Chatcode
Remote Control for Claude Code and Codex
Details
- External ID
- 48396686
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Chatcode
- Website domain
- chatcode.dev
- Launched
- June 4, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 9
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5484972677595629
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Hey HN,what I wanted to build here is a proper universal layer for persisted agentic sessions, that could be seamlessly interacted both via web and a messenger (Telegram). I really like what's done so far and would be nice to hear some feedback from you.The interesting thing is that I started to use Chatcode during its development as soon it was possible, so used this tool to build itself.I know that there could be trust/privacy concerns, because it relies on a gateway that you need to install on your machine in order to work, but: 1. You can use it on any machine, just have some test VPS for that 2. I really believe you will love it as soon as it fits your needs! And it's free to start BTW.Anyways, looking forward to your questions/suggestions.
Enrichment
- Theme
- Claude integrations and coding agents
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- remote control interface for claude and codex
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Chatcode provides a web terminal interface (using xterm.js) and Telegram bot relaying to a headless CLI session via SSH or websockets, both of which are standard patterns easily built with AI coding assistants.
Discussion
14 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Claude's native remote control, Open-source alternatives (unspecified), metabot, Uber and Bolt (for similar purposes)
Concerns raised: Adoption without open-source or large company backing, Security risks: LLMs finding vulnerabilities faster than fixes, Companies won't allow third-party access to chat data for startups, Not suitable for isolated testing without VPS isolation, Similar open-source projects already exist
Feature requests: Support for multiple harnesses/integrations, Open-source the code for better adoption
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 437 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #206 of 438 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 218 days after the earliest competitor.
- Cascade Chat · hn · 2026-07-14 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- We built a way for Claude Code to join meetings like a real teammate · hn · 2026-04-23 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Vibe Remote · hn · 2026-03-18 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- ChatML · hn · 2026-03-09 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Cockpit for you Claude Code agents in Rust · hn · 2026-08-01 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Claude-codex-proxy · hn · 2026-04-19 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Reference MCP · hn · 2026-06-29 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Clauder · hn · 2026-01-22 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.46
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