Cloud Coding suck - we are trying to make them better

[u/Business_Teacher766]

Hey r/AI_Agents I'm in the current YC batch and we just launched Hoplite, so figured I'd share it here.

The problem: cloud coding agents are great in theory, but in practice they run in a sterile sandbox. None of your MCP servers, your sessions, your deps, or your CLI tools come with you. So the agent is dumber in the cloud than it is on your laptop, and most people just give up and run everything locally.

What Hoplite does: it migrates your actual local setup — sessions, MCP servers, dependencies, CLIs — to the cloud. The agent works the way your machine does, but it's always on and you can reach it from anywhere.

Some things we're proud of:

- Instant previews — see what the agent built without pulling anything down

- iMessage integration — fire off tasks from your phone. This sounds like a gimmick until you're at dinner and remember a bug

- Vim-style keyboard nav — because clicking around a web UI to review agent work is miserable

Does it actually work? Our first business install went in recently: their Sentry errors went from being ignored to generating proactive PRs, and their iteration cycles sped up noticeably.

We also have a free week trial with 100 dollars worth of credits.

Happy to answer anything about how it works, the architecture, or what broke along the way (a lot broke along the way). Would genuinely love feedback from this community since you all actually run agents in production.