Hi Product Hunt! I'm Dmytro, and I've been building Merkur for the past ten months.

Merkur lets you open your own Mac or Linux machines from any browser or phone as a real terminal. You link a machine once with one command, and after that Neovim, tmux, Claude Code or Codex are a tab away: on your laptop, your phone, or a borrowed computer.

I built it because I wanted to reach my machines when I wasn't at my desk, and nothing I tried felt right. SSH apps wanted my keys or a VPN on every device, working from a phone on a weak connection was hopeless, and rendering glitches kept getting in the way of Neovim and Claude Code.

What you get:

• No SSH keys, VPN or open ports. Your machine connects out, and you sign in with a password.

• It holds up on bad networks, and your session survives a switch from Wi-Fi to cellular.

• It renders like a native terminal: sharp fonts and icons, inline images, clickable links.

• A phone keyboard with Esc, Ctrl, Tab and arrows, and it installs like an app.

• Push notifications when something needs you, like an agent waiting for input.

• Encrypted end to end, with each machine's key held in its Secure Enclave or TPM.

It's free and open source (AGPL). You'll need a recent browser: Chrome, Edge, Safari 26.4+ or Firefox on Windows or macOS.

I built this for myself and use it every day. I'd love to hear what you'd use it for and what breaks. I'll be here all day answering!