Show HN: Omnara – Run Claude Code from anywhere

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259 points | by kmansm27 17 hours ago

41 comments

  • henriquegodoy 16 hours ago
    This is pretty cool and feels like we're heading in the right direction, the whole idea of being able to hop between devices while claude code is thinking through problems is neat, but honestly what excites me more is the broader pattern here, like we're moving toward a world where coding isn't really about sitting down and grinding out syntax for hours, it's becoming more about organizing tasks and letting ai agents figure out the implementation details.

    I can already see how this evolves into something where you're basically managing a team of specialized agents rather than doing the actual coding, you set up some high-level goals, maybe break them down into chunks, and then different agents pick up different pieces and coordinate with each other, the human becomes more like a project manager making decisions when the agents get stuck or need direction, imho tools like omnara are just the first step toward that, right now it's one agent that needs your input occasionally, but eventually it'll probably be orchestrating multiple agents working in parallel, way better than sitting there watching progress bars for 10 minutes.

    • manumasson 31 minutes ago
      > it's becoming more about organizing tasks and letting ai agents figure out the implementation details ... different agents pick up different pieces and coordinate with each other

      This is exactly what I have been working on for the past year and a half. A system for managing agents where you get to work at a higher abstraction level, explaining (literally with your voice) the concepts & providing feedback. All the agent-agent-human communication is on a shared markdown tree.

      I haven't posted it anywhere yet, but your comment just describes the vision too well, I guess it's time to start sharing it :D see https://voicetree.io for a demo video. I have been using it everyday for engineering work, and it really is feeling like how you describe; my job is now more about organizing tasks, explaining them well, and providing critique, but just through talking to the computer. For example, when going through the git diffs of what the agents wrote, I will be speaking out loud any problems I notice, resulting in voice -> text -> markdown tree updates and these will send hook notifications to claude code so they automatically address feedback.

    • kbouck 4 hours ago
      > moving toward a world where coding isn't really about sitting down and grinding out syntax

      Love the idea of "coding" while walking/running outside. For me those outside activities help me clear my mind and think about tough problems or higher level stuff. The thought of directing agents to help persist and refine fleeting thoughts/ideas/insights, flesh out design/code, etc is intriguing

      • sampullman 3 hours ago
        I do a bit of that now, I'll mostly use Claude code at home, and set Jules on some tasks from my phone while exercising. Reviewing code is tedious though, and I don't see it getting too much better.
    • kmansm27 16 hours ago
      Exactly! My ideal vision for the future is that agents will be doing all grunt work/implementation, and we'll just be guiding them.

      Can't wait til I'm coding on the beach (by managing a team of agents that notify me when they need me), but it might take a few more model releases before we get there lol

      • zmmmmm 9 hours ago
        If you think you could do that on the beach, couldn't you do traditional software dev on the beach?

        I actually think there's a chance it will shift away from that because it will shift the emphasis to fast feedback loops which means you are spending more of your time interacting with stakeholders, gathering feedback etc. Manual coding is more the sort of task you can do for hours on end without interruption ("at the beach").

        • wiseowise 24 minutes ago
          > which means you are spending more of your time interacting with stakeholders, gathering feedback etc.

          Jesus Christ, I really need to speed up development of my product. If this shifts to more meetings at wageslave, I’m going to kill myself.

        • szundi 5 hours ago
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      • jdironman 8 hours ago
        What happens is the status quo changes. Like what happened with Dev/Ops. If you find yourself with the time to lead agents on a beach retreat you might find yourself pulled into more product design / management meetings instead. AI/Dev like DevOps. Wearing more hats as a result. Maybe I'm wrong though.
      • roozbeh18 14 hours ago
        someone at the leadership is also thinking how he/she can lower head count by removing the agent master
      • js4ever 13 hours ago
        I did exactly that all this summer at the beach with Claude code. Future is already here!
      • theappsecguy 11 hours ago
        Seems like your vision is to let AI take over your livelihood. That’s an unusually chipper way to hand over the keys unless you have a lifetime of wealth stashed away.
        • zaptheimpaler 7 hours ago
          There is enormous money and effort in making AI that can do that, so if it's possible it is eventually going to happen. The only question is whether you're part of the group making the replacement or the group being replaced.
        • filoleg 10 hours ago
          It depends on what their livelihood is.

