Loopsy, a way for terminals and AI agents on different machines to talk
Details
- External ID
- 47973093
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Loopsy, a way for terminals and AI agents on different machines to talk
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- May 1, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 58
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8497576736672051
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
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.
Enrichment
- Theme
- Claude integrations and coding agents
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Communication
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- inter-process communication for distributed ai agents
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A local network agent and command runner across machines relies on basic peer networking (mDNS/WebSocket/HTTP) and shell command execution, which is straightforward to vibe-code.
Discussion
12 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: CodeNomad, Tailscale, OpenCode (OC)
Concerns raised: No file locking primitive, only task queue coordination, Unclear which agent has control of file at any moment, Conflicts when two agents write to same file simultaneously, Dependence on Cloudflare for relay, Lacks true P2P encryption compared to Tailscale
Feature requests: Expose Loopsy as an MCP server, Self-hosted relay option instead of Cloudflare dependency, File locking mechanism for editing control, P2P encryption support
Competitors
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Attention rank: #29 of 167 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 182 days after the earliest competitor.
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