Run your business on a self-hosted company OS of Claude Code and Codex agents

A founder built, and runs his business on, a self-hosted company OS where Claude Code and Codex agents work in departments.

By Dimitris (dimitrismrtzs) on Hacker News · Posted Sep 9, 2026 · Added Oct 16, 2026

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Engagement: 50 HN points15 comments · fetched Oct 15, 2026

What they did

Dimitris built OtoDock, a multi-tenant app combining Claude Code, Cowork-style work and cloud sessions that runs on your Anthropic or OpenAI subscription. He uses it to run his business.

How it went

It is open source and free to self-host.

Worth knowing

You maintain the infrastructure yourself.

Builder recipe

Our own starting point, written from the source. Adapt it to your setup.

Stack

oto-dock
Claude or OpenAI subscription
A server

Steps

Write down the manual process step by step.
Automate the deterministic parts with plain workflow steps or scripts.
Use the model only where judgment is needed, with confidence checks.
Add alerts and a human fallback.

Starter prompt

You are the Marketing department agent. Each Monday, review last week’s metrics in /data, propose 3 experiments, and post them for my approval.

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Read the original

Hacker News: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49630606 ↗ (opens in new tab) Sep 9, 2026 · 50 points, 15 comments (fetched 2026-10-15)

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