Your coding agent shouldn't die when your laptop sleeps

A developer built and open-sourced Podbay, a tool that keeps Claude Code sessions alive by running them on a remote server instead of a laptop, so sessions survive when the laptop sleeps. The tool is source-available under BSL 1.1, installable via one command on self-hosted hardware, and uses the official Claude Code CLI with an existing subscription.

For about a month, I did the dumbest thing in my dev career: I carried an open laptop around my apartment like a newborn. I'd kick off a long Claude Code run — a refactor, a test suite, a migration — and then I couldn't close the lid. Close the lid, the machine sleeps, the session dies, the context is gone. So the laptop came with me. To the kitchen. To the couch. Balanced on the arm of a chair at dinner. There had to be something better than "keep the MacBook awake forever." It turns out there wasn't — so I built it, and last week I made it source-available. Anthropic recently shipped Remote Control for Claude Code, and it's genuinely good: kick off a task in your terminal, pick it up from your phone. If "I want to check on my session from the couch" is your problem, it's solved now. But look at where the session lives. It still runs on YOUR machine. Remote control RECONNECTS you to a session — it can't keep the machine that session runs on awake. Laptop sleeps, session stops. RC just greets you when everything is back. Remote control gives you access. What I kept needing was uptime. The fix is boring in the best way: move the session onto a machine that never sleeps, and make every device — laptop, desktop, phone — just a client. You come back to results, not to a resume button. The 1 thing people told me while I was building this: "I'm not putting my coding agent AND my secrets in someone else's cloud." Fair. So the whole thing is now source-available: one command installs it on hardware you control — a home server, a NUC, a $5 VPS. It auto-provisions HTTPS even without a domain , and it runs the official Claude Code CLI on your existing Claude subscription. No API key, no token markup, and nothing leaves your box that you didn't send. License honesty, because this crowd deserves it: it's BSL 1.1 — free to self-host, converts to Apache-2.0. I know BSL isn't OSI-approved open source. It's the compromise I could live with as a solo founder; happy to argue about it in the comments. It's early alpha. The repo is github.com/Podbay-Cloud/podbay https://github.com/Podbay-Cloud/podbay — the README has the one-command install. If you've solved this differently — tmux on a VPS, a homelab k8s shrine, sheer stubbornness — I genuinely want to hear the setup. And if you try mine and it breaks, tell me how. That's the fastest way to make it good.