          If their livelihood is solving difficult problems, and writing code is just the implementation detail the gotta deal with, then this isn’t gonna do much to threaten their livelihood. Like, I am not aware of any serious SWE (who actually designs complex systems and implements them) being genuinely worried about their livelihood after trying out AI agents. If anything, that makes them feel more excited about their work.

          But if someone’s just purely codemonkeying trivial stuff for their livelihood, then yeah, they should feel threatened. I have a feeling that this isn’t what the grandparent comment user does for a living tho.

      • IncreasePosts 16 hours ago
        What will you have to offer when coding is so easy at that point?
        • kmansm27 15 hours ago
          I still think that human taste is important even if agents become really good at implementing everything and everyone's just an idea guy. Counter argument: if agents do become really good at implementation, then I'm not sure if even human taste would matter if agents could brute force every possibility and launch it into the market.

          Maybe I'll just call it a day and chill with the fam

    • jama211 13 hours ago
      Yeah exactly, this is awesome, I’ve always wondered while waiting for AI operations to complete why I’m “tied” to my machine and can’t just shut my laptop while it worked and see what it’d done later. This is so cool
    • Dayshine 16 hours ago
      But why should it take time at all? Newer developer tooling (especially some of the rust tools e.g. UV) are lightning fast.

      Wouldn't it be better if you asked for it and rather than having to manage workers it was just... Done

      • jama211 13 hours ago
        Yes it would be good if we lived in a world where ai magically knew exactly what we wanted even before we did and implemented everything perfectly first time in a way we’d have no issues with or tweaks we’d like it to make ever. I agree.
  • mccoyb 16 hours ago
    One big question I have, in the era of Claude Code (and advancements yet to come) — is why should a hacker submit to using tools behind a SaaS offering … when one can just roll their own tools? I may be mistaken, but I don’t think there is any sort of moat here.

    Truly — this is an excellent and accessible idea (bravo!), but if I can whittle away at a free and open source version, why should I ever consider paying for this?

    • myflash13 7 hours ago
      This is exactly what I thought when picking a customer support software last month. After hiring my first support person and being unable to decide between Intercom/Front/HelpScout/Zendesk I finally just vibe coded my own helpdesk in a few days with the just the features I needed - perfectly integrated into my SaaS, and best of all, free.
    • zackify 16 hours ago
      Yeah exactly.

      I’ve been using Tailscale ssh to a raspberry pi.

      With Termix on iOS.

      I can do all the same stuff on my own. Termix is awesome (I’m not affiliated)

    • kmansm27 16 hours ago
      Thanks! I think the main reason to pay right now would be for convenience. A user wouldn't have to worry about hosting their own frontend/backend and building their own mobile app. And eventually, we want to have different agent providers host their agents for use on our platform, but that's further out.
      • svieira 15 hours ago
        Correct - but if this is such a game changer in development speed and the market is already validated that this kind of platform is useful then step 1 is build enough of a clone of the platform to start iterating with it and then ... TO THE MOON! It's entirely a having-the-best-vision moat, which is a moat, but one that's principally protected by trademark lawsuits.
    • sailfast 13 hours ago
      Because then you don’t have to whittle away, and you’re free to blame someone else if anything goes wrong.

      Maybe that is more for a general engineer than a Hacker though - hacker to me implies some sort of joy in doing it yourself rather than optimizing.

      • mccoyb 9 hours ago
        I like to be able to tweak things to my liking, and this typically leads me to make my own versions of things.

        Probably a bad habit.

