# Phone Harness

[Phone Harness on Hacklab](https://hacklab.so/org/phone-harness)

Startup · 1 person on Hacklab

## Links

- [Website](https://phone-harness.com/)
- [Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/phone-harness)
- [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/company/phone-harness)
- [X](https://x.com/phone_harness/)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/ShawnPana/phone-harness)

## About

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## YC company profile

Let your agent control your phone

Phone Harness is the most popular open-source harness for phone automation with 3,800+ GitHub stars. We enable agents to tap, type, and scroll on your personal phone or cloud-hosted phones. Supports iPhone and Android. No jailbreak, API, or app installation needed.

- **YC batch:** Fall 2026
- **Founded:** 2026
- **Team size:** 1
- **Location:** San Francisco
- **Country:** US
- **Status:** Active
- **Industry:** B2B
- **Stage:** Early
- **Tags:** Open Source, API, Automation, AI
- **YC partner:** Andrew Miklas

## Founders

### Shawn Pana — Founder/CEO

Founder/CEO at Phone Harness (YC F26). Previously Head of Growth at Browser Use, leading product launches and developer partnerships. Studied Mathematics and Computer Science at UC San Diego.

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shawnpana/) · [X](https://x.com/shawn_pana)

[Source: Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/phone-harness) · Retrieved 2026-11-02. Company information is self-reported on YC.

## Current staff

- [Shawn Pana](https://hacklab.so/shawn-pana) — Founder/CEO (Present)