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  1. TIPSIO · · focus · HN ↗
    My wife and I have a mobile group/shared bot system where we can make mini apps and collab.

    Anything from baby stuff, groceries, shopping, planning, wine tracker app, simple/fun/useful data things, etc…

    We have Tailscale on our phones and can instantly and privately see without deployment or anything crazy via our secure VPN.

    Think shared Claude Artifacts that don’t live @ Anthropic.

    Tried to first do this with Cloudflare Tunnels (because I love Cloudflare), but between the broken dashboard side of Zero Trust and nightmare of Warp… it was basically impossible to setup. I guess that’s all super enterprise, which seems to be very anti-Cloudflare philosophically to not be able to self do things.

    Will check out Quick Tunnels but I think it’s missing the bigger integration offerings Tailscale has/does still.

    1. cbsks · · focus · HN ↗
      > My wife and I have a mobile group/shared bot system where we can make mini apps and collab.

      > Anything from baby stuff, groceries, shopping, planning, wine tracker app, simple/fun/useful data things, etc…

      Can you elaborate on this? Sounds really cool!

      1. SwamyM · · focus · HN ↗
        Seconded.
        1. [deleted] · · focus · HN ↗

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        2. U4E4 · · focus · HN ↗
          I’m not GP, but run something that’s pretty close to GPs description. It’s been a fun journey to set up.

          The core is chat+audio/video call server running locally on my m3 Mac Studio. Centrifugo has handled the chat concerns very well. LiveKit was a really nice foundation for video and audio calls. There are a few different options for local STT if you want that.

          I used RN via expo for the client and have my friends and family on TestFlight as beta testers. Utility over polish.

          With messages and call transcripts on my own box, I can prompt Claude code or Codex to operate on any message or transcript content. And follow up in chat with a message. I do most of that from Claude or ChatGPT mobile apps via remote control to my sessions running in the box.

          From there, if I give enough of a specc, anything that happens in chat or call transcripts can become an additional custom workspace in the main app. I think GP calls these mini apps. But they’re essentially rich clients under the main app umbrella. There’s other details, but yeah it’s a strange new world. Check my profile and reach out directly if you want.

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