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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 m

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.

redrove 7mo ago
Agreed. In a post-CC world anyone can build this for themselves so easily. Especially since their entire supposed customer base already uses these tools to begin with.
kmansm27 7mo ago
Yeah that makes sense. I personally feel like the tailscale + terminal emulator solution is pretty limited compared to Omnara's interface, and there's also 0 hassle of maintaining anything on your own with Omnara. You can try out Omnara for free, and see if you like it before paying! 10 sessions can get you pretty far, and there's no limit on the session length.
- lalo2302 7mo ago
  I dug on the product a bit further and it seems it includes remote sandboxes? Then I understand the pricing, it makes sense. At a first glance I understood all sessions would be created at the local machine. My niche use case having a mac mini on 24/7 at home would make this interesting. That’s why I mentioned the cheaper price. Looks like a good product. Everyone is afraid of the grind, keep going!
GraffitiTim 7mo ago
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."
- blahblahson 7mo ago
  Drop Box is free though.
  - cmsparks 7mo ago
    they're free up to a limit, just like us!
  - gverrilla 7mo ago
    I migrated away from dropbox to seafile. 2gb free plan to now unlimited =) total: 3 hours with claude code.
- koakuma-chan 7mo ago
  Why is it funny? Is Dropbox supposed to be some kind of success? Their stock is down -16.72% from IPO seven years ago.
  - mfkp 7mo ago
    Yeah, it's only at a 6.355B market cap, complete failure!
- saberience 7mo ago
  You couldn't vibe-code Dropbox in an hour though...
  - actionfromafar 7mo ago
    You wouldn’t vibe-code a car...
  - gregjw 7mo ago
    hmm, i wonder how long it would take nowadays actually
- ywvcbk 7mo ago
  Exception in those days it took a lot of time and effort to build software and you couldn't just do it by answering a few multi choice questions on a phone.
ciaranmca 7mo ago
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 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
fragmede 7mo ago
You are cheap! So am I! We're developers. Just ask Claude to use the Claude chrome extension MCP and have it setup Tailscale for you. Not to be rude, but we as developers have to learn not to smell our own farts and think they're gold. I had Claude shit out a shell script that's useful for me, and for people like me, but holy hell, that does not a startup charging $20/month make. Welcome to the new economy.
busch_j 7mo ago
Facts, I have built something myself doing this (granted I am a software eng) and pretty much anyone with claude code / codex could do it in a couple hours and you can tailor it to your exact workflow. The apps that do this are an easy money grab though, I have a seen some total trash ones that still rank high on IOS store because people still want this so I am sure they will get some subs.
petervandijck 7mo ago
HN never disappoints!

redrove 7mo ago

Agreed. In a post-CC world anyone can build this for themselves so easily. Especially since their entire supposed customer base already uses these tools to begin with.

kmansm27 7mo ago

Yeah that makes sense. I personally feel like the tailscale + terminal emulator solution is pretty limited compared to Omnara's interface, and there's also 0 hassle of maintaining anything on your own with Omnara. You can try out Omnara for free, and see if you like it before paying! 10 sessions can get you pretty far, and there's no limit on the session length.

lalo2302 7mo ago
I dug on the product a bit further and it seems it includes remote sandboxes? Then I understand the pricing, it makes sense. At a first glance I understood all sessions would be created at the local machine. My niche use case having a mac mini on 24/7 at home would make this interesting. That’s why I mentioned the cheaper price. Looks like a good product. Everyone is afraid of the grind, keep going!

GraffitiTim 7mo ago

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."

blahblahson 7mo ago
Drop Box is free though.
- cmsparks 7mo ago
  they're free up to a limit, just like us!
- gverrilla 7mo ago
  I migrated away from dropbox to seafile. 2gb free plan to now unlimited =) total: 3 hours with claude code.
koakuma-chan 7mo ago
Why is it funny? Is Dropbox supposed to be some kind of success? Their stock is down -16.72% from IPO seven years ago.
- mfkp 7mo ago
  Yeah, it's only at a 6.355B market cap, complete failure!
saberience 7mo ago
You couldn't vibe-code Dropbox in an hour though...
- actionfromafar 7mo ago
  You wouldn’t vibe-code a car...
- gregjw 7mo ago
  hmm, i wonder how long it would take nowadays actually
ywvcbk 7mo ago
Exception in those days it took a lot of time and effort to build software and you couldn't just do it by answering a few multi choice questions on a phone.

ciaranmca 7mo ago

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 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

fragmede 7mo ago

You are cheap! So am I! We're developers. Just ask Claude to use the Claude chrome extension MCP and have it setup Tailscale for you. Not to be rude, but we as developers have to learn not to smell our own farts and think they're gold. I had Claude shit out a shell script that's useful for me, and for people like me, but holy hell, that does not a startup charging $20/month make. Welcome to the new economy.

busch_j 7mo ago

Facts, I have built something myself doing this (granted I am a software eng) and pretty much anyone with claude code / codex could do it in a couple hours and you can tailor it to your exact workflow. The apps that do this are an easy money grab though, I have a seen some total trash ones that still rank high on IOS store because people still want this so I am sure they will get some subs.

petervandijck 7mo ago

HN never disappoints!