    • mccoyb 16 hours ago
      The answer here might be: "you're not our market" (which is totally fine! but slightly confusing, because presumably people _using agents like Claude Code_ are ... more advanced than the uninitiated)
      • kmansm27 16 hours ago
        Yeah, I would say that most Claude Code users are pretty technical, but I was surprised to see that there's a decent number of non-technical users using Claude Code to completely vibe code applications for their personal use. Those users seem to love tools like Codex (the openai cloud UI one, not the CLI) and things like Omnara, where there's no setup
        • mccoyb 16 hours ago
          Makes sense! Thanks for discussing.
    • jama211 13 hours ago
      I mean, you could say this about almost literally any software product ever to be honest. Feel free I guess? People like to pay for convenience and support so they don’t have to build everything themselves.
    • bobbylarrybobby 14 hours ago
      • mccoyb 14 hours ago
        This doesn't contribute to the conversation ... without further elaboration on what your point is, I'm assuming that you're pointing out that my question is analogous to previous (good to ask!) questions about market and user model for an "eventually very big" application.

        Not very enlightening: just because Dropbox became big in one environment, doesn't mean the same questions aren't important in new spaces.

        • arendtio 14 hours ago
          Well, this is a classic here at HN.

          So every time someone comes around with a sentence like 'but if I can whittle away at a free and open source version, why should I ever consider paying for this?', the answer will be that Dropbox thread ;-)

          • herval 9 hours ago
            Following on this offtopic - I wonder if there was ever another case of the Dropbox thread effect on HN? I don’t recall any other cases…
  • tqwhite 11 hours ago
    When you let Claude run free over changes big enough to have this thing be meaningful, are you really getting good enough code?

    When I just set Claude loose for long periods, I get incomprehensible, brittle code.

    I don't do maintenance so maybe that's the difference but I have not had good results from big, unsupervised changes.

    • adastra22 4 hours ago
      Subagents has changed this for me. I routinely run half hour to hour long tasks with no human intervention, and actually get good results at the end (most of the time, not all of the time).

      The reason isn’t that AI models have gotten better, although they clearly have, but that using subagents (1) keeps context clear of false starts and errors that otherwise poison the AI’s view of the project, and (2) by throwing in directives to run subagents that keep the main agent aligned (e.g. code review agents), it gets nudged back on course a surprisingly high percentage of the time.

    • ishsup 11 hours ago
      yeah that’s a fair experience, we’ve seen similar when leaving Claude unsupervised for too long. The way we use Omnara, it’s more about staying in the loop for those moments when Claude needs clarification or a quick decision, so you can keep it on track without babysitting the terminal the whole time
  • smithclay 15 hours ago
    For the skeptics: using Claude Code from your phone is kind of great. Think this sort of solution is excellent once you've figured out a good workflow.

    Open-sourced my own duct-taped way* of doing this with free/open-source stuff a few weeks ago, recommend you give this kind of Claude on the go workflow a try during your next flight delay / train ride / etc.

    *https://github.com/smithclay/claudetainer

    • dnh44 11 hours ago
      If you make iOS apps you can also set up an Xcode Cloud pipeline so the result gets pushed to your phone via TestFlight.
    • kmansm27 15 hours ago
      Awesome stuff, mobile coding (imo mobile everything) is definitely the future
      • ishsup 11 hours ago
        yeah especially as models get better
  • sawyerjhood 13 hours ago
    This looks super slick! The mobile first coding agent workflow really feels like a fundamental shift in how developers work. It is sort of like Rich Hickey's hammock driven development taken to its ideal form. While you are on the go and have an idea, rather than writing it down in your todo list you can kick off an agent and have a prototype PR waiting for you next time you are at your desk.

    Once you start running coding agents async you realize that prototyping becomes much cheaper and it is easier to test out product ideas and land on the right solution to a problem much quicker.

    I've been coding like this for the past few months and can't imagine life without being able to invoke a coding agent from anywhere. I got so excited by it we started building https://www.terragonlabs.com so we could do this for any coding agent that crops up.

  • herval 9 hours ago
    This is neat but I gotta ask - what’s your moat against Anthropic just launching the same thing a week from now?

    Codex already works from your phone, I imagine Anthropic is well on its way to ship Claude Code across devices/apps too..

    • myflash13 8 hours ago
      Why do calendar apps and todo list apps make millions even though you have Google Calendar and Apple Reminders?

      There are plenty of opportunities for building a good product even if the big platform copies you. For example in this case I can think of an easy differentiator: make it work with other agents and IDEs, not just Claude Code. Plenty of other ways to specialize by adding features not included in vanilla big company products.

