Launching today
Beam.win
Run AI agents on one Mac and use its windows on another
435 followers
Run AI agents on one Mac and use its windows on another
435 followers
Keep your agents and builds running on a Mac mini or Studio. Beam brings their Terminal, browser and other app windows onto the Mac in front of you, each as its own window with a Dock icon and ⌘Tab presence. Encrypted between your Macs. Free to try.
Hey Product Hunt, Hiten here.
My setup has gotten a little weird. I've got Macs running agents and local models, with work continuing even when nobody's sitting in front of them.
Sometimes I just want to check a Terminal, open a browser, or use an app on one of those machines. Getting there usually means opening Screen Sharing and navigating a whole second desktop.
Sam and I have been working on Beam to make this easier.
With Beam, you pick a window on another Mac and it opens alongside the apps on the Mac you're using. It gets its own Dock icon and a place in ⌘Tab. You can type into it and resize it like a normal window. You can also move files between Macs and hear the app's audio. The app itself keeps running on its original machine.
When one window isn't enough, Beam lets you open an entire screen or the whole Mac.
I'm especially excited about using Beam with headless Mac minis and Studios. They can keep running agents and other work while I use their apps from whichever Mac I'm sitting in front of.
Beam works on Apple silicon Macs running Sonoma or later. You can connect over your local network or through Tailscale, with encrypted connections directly between Macs.
It's available now and free to try for 20 minutes every day. Download it at Beam.win.
A few weeks ago I asked people on X to show me their weird multi-Mac setups. The thread got over 100 replies, and I've loved seeing what everyone has built.
One thing I've become fascinated by is the Mac nobody sits in front of.
If you have one, what do you still need to open Screen Sharing for?
@hnshah Hey Hiten and Sam, many congratulations on the launch! 😊
Every time Hiten shows me what he’s building, I get excited, and when he first shared the product last week, I was especially looking forward to this one.
I have a multi-device setup myself, so the utility really clicked for me. I haven’t seen anything quite like it before, it almost feels like TeamViewer meets AirDrop between your own Macs, but with a much cleaner, more native experience.
I’ve always been a fan of what Hiten and Sam put together, especially their design sense, but what I appreciate most is Hiten’s local-first approach and LTD (lifetime deals) across all the products he builds. ❤️
This looks absolutely amazing. Love the website. Can’t wait to give it a try.
@jonnotie Thanks Jonno! We put a lot of care and attention to detail into the site, so really glad you like it. Can’t wait to hear what you think of the app 🙏
It seems good but I have a few questions that i could find answers, for example will it keep running if one of the the mac sleeps or have its internet disconnected and will it automatically resume from where the same state it got disconnected @hnshah?
@hnshah @sidraarifali Great questions! Yes on both. While you’re viewing a window, Beam keeps the other Mac awake, so it won’t drift off to sleep mid-session. And if the connection drops, say your Wi-Fi blips or a Mac wakes up or changes networks, Beam reconnects on its own and your windows come back right where they were. The apps themselves keep running on the other Mac the whole time, so nothing is lost.
does this stream audio as well? like if a remote browser session plays a sound notification so i hear iton my local Mac?
@matmeurer It does! Sound from the beamed app comes over too, so that notification plays right on your Mac.
This is interesting. I've just bought a fully specced MacBook Pro to run a local agent, and given what it cost I'm nervous about carrying it around. If Beam is as slick as it looks, it could stay safely at home doing the work while I use it from another Mac. What's the latency like over Tailscale, and how much bandwidth does it need?
@simon_moxon That’s a perfect setup for Beam! Over Tailscale your Macs connect directly whenever they can, so it feels like the MacBook is right there with you. Beam adapts to your connection as it goes, so a quiet window uses very little and fast motion uses more, and you can cap the frame rate and resolution in Settings for tighter connections. Keep the MacBook plugged in at home and it’ll even work with the lid closed, so it can sit safely on a shelf doing the work.
Really cool! would it work with Davinci on a headless mac studio? A friend of mine recently started using claude with davinci on a dedicated mac studio. For cutting movies etc. As Davinci's MCP integration became really good recently. Do you think he could benefit from this?
@alchemist_studio It’s a great fit for your friend! Bring DaVinci’s window from the headless Studio onto any Mac, sharp and with sound, while Claude does the cutting over there.
Would be cool to see with the growing capabilities of iphones whether you can make it work to control your mac via the phone.
Maybe ios is quite limiting but often times I need to use my mac for something but can only carry my phone because I’m traveling. All other solutions are pretty bad at the moment.
@vladislav_milkov1 Great news: it already works! Make a share link in Beam and open it on your phone, by tapping the link or scanning the QR code, over Wi-Fi or Tailscale. You can view and control your Mac right in the browser, with full touch support. A bonus of sharing a single window is that it resizes to fit your phone’s screen natively, so responsive apps feel right at home. And native iOS and Android apps are on the way soon too 📱
@samasante sheesh got it will try it out soon!
@vladislav_milkov1 Amazing, let us know how it goes!