Amika

About Amika

Provision VMs on any cloud or computer, load them with your favorite agent(s), and then remote control the agents from any chat surface, app, or API.

In the maker’s words

Hi Hacker News! My cofounder (Jakub) and I (Dylan) are building amika.dev ( https://www.amika.dev/ ), which provisions multiplayer cloud workstations for coding agents and humans to share. We call these VM workstations "Rigs". Each Rig is loaded with your git repo(s), development environment, and choice of coding agent(s). You and your teammates can steer the same agents from anywhere: the web (desktop or mobile), Slack or Linear, SSH, CLI, API, or apps like Codex and Cursor. Here's a demo: https://youtu.be/o4tLUOb8Vvk We built this after we started running many long-running agent tasks in parallel. Setting up isolated environments was tedious, work stopped when we closed our laptops, and triggering tasks from tools like Sentry or Linear was awkward. Sharing changes meant copy-pasting screenshots or asking each other to check out a branch and restart their dev servers. So, we tried to fi…

Where people found it

• Hacker NewsShow HN: Amika – Multiplayer cloud workstations for coding agents and humans7 points5 comments18 days ago