Put Codex or Claude Code on your own cloud machine
Codex Remote is an open-source Mac menu bar app for putting Codex and Claude Code on a cloud machine you control. Choose a provider and size; it provisions the server with OpenTofu, installs the agents, and connects the machine to the apps you already use. See CPU, memory, and active sessions, pause idle servers, sync a project, or let an agent manage machines with opt-in MCP access. Your cloud credentials stay on your Mac. No hosted middleman. Independent of OpenAI and Anthropic.
Hi Product Hunt, I'm Pandelis, the maker of Codex Remote.
Renting