Why the founders are betting early on a mobile IDE

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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