      • herval 8 hours ago
        Which calendar app makes millions exactly? If you’re talking Calendly, they had multiple years of headstart against Google (plus the pandemic boom). Basic calendaring apps don’t really make for VC-backable business.

        That said, I don’t think that comparison makes sense anyway. The barrier of entry on AI apps (and by competitors cloning apps with AI) is enough these days that you can guarantee anything minimally viable will be cloned immediately.

        Plus some of these features are quite literally the roadmap of OpenAI/Google/Anthropic. Competing with giants building the exact product they’re actively building rarely works. Anthropic isn’t “copying you” - they’re literally building this.

        • myflash13 8 hours ago
          Doesn’t have to be VC backable. Todoist is the classic bootstrapped todo list app making north of $20 million a year. Fantastical for iOS and a lot of cute calendar apps make very good incomes for lifestyle business.

          Sure Anthropic might have this on the roadmap and release next week. But apps like this can literally make hundreds of thousands of dollars in a few weeks — well worth the effort for a few months work I would say.

          • herval 7 hours ago
            Todoist is a huge outlier. They had an early mover advantage (it was one of the first mobile todo apps). A few other Todo players also managed to keep an audience, even after Apple and Google rolled their (still half baked in 2025) alternatives - multiple years later.

            It’s a very, very different story.

            I’m obviously not saying anyone should stop building apps or dismissing this or any other app from being potentially successful. It’s just a fundamentally different scenario than the early days of mobile, particularly for thin LLM wrappers

  • nicewood 2 hours ago
    Nice one, I thought I need this and wanted to build something like that too couple weeks ago.

    But the more I worked with Claude, I felt like *I am the bottleneck* and not the waiting times. Also waiting for more than (really max) 5 minutes is for my features just not happening.

    I think remote claude code is nice if you start a completely new app with loads of features that will take a long time OR for checking pull requests (the remote execution is more important here)

  • JyB 10 hours ago
    > I can start a Claude Code session and if I need to leave my laptop, I can respond from my phone anywhere

    I've been looking for this for some time now. This is amazing if it delivers.

  • rgbrgb 16 hours ago
    Cool. I'm a vibetunnel user and this looks like a better UI. However, I like that vibetunnel keeps all of my data local. Does this have remote access to my codebase and session? I'm guessing that's hard here because of the notifications? Or do I misunderstand how the data flows?
    • kmansm27 16 hours ago
      You're correct, that's one pro for vibetunnel/mobile SSH clients - they're a direct connection to your machine. For our platform, the messages flow through our server, which enables some use cases like push notifications and easier setup/reliability, but for a tradeoff of the data not being local.
  • DigitalDopamine 7 hours ago
    nice launch. the "pick up the same claude code session on your phone bit" resonates. I’ve wanted that too, but with self-hosting and a few creature comforts.

    I hacked a tiny web client around the claude CLI that I use daily:

    https://github.com/sunpix/claude-code-web

    - works on the go via PWA

    - voice input (whiser) auto reading messages TTS

    - drag and drop images with preview/remove

    - hotkeys

    • simon_rider 6 hours ago
      Ah that's neat, whisper hooked up like that would be handy in the car when I can’t type
  • robbomacrae 15 hours ago
    Like others (smithclay, sst/opencode) have said about aiming for a similar feature, I had plans to make a mobile app for Talkito[0][1] which primarily adds voice TTS/ASR and WhatsApp/slack interactions to Claude Code.

    This looks like exactly what I was envisioning so congrats on getting out there first! LMK if you want to add voice controls to this.

    [0]: https://github.com/robdmac/talkito

    [1]: https://talkito.com

    • TheTaytay 7 hours ago
      Talkito looks very slick! You added voice, sms, and WhatsApp, which I’ve just been wishing for. I’ll have to give this a shot!
      • robbomacrae 2 hours ago
        Thank you! The SMS is feature is untested so I don't mention it much. I think unlike the others (TTS/ASR/Slack/Whatsapp) SMS will require a paid account on twilio. Twilio can’t absorb the carriers network costs for free like they can with WhatsApp sandboxing. If it's critical for you id be happy to work with you to get that feature working properly!
    • kmansm27 14 hours ago
      This is cool! We've had a bunch of people request for voice control, they've used the native keyboard voice control for now, but it's not great at getting contextual recognition of words (especially technical things). It's on the roadmap, so I'll reach out when we get that started!
    • robbomacrae 14 hours ago
      Also looking more closely at yours I notice the Apache 2.0 license but that doesn't prevent a company taking your work and running it as a SAAS which seems to be how you yourself want to monetize. For this reason I went with AGPL-3.0 so I recommend looking into that.
      • kmansm27 14 hours ago
        Good point, I'll take a look at that
  • throwup238 14 hours ago
    Congratulations on the launch!

