I also built a similar thing a many. And in my experiments (even though iroh is great) iroh took significantly longer to reconnect vs mosh and ethernal. And actually plain old autossh was the best XP for me to close laptop get on traincopen again on mobile Internet.
So eventually I removed everything other than autossh.
Seeing as how many people are building similar things I'd love to share more. Maybe wanna ad each other respectively to the repo's ?I can share some of my benchmark results
For me connect time is not really a concern, it happens once when I open the app. In my project I'm wrapping agents using ACP and presenting an actual GUI, so latency doesn't really have a perceptible impact. Running Claude Code in a console over any kind of remote connection is gonna feel bad.
Rather than for network performance I'm using iroh because I don't want to need a direct network path to the machines running my agents. Yeah I have Tailscale but that's more work to set up and I don't want my app to depend on users have a TS network.
To elaborate on my usecase that herdr didn't so at all the the beginning but still does not do well: I have many vm's in different clouds working on different projects with different secrets that I want to keep isolated ( now also at home lan machines which when im travel get aliased to their tail scale address)
So my biggest requirements are around making isolation between environments convenient but safe from supply chain attacks .
But there is a usecase to have always on listening device transcribing everything. I have a coworker that programmed an app for his apple watch pro so when the button is pressed it starts transcribing the meeting its super super handy for meetings on the go IRL without a google meets room.
^I looked into doing this in android its impossible in the SDK at the moment can't get access to the button.
I have personally build an always on local first setup in my office. It listens for me saying "send this to __employee_name__" and other similar things to do in parallel while i keep typing on my work instead of alt tabbing into w/e slack app that then might have an expired session one must login to again. (Not done but i think there are usecases)
i'm sure people have also heard of that pebble ring Pebble Index 01 many people are super stoked about it and I was about to click buy until i saw A) single use battery no recharging B) 15second timelimit or something else very short.
SO IMO there is a market but its hard to get the product right
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