Me and my friends moved our whole AI agent setup (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor agents) from my MacBook to a Hetzner box following @levelsio 's tips. Best decision we made, except for one thing: every time we touched a native iOS app, we were back on the Mac. Signing, archiving, uploading to TestFlight, all of it chained to that one laptop.
We looked at the usual options:
- Cloud Macs: $100+/month for a machine that sits idle 95% of the time
The native app publishing pipeline built for AI agents: build signed iOS releases to validate your code, push to TestFlight ot see preview on your iPhone in minutes, and submit to the App Store directly form your agent. No Mac, no Xcode, all from your Claude, Codex, or Cursor agent via NoMac CLI and MCP.
