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Openbase - Manage your team of AI agents by voice, from anywhere

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Openbase lets you manage a team of AI coding agents by voice, from anywhere; no screen, no desk. AI agents can work async, but supervising them still pulls you back to a laptop. OpenBase fixes that. Dispatch tasks, steer agents mid-work, and approve changes just by talking. The agents write code, control your computer, open PRs, commit and push; you stay in control from your phone. Works across providers and syncs to your machine, so you pick up at your desk right where you left off.

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Hey Product Hunt šŸ‘‹ I'm Lucas, co-founder of OpenBase. We built this because we live in Claude Code and Codex all day, and kept hitting the same wall: the agents could keep working while we were away, but supervising them meant going back to a laptop. Every time. So we built the thing we wanted; a way to run our agents by voice, from anywhere. You talk, the agents build, you approve the important calls out loud. Kick off a feature from a walk, steer it, approve the PR, all without a screen. It works across providers and syncs back to your machine so nothing's lost when you sit down. It's open source (AGPL-3.0) and in open beta today. Try it out here:

Ā Congrats looks awesome , i'll check

How you handle approvals for changes that could affect multiple files. Is there a way to quickly review the important parts before saying yes? I'd also love to see short voice summaries of what each agent finished since the last check-in.

Freya's question is the real crux of this, voice works fine for quick single file changes but a diff that spans multiple files is hard to review by ear alone, so I'd want to know if there's a fallback view for those moments rather than forcing everything through audio. The sync back to your machine so nothing's lost is a solid detail too, since a lot of remote agent tools have a rough handoff back to the desk. Given it's AGPL-3.0 and open beta, are you expecting most early users to self host or run it against your hosted version at openbase.cloud.

Congratulations on the launch, Lucas. Voice-based supervision is an interesting answer to the problem of agents working asynchronously while humans remain tied to a screen. How do you handle approval boundaries for sensitive actions such as commits, pushes, and pull requests?

Love the idea! I even hoped for something quite similar about a week and a half ago while at work. The 'no screen, no desk' part hit me harder than you probably intended, because I'm not a developer.

I work in a bakery. Factory rules mean my phone stays in the locker room, and my hands are busy for the whole shift. In the week before I launched my own app, some of my best thinking happened while I was working, ideas, prompts, things I wanted to try, all of it fully formed in my head and completely stranded until I clocked out or took a break. I kept thinking how good it would be to just talk it into a headset and have the work already moving by the time I got home.

The honest reason I haven't tried agents yet is different from the reason you're solving for. It isn't that supervising pulls me back to a laptop. It's that I don't understand them well enough to trust one unsupervised, and I'm afraid of something getting deleted or overwritten without me noticing until much later.

So my question is about the approval layer. When an agent is working and I'm not looking at a screen, what actually stops a destructive change from going through, and how much does it explain out loud before it commits? For someone like me, that answer matters more than the speed.

The idea of kicking off a feature while walking and coming back to a ready PR sounds both extremely useful and slightly dangerous :))

I usually have coding agents running while Iā€™m working on something else, and sometimes I only need to approve a command, correct the direction or quickly check what changed. Being able to do that from my phone instead of going back to the desk every time is actually a good idea. Congrats on the launch!!

Any plans to let teams create reusable voice workflows for common development tasks? That could save a lot of repeated instructions.

Sign me up, this is actually a dream! Hopefully I can find time to download this to try it. I like it because I used to drive around calling my human assistants to help me do work as I was driving long distances. This is really useful for people who drive long distances and are business people or people with work that requires computers. Maybe even artists can use this like music industry people.