Hey PH! I'm Shreyas, one of the builders behind Onera Operator.
The frustration was simple: early-stage founders spend a huge chunk of time on work that could be automated. Drafting cold outreach, monitoring competitors, writing tweets, generating reports. But no tool actually does it end-to-end. Most "AI agents" still require you to babysit them.
So we built Onera Operator: an open-source autonomous agent loop that runs growth and ops on a recurring 4-hour cycle. You give it your company URL, it crawls your site, figures out your product and audience, creates a plan, and starts executing. Posting tweets, sending outreach emails, doing competitor research, writing and running code. Then it emails you a morning digest of what it did overnight.
A few things we're specifically proud of:
• The engineer agent can write and execute Python/JS/bash via E2B sandboxed VMs. Not just generate code, but actually run it.
• Crawl4AI handles JS-rendered and anti-bot sites far better than simple fetch scrapers.
• The whole thing is LLM-agnostic. Swap between OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure, or a local Ollama model via one env var.
• It's a proper pnpm monorepo (Next.js 15 frontend + Fastify backend + shared packages), so you can fork a single agent or tool without touching the rest.
What it's not yet: a magic button that replaces human judgment. The planner agent is only as good as its context, and we've seen it produce redundant tasks when the company description is thin. We're actively working on the planning heuristics.
Stack: Next.js 15, Fastify, BullMQ/Redis, PostgreSQL/Prisma, Vercel AI SDK v4, Clerk auth, Crawl4AI, E2B, Resend, Twitter API v2.
GitHub: https://github.com/onera-app/one...
Happy to answer questions about the agent loop design, the tool/agent separation, or any of the infra decisions. Would especially love feedback from anyone who has tried similar autonomous agent setups. We know this space moves fast.
I tried it and was absolutely blown away by how little I had to manage it, and then was again blown away by the fact that when I had to manage it. It was up to me how much I wanted to manage it; I could either nudge it at a high level or micromanage, depending on my style of work. It even inspired me to write an article. Awesome work by OP.
@souvik_mishra Thank you! That means a lot to us. We spent a long time trying to make Onera feel effortless.
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Maker
We've been building this for a while and I'm really excited to finally share it.
The idea came from a simple frustration: as a founder, I kept doing the same growth tasks over and over. Writing outreach emails, researching competitors, drafting tweets. Work that felt important but wasn't actually building the product.
Onera Operator is our answer to that. It's not a chatbot you prompt. It's a system that wakes up every 4 hours, figures out what your startup needs, and goes and does it.
Would love to hear what you think, especially from other founders who've felt the same pain. Happy to answer any questions below.
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Seems like an amazing product! Cannot wait to try it.
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The F*cking Corona
I tried it and was absolutely blown away by how little I had to manage it, and then was again blown away by the fact that when I had to manage it. It was up to me how much I wanted to manage it; I could either nudge it at a high level or micromanage, depending on my style of work. It even inspired me to write an article. Awesome work by OP.
Catalyst
@souvik_mishra Thank you! That means a lot to us. We spent a long time trying to make Onera feel effortless.
We've been building this for a while and I'm really excited to finally share it.
The idea came from a simple frustration: as a founder, I kept doing the same growth tasks over and over. Writing outreach emails, researching competitors, drafting tweets. Work that felt important but wasn't actually building the product.
Onera Operator is our answer to that. It's not a chatbot you prompt. It's a system that wakes up every 4 hours, figures out what your startup needs, and goes and does it.
Would love to hear what you think, especially from other founders who've felt the same pain. Happy to answer any questions below.
Seems like an amazing product! Cannot wait to try it.