    Main question I have since your backend is open source, is there a way to self host and point the mobile app at our own servers?

    • kmansm27 14 hours ago
      Thanks! We're going to make the mobile app and frontend open source too, I just haven't had the time to do it properly yet. Maybe I can email you the source code - if you're interested you can email me at [email protected]. Otherwise, we'll open source the mobile/frontend in the coming weeks and you can check it out there.
  • stavros 12 hours ago
    These tools sound like a good idea, but then I try them and they always fall over at the same place: My problem isn't running the agents, I have an SSH terminal that supports tabs on my phone. My problem is QAing and reviewing the code all these agents write, and none of these tools solves that.
    • JyB 10 hours ago
      Assuming you're using GitHub or similar, make pushing branches and creating PRs part of their prompts, and review on the GitHub app or equivalent? Seem like an orthogonal problem to those LLMs tools.
      • stavros 9 hours ago
        I can review the code that way, but not the outputs. I could have it write tests and run them, but that's usually fiddly for web apps.
        • johntash 9 hours ago
          If it's a webapp, have the CI pipeline create a temporary env and deploy the branch to it?
          • stavros 8 hours ago
            Yeah, that's basically the only solution I can think of, but requires quite a bit of infra work. I guess that's what LLMs are for, huh...
        • myflash13 7 hours ago
          Checkout the PRs to your local machine and test it there?
          • stavros 7 hours ago
            That kind of defeats the purpose of running the agents in the cloud, no?
  • nickfixit 10 hours ago
    This is awesome. Should have android. This is why I use termius and ssh. I can be in and out of anything with Claude. Just a large pain in the ass with input lag and terminals with the keyboard.
    • johntash 9 hours ago
      Try mosh and see if it helps you with input lag issues. Iirc it processes or buffers the input locally instead of waiting for the server to respond, so it feels faster.
  • bigwheels 11 hours ago
    Can it control Codex, too? The ability to switch between Claude, Qwen, Gemini, Codex, and sst/OpenCode *CLIs would be pretty incredible!

    * All of these are trivially installable via `npm install -g ...`

    • naiv 11 hours ago
      at the end he says "not just claude code. any agents"
  • Depurator 14 hours ago
    I'm just using claude-code on termux on my s42 ultra with some mcp tools i built in rust - which thus runs on aarch64-linux-android. Very handy to get rust analyzer, webdriver, github cli etc on your phone, so i can get some small stuff done during commute.
    • rubslopes 12 hours ago
      Me too, using Claude Code with Termux. I rented a VPS and now I'm sshing into it. Great experience!
  • bingdig 14 hours ago
    Very cool! Would love an integration with Twilio / phone and text-to-voice and voice-to-text.

    Start an agent, receive a call when a response from the user is needed, provide instruction, repeat.

    Use case would be to continue the work hands-free while biking or driving.

    • TheTaytay 7 hours ago
      A fellow posted his project called “talkito” that is close to this.
      • robbomacrae 2 hours ago
        Thanks for the mention! Yeah I first wanted Claude Code to be more hands free when doing things around the house so added voice.. then I thought it would be great if we could go out and get messages read out by Siri on the AirPods when there is an update, and reply that way, so I added WhatsApp support specifically for this purpose. I'd be down for adding a phone option or Signal alternative but I'd be curious to know if the WhatsApp feature solves your problem? https://github.com/robdmac/talkito
  • mattnewton 9 hours ago
    Love the idea*!

    Currently trying it and the output from claude code output doesn't appear on my phone though? Sometimes it outputs nothing, sometimes it outputs what appears to be a bunch of xml tags for tool calls I am assuming are meant to be parsed. But the notifications are working well which is nice.

