Beam.win
Run AI agents on one Mac and use its windows on another
634 followers
Run AI agents on one Mac and use its windows on another
634 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.
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How does Beam handle latency when a window is streamed over a normal home network versus the same LAN? Can I keep a Mac mini window open when the Mac in front of me sleeps?
Congrats Hiten and Sam on the launch. Running agents on a headless Mac mini is exactly where Screen Sharing gets clunky, so getting one window into Cmd-Tab makes a lot of sense. Curious how it handles an app on the mini that pops a modal or opens a new window mid-task: does that new window beam over automatically, or do I go back to the picker for it?
@genedai Great question! It’s automatic. A modal or sheet comes over attached to its window, and new windows the app opens appear on your Mac on their own. So things like Quick Look previews and Open and Save dialogs just work, right where you’d expect them, without ever going back to the picker.
Congrats @hnshah and @samasante. A single window with its own Dock icon and ⌘Tab spot is the right unit; a whole second desktop was always too much just to glance at a terminal. To your question: for me it's the browser an agent left open mid-task. That's the one I still open Screen Sharing for.
@hnshah @mikita_aliaksandrovich That browser is the perfect job for Beam. Bring just that window over from the other Mac and pick up right where the agent left off.
Pulling a single window from a headless Mac mini into my own Dock and Cmd Tab is the part I have wanted for ages, because checking on an agent run should not cost me a whole second desktop.
@karimbenkeroum Exactly, checking on an agent should take one window, not a whole desktop. Glad Beam hits the spot!
Love the idea of the Mac nobody sits in front of, pulling single windows from a headless Mac mini instead of a whole remote desktop is a really fresh take.