Show HN: Omnara – Run Claude Code from anywhere
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·August 12, 2025henriquegodoy
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.
kmansm27
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
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").
jdironman
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
someone at the leadership is also thinking how he/she can lower head count by removing the agent master
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js4ever
I did exactly that all this summer at the beach with Claude code. Future is already here!
theappsecguy
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.
filoleg
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
What will you have to offer when coding is so easy at that point?
kmansm27
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
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
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
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.
user3939382
termius and tmux I don’t see the point
tqwhite
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.
ishsup
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
corytheboyd
How does this workflow not suffer from the already very well known problem of constant context switching? I feel like anyone who says they can do that and keep it up long-term is lying to me, praying that it all doesn’t come crashing down one day. You can’t deep think any one problem if twenty-nine other problems need to be watched in parallel (which you admit here is a necessity)
mccoyb
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
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
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)
myflash13
Also see solutions which don’t require a central server like Vibetunnel.
smithclay
similar: blink + tailscale + zellij + devcontainers
TheTaytay
smithclay is being polite because this is someone else’s thread, but he wrote this (which I’m literally playing with right now): https://clay.fyi/blog/iphone-claude-code-context-coding/
coyotespike
this chain of replies reminds me of the famous HN comment about Dropbox - a good sign for Omnara!
sailfast
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
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.
kmansm27
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
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.
mccoyb
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
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
Makes sense! Thanks for discussing.
jama211
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
mccoyb
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
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
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
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
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
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.
smithclay
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.
dnh44
If you make iOS apps you can also set up an Xcode Cloud pipeline so the result gets pushed to your phone via TestFlight.
serf
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.
JyB
> 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.
myflash13
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.
sawyerjhood
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.
rgbrgb
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
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.
mattnewton
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)
Hey ya’ll, Ishaan and Kartik here. We're building Omnara (https://omnara.com/), an “agent command center” that lets you launch and control Claude Code from anywhere: terminal, web, or mobile — and easily switch between them.
Run 'pip install omnara && omnara', and you'll have a regular Claude Code session. But you can continue that same session from our web dashboard (https://omnara.com/) or mobile app (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/omnara-ai-command-center/id674...).
Check out a demo here: https://www.loom.com/share/03d30efcf8e44035af03cbfebf840c73.
Before Omnara, we felt stuck watching Claude Code think and write code, waiting 5-10 minutes just to provide input when needed. Now with Omnara, I can start a Claude Code session and if I need to leave my laptop, I can respond from my phone anywhere. Some places I've coded from include my bed, on a walk, in an Uber, while doing laundry, and even on the toilet.
There are many new Claude Code wrappers (e.g., Crystal, Conductor), but none keep the native Claude Code terminal experience while allowing interaction outside the terminal, especially on mobile. On the other hand, tools like Vibetunnel or Termius replicate the terminal experience but lack push notifications, clean UIs for answering questions or viewing git diffs, and easy setup.
We wanted our integration to fully mirror the native Claude Code experience, including terminal output, permissions, notifications, and mode switching. The Claude Code SDK and hooks don't support all of this, so we made a CLI wrapper that parses the session file at ~/.claude/projects and the terminal output to capture user and agent messages. We send these messages to our platform, where they're displayed in the web and mobile apps in real time via SSE. Our CLI wrapper monitors for input from both the Omnara platform and the Claude Code CLI, continuing execution when the user responds from either location. Our entire backend is open source: https://github.com/omnara-ai/omnara.
Omnara isn't just for Claude Code. It's a general framework for any AI agent to send messages and push notifications to humans when they need input. For example, I've been using it as a human-in-the-loop node in n8n workflows for replying to emails. But every Claude Code user we show it to gets excited about that application specifically so that’s why we’re launching that first :)
Omnara is free for up to 10 agent sessions per month, then $9/month for unlimited sessions. Looking forward to your feedback and hearing your thoughts and comments!