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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 moving from CC's Max plan at $100, adding $20 makes me wanna just hack an alternative. Maybe I'm just cheap.

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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."

Drop Box is free though.

they're free up to a limit, just like us!

I migrated away from dropbox to seafile. 2gb free plan to now unlimited =) total: 3 hours with claude code.

Why is it funny? Is Dropbox supposed to be some kind of success? Their stock is down -16.72% from IPO seven years ago.

Yeah, it's only at a 6.355B market cap, complete failure!

You couldn't vibe-code Dropbox in an hour though...

You wouldn’t vibe-code a car...

hmm, i wonder how long it would take nowadays actually

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.

Dropbox is not a tool solely for developers though.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

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.

HN never disappoints!

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