    (* though I have some security concerns about this as juicy target vs just rolling my own)

  • faramarz 14 hours ago
    Lneat! My use case is swayed towards the none wrapper paths so the telemetry is contained or non-existent.

    Basically, tunnelling to my mac so I can run my local mistral workflow/git/project builds yet with a gui like yours.

  • myflash13 8 hours ago
    This sort of thing should be run locally over something like tailscale or ngrok - direct peer to peer communication between phone and laptop. No way I'm sending my code to your central servers.

    For now I'll just stick with a VNC solution for my macbook.

  • Isharmla 7 hours ago
    Cool! I'm working on a similar personal tool for GeminiCLI.
  • asar 11 hours ago
    I agree with the general sentiment here that this is the future of coding for a lot of tasks. But in terms of a business case for your product I'm really struggling to see how this beats Claude code action? Which integrates directly with GitHub, at no additional cost, and I can use an oauth token to use my subscription.
    • ishsup 11 hours ago
      Hey Ishaan here (co-founder), totally fair point, claude code actions are great for GitHub workflows. We see Omnara fitting in when you want to keep a live session going across devices (terminal ↔ web ↔ mobile) and outside GitHub too
      • asar 10 hours ago
        I see, thanks for explaining and congrats on the launch! After re-reading the description, the ability to use other frameworks might become a USP too.

        Just a random remark, what's annoying and a pain point in my workflow are definitely proper development environments for agents . Not just runtimes but also managing secrets etc. Maybe an avenue to explore and use in marketing copy.

  • lumost 11 hours ago
    Can you support GitHub code spaces and GitHub copilot? Easiest workflow for me is code spaces/copilot given the pricing and ease of making new dev environments.

    This would be a killer product in this setting as copilot is quite “chatty”

  • nickelbob 14 hours ago
    This is awesome, I was trying to build this as well. I'd love a windows version if that's on the roadmap.
    • kmansm27 14 hours ago
      Thanks! There's nothing inherently macos-specific about this, I just need to get my hands on a Windows machine to test it out in case there's some path issues. I'll try to do that soon and update you
  • KaoruAoiShiho 12 hours ago
    What does the privacy situation look like? Do you get to see what we're working on?
    • kmansm27 6 hours ago
      Technically, all the messages are stored in our DB (anything that's visible in our dashboard is stored in our DB), so if we wanted to, we could see the messages flowing through Omnara. If you delete a chat instance, the messages are deleted immediately, no soft deleting.

      But yes this is a good point, it's a big reason we open sourced our backend. We've thought about doing client side encryption before sending messages to our servers, but that probably won't be implemented in the near-term.

  • Aarostotle 14 hours ago
    This is lovely, I was literally wishing for this two nights ago. I'll give it a try. Good luck!
  • pzo 13 hours ago
    Landing page slow, flashes and refresh automatically after few seconds in iOS brave
    • kmansm27 6 hours ago
      Thanks for mentioning this, we'll look into it
  • macrolime 12 hours ago
    Seems copying text in the app doesn't work? In that case it is useless. A quick way to copy an entire chat and a selection messages is a requirement for me to be able to use it.
    • kmansm27 5 hours ago
      We've noticed that using terminal emulators (e.g. warp, alacritty) lead to issues with pasting things into Omnara, do you happen to be using a terminal emulator? If so we can look into it. But with the native terminal, pasting should work in both the terminal and the web/mobile apps
      • macrolime 3 hours ago
        I mean copying from the iOS app.
  • xetxov 14 hours ago
    This method of devleopment is definitely the future.

    I've been having a lot of success with Google's Jules (https://jules.google.com/) which has the added benefit of running the agent on their VMs and being able to execute scripts (such as unit tests, linting, playwright, etc). The website works great on mobile and has notification support.

    With the Google AI Pro subscription you get 100 tasks a day(!) included, it's a fantastic deal.

  • mmun 9 hours ago
    Nice work.

    Is anyone working on collaborative Claude Code-ing with coworkers in Slack/Discord?

