Show HN: Loopsy, a way for terminals and AI agents on different machines to talk
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I've always had the urge to have my two macbooks communicate. Having one idle while working on the other felt like underutilization of resources. So I built Loopsy. Initially the goal was to do file transfer via local network, and then came running commands. I then tried running coding agents from one machine to the other, and it worked.

Later I figured there should be a better way to continue my claude sessions remotely on my phone from the gym. So I did a cloudflare worker that connects to my local machine. I just need to ensure the laptop is plugged in.

I know I might be reinventing the wheel, but I love that it just works. Still working on E2E encryption. iOS app still in review.

Lemme know your thoughts.

tekacs
5 hours ago
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Even if alternatives and (for now shoddy) 'official solutions' exist, I just like...

> I know I might be reinventing the wheel, but I love that it just works.

Not calling _you_ a learner, just calling out to this -- when teaching people to program I've almost invariably told them to focus on getting something practical working.

I hope that a lot more people get to experience this pattern as a result of LLMs. With enough experimentation I'm excited for what creativity we draw out of people.

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todience
4 hours ago
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Yes, LLMs lower the barrier such that we can skip “can this work” and just skip straight to building.
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sixtyj
3 hours ago
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Well done.

Dependence on Cloudflare… have you considered making it a service that I could install on my own server?

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todience
3 hours ago
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Thank you. The relay is a small websocket server, isolated, so it could be adapted and self hosted. I’ll add it to the roadmap.
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bicepjai
3 hours ago
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We also need to focus on our Roots (alternate for cloud focusing homelab)
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vaporaviatorlab
3 hours ago
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love this. It feels less like “remote control” and more like turning all your machines + agents into one coherent organism.

Curious how you think about the overlap with something like Tailscale, and where you see Loopsy being strictly better or worse.

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esafak
3 hours ago
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A coworker does this with OC + tailscale + https://github.com/NeuralNomadsAI/CodeNomad
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todience
2 hours ago
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Nice. CodeNomad looks solid for opencode. The differences I see, Loopsy works with other coding agents, control from your phone with a native app, and daemons that find each other on a LAN. With Loopsy, agents on different machines can drive each other over a standard protocol, not just human-to-machine. I admit though tailscale gets you true P2P encryption, something I'm still working on for Loopsy.
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