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Why the founders are betting early on a mobile IDE

Treena, founded by Camden Hulse and Kollaikal Rupesh, is building a mobile IDE that lets developers start coding agents from scratch on their GitHub repos, with a full workspace including terminal, file tree, and commit history on a phone. The founders are betting early on phone-first agentic development, arguing that the next shift in software work is availability away from the desk, and that waiting until the category is obvious means shipping a clone.

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Why the founders are betting early on a mobile IDE
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Treena's founders are going all-in on phone-first agentic development: start agents from scratch on your repo, full IDE surfaces on mobile, and a future where the laptop is optional.

Camden Hulse & Kollaikal Rupesh

We are betting early, on purpose.

Not on "a nicer chat UI for code." On a mobile IDE where you can start coding agents from scratch on your GitHub repo, with a full workspace on your phone.

That sounds aggressive. It is also where software work is going.

The desk is no longer the only place code happens #

Developers already live on phones for reviews, messages, alerts, and decisions. The missing piece has been a serious place to act: open a repo cold, run an agent, use a terminal, inspect files, review changes, commit, push.

We think that product should exist as a first-class mobile IDE, not as a companion to a laptop that has to stay awake.

What we are building #

Treena is our answer:

Agents from scratch on your repository, started from the phone- A complete IDE experience: terminal, file tree, changes, commit history Model choice, including bring-your-own-key- Cloud compute so the heavy work is not limited by your battery

Phone-first. Laptop optional. Work stays in sync when you do use a bigger screen.

Why bet early #

Every decade, the "real computer" shifts. We believe the next shift for shipping software is availability: being able to fix, build, and ship when you are not at a desk.

Waiting until the category is obvious means shipping a clone. Betting early means defining the category while it is still weird.

Mobile agentic coding still looks weird to a lot of people. That is usually the right time to build.

What "early" looks like for users #

Early means:

  • Waitlist and careful access
  • Strong opinions on the loop (plan vs act, push as the finish line)
  • Room to shape the product with people who feel the pain

If you have ever wanted to start something real on a repo while you only had a phone, you are who we are building for.

Join us while it is still early #

Join the waitlist. Tell us what you would ship first from your pocket.

We are all in on mobile as a real place to build, not a place to wait until you get home.

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