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- Why would I want a service for this when I could easily run such a discovery service myself? Why not just release that tool to users? SyncThing offers its discovery server for self-hosting as an example.
Oh, right, this is how we monetize in 2026. Nevermind.
by ahknight - It would be good if they released a good mobile app I'm have been using termux and moshi and claude code. Termux and moshi provide the full functionality of the terminal but it gets clunky sometimes and with claude code you don't get the full functionality and a lot of stuff are missing from the tuiby kelvinjps10
- I'm hoping someone can explain why this is interesting.
I get that Herdr wants investors to give them money to own developers' coding sessions, but the value proposition ("Walk away and they keep working. Come back from any machine and they're where you left them.") seems like a miss since it's so easy to do that without them.
I'm surely missing something.
by CharlesW - It’s a good feature. However I am not convinced that the terminal/ssh abstraction will remain optimal when you orchestrate a swarm of workers across multiple machines.
Running via ssh is great when your machines are pets that have local state. I don’t find it to be that useful when I have more than two machines that I’m load balancing agent sessions across.
Just for example, a nice feature from the Codex app; if you edit a markdown file on your remote, and click on the link to the edited .md file, it just opens the file in the local app, and you can view the rendered form too. If I’m working on my local machine this isn’t a win vs. opening the file in Obsidian / IDE. But it’s way easier than manually viewing the file over SSH (unless you just want to look at the raw text version). Similar applies to html files.
I think it’s more likely the Fly Sprites or Claude/Codex sandbox model will win as we move to swarms. If I’m not watching the actual harness output, there’s not a great reason to attach a pty.
by theptip - Worth giving onorca.dev a try. That already supports this with nice UI. Also atcyrus.com is interesting to delegate tasks too.by bibstha
- Makes sense.
I had always been curious on why Tailscale hasn't creating agent-oriented features. It's obvious to me that Tailscale is at the best position (AFAIK) to capitalize on agents demand.
Their connectivity product is unique. And it's a natural fit to connecting long-running agents instance across the Internet.
- I’ve been running codex’s remote app server as a systemd service for the last several months, and before that opencode remote. It’s very easy to switch between my phone and desktop app.
I haven’t tried herdr yet, but maybe it’s just not targeted at me?
The real problem I have with the remote codex setup is when it needs to authenticate as me. I sort of solved this for sudo and ssh with this [1], but I think something like this could be integrated deeper into the harness
- Again it bears repeating [0] that if you don't pay for your tools and expect open source maintainers to do it for free, then they will most certainly take funding from VCs and angels instead.
Now they have raised $6M in funding. [1]
Do not be surprised to realize that open source does not pay their bills.
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