote sandbox features? I would never use them and would prefer my code stays on my device.- For those of us that are using subscriptions, does it show our remaining usage? I would hate to run out of tokens in the middle of a session.- One feature of the CC TUI I sorely missed on mobile is the ability to look up and directly reference files via “@“. Is any functionality like this planned?- (This likely won’t affect my decision to use the service as I’ll just put it on a company card.) $20 per month for a service that runs CC on a remote machine in a convenient matter is steep but doable. Asking that same amount for a running code on my own server seems a bit unjustified, especially since this is pricier than the cost of a Claude pro subscription. Are there any plans to offer a cheaper tier for those of us that just want to run this on our own machines?
  • CuriouslyC
    This project seems like a good idea that didn't have enough of a moat. I'd suggest trying to narrow your target customer from "engineers that want to manage agents on their phone" to "people trying to do some particular kind of task," so you can bake in more value add and automation. You're not going to beat the labs on general tools, but they're not going to be willing to narrow their target customer, so you'll always be able to win at the margins.
  • jdmoreira
    If you can see the messages unfortunately thats a deal breaker for me. If its encrypted end-to-end than I’m in.
  • kgc
    I think the native Claude and Codex apps already do this for free. They even have the voice input.
  • RobMurray
    How does this compare to Happy Coder? https://github.com/slopus/happy
  • fathermarz
    What changed from your original launch? I know you were hamstrung by something (updates if I recall).Was there some unlock that happened to make it viable again?I was an omnara user until that happened and then I switched to happy.engineering. It’s been okay, but I’m excited that omnara is back
  • upmind
    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!
  • zomglings
    I have been hungry to do more work from my cell phone. It's ridiculous to be forced to sit in front of a computer to work with AI.My current solution is to have claude (--dangerously-skip-permissions) listen for messages in my slack DMs to myself and take action in response to those messages.I would happily switch to something better.Why is Omnara better?
  • fiico
    Pretty cool was just thinking about this yesterday if I could Claude code from my phone on the couch on side projects would be awesome
  • groovetandon
    Been looking for something like this - I feel like I lose a lot of work during lunch runs and on the commute home.
  • devinbernosky
    OpenCode is free and has an excellent front end for this kind of work
  • p-a_58213
    I think someone should also mention Happy (https://happy.engineering), which has decent mobile clients and is currently MIT-licensed.Although I must say that Omnara's UI looks absolutely fantastic. Well done!
  • theturtletalks
    How is this different from VibeTunnel which is not limited to just Claude and Codex, but brings your terminals with you on your phone using tailscale?There's also Happy, Coder/Mux, and so many others that actually started out open-source and stayed that way and I can be sure my chats are not going to a 3rd party?
  • tmshapland
    Congrats the launch, guys!
  • sneak
    I already have my OpenClaw instance set up with a user account and associated API key on my Gitea instance, and all I have to do is instruct it in Mattermost and it has PRs up and ready for me, with links. I review them, tell it to merge them, and my CI autodeploys it, all in Mattermost and Safari on my phone.For sensitive apps, it can't merge them, so I have to hit the button in the Gitea web interface (also on my phone), which does the same thing.
  • TheOnlyWayUp
    I see the need and I'll probably give it a go, but how does Omnara handle users' data? Do you store my tokens, stuff about my project, etc.?If I paste in something confidential, and Omnara suffers a breach tomorrow - will my conversation data be a part of it?
  • njarecki
    Can you guys please make an iOS app that replicates the Claude code app to hook into this one problem my hat is that it can’t query live DB etc. all the things we need a persistent client based terminal session for. But the app is really slick, so it would be great to have it with the multiple threads sidebar, etc..
  • saadn92
    Built something like this that’s open source and free: https://github.com/saadnvd1/agent-os
  • hmokiguess
    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
  • m3sta
    Can you make it work in android auto?
  • keepamovin
    There's certainly something to the "mass delegation" trend. My best rn is on email: https://ai-chat.email
  • inercia
    Open Source alternative: https://github.com/inercia/mitto
  • mchusma
    getting this error trying to connect github: github_unauthorized: GitHub OAuth error: The redirect_uri MUST match the registered callback URL for this application.
  • Nextbysam
  • __sy__
    i 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 :)
  • wiseowise
    "You're walking in the park when an idea for a new feature hits just..." stop thinking about this shit and focus on the walk in the fucking park. Jesus.
  • barapa
    how is this a company?
  • notabot33
    Another option that does all this and more for open code: https://github.com/btriapitsyn/openchamberNot 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 contributors.Omnara providing a tunnel for you is nice, but considering Tailscale is dead simple and free, feels hard to justify $20 a month for what looks like considerably less features than openchamber
  • Nextbysam
    great product.try spoq.dev , it's free
  • eclipxe
    OpenChamber is a good option you use opencode
  • dakolli
    Its hilarious how there's 50 clones of the same thing in the comment section, yall need to go watch Peter Thiels talk at YC from 2011 or whenever. Be contrarian, stop building the obvious thing.
  • saberience
    I 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.
  • sidsud
    I don't really understand the market for handoff of your vibe-coding session. Considering there's a need, does this use-case warrant a full blown SaaS solution?Sidenote - is this novel enough to be backed by YC? Just seems like a feature that Anthropic/OpenAI could release any day.
  • koakuma-chan
    So you're just a Claude Code wrapper? Question to YC: how did this get funded?
  • gdilla
    sounds really close to fart, in japanese.
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  • ed_mercer
    OpenClaw 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.