  • abe-101 15 hours ago
    sst/opencode has plans to build a mobile app.

    https://github.com/sst/opencode/issues/176

    I recall watching a stream where the authors imagined instructing the agent to do a piece of work and then getting notified on your phone when it is done or being able to ask it to iterate on your phone.

    • kmansm27 15 hours ago
      Oh interesting, we've gotten some requests for supporting opencode as well. Opencode would much easier to work with than Claude Code since the backend and frontend are separate and open source. Maybe we can beat them to the mobile support :)
  • franze 12 hours ago
    i run claude code on a hetzner server with a directive that 5 times per hour it trigger a "continue, if dome read claude.md and continue from there" after the 5th time i get a notification email that it has nothing more to do. works ok.
    • ishsup 11 hours ago
      Nice setup, clever way to keep it moving without much manual intervention. Curious, do you review the logs in between, or is it more of a yolo “continue” each time?
  • decide1000 14 hours ago
    Pretty cool, but where is the Android app?
    • kmansm27 14 hours ago
      Coming very soon, it's been a long process with the Android store. Thank god for react native and expo
      • eclipxe 10 hours ago
        Can't wait to try would love to test this - can you share an apk?
  • jama211 13 hours ago
    Ok now this is genius, and how I’ve wanted AI agents to work for a while now. Gonna try this out!
  • donbox 13 hours ago
    This looks awesome. Will this work when using Claude Code via VSCode.
    • kmansm27 6 hours ago
      I know one of our users is able to use it with Claude Code via Cursor, so I assume that it's able to work the same way with VSCode
  • serf 7 hours ago
    this is nice. I was using byobu/screen and an android client w/ ddns. this is a much cleaner solution that I wish I had when I was using the claude-code seriously.

    ...but as I will now say at the end of every claude-centric post I make until a CSR gets back to me : I'm now approaching a week of zero CSR responses to a very valid question about a $200.00usd/mo account -- so I hope Omnara eventually matures to the point of supporting many different AI provider options; even if claude-code is the soup du jour.

    Having fantastic tooling and effort around a company that is disinterested in its' userbase is a lot like the mental anguish I feel when I consider all of the tools and systems that were at one point reliant on now-gone Google services. What a waste. I'm sure the people involved learned plenty and that it was a personal growth experience for them, but boy do I hate seeing good code thrown away so routinely.

    I have a bit of a feeling like that around claude-code/cursor-specific things right now. It reminds me of the work I put into Google Wave a hundred years ago.

  • user3939382 7 hours ago
    termius and tmux I don’t see the point
  • colinmegill 14 hours ago
    Right on
  • k2xl 15 hours ago
    Been using cursors background agents to do this via mobile app. I was expecting a mobile app by anthropic by now. Wonder what will happen to this project when that happens?
    • kmansm27 14 hours ago
      Really cool, I actually haven't met many people using cursor background agents. I do think Anthropic is working on a web app for Claude Code (saw it in some thread somewhere), so I'm sure they're also working on a mobile app. In that case, the value for Omnara + Claude Code diminishes, but we're able to support any agent, so if every company has their own app, but a user can use all the same agents from a single platform, hopefully they'll choose the single platform.
  • jacooper 13 hours ago
    It annoys me that this isn't available on android. I'm looking for an open source replit alternative. The closest I got is to manage github coding agent with preview environments. Bolt.new doesn't work on mobile AFAIK.
    • ishsup 11 hours ago
      we’ve been trying hard to get the Android version out, Google’s been giving us a tough time before approving it for the Play Store. I can send you an internal app link if you’d like; just share your email (I’m at [email protected])
  • globular-toast 16 hours ago
    So you've reinvented SSH+screen except slower and much less flexible?
    • dang 15 hours ago
      "Don't be snarky."

      "Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

      https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

      Ask questions out of curiosity. Don't cross-examine.

      https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

    • kmansm27 16 hours ago
      I'd say it's more flexible! At least we're trying to head in that direction, since the SDK allows you to hook up any agent to our platform, not just CLI agents. And eventually we want people to be able to add their own frontend components for their agents, which would make the experience more custom than a terminal UI. Although yes, if you just want a 1:1 CLI agent on your phone, then mobile SSH clients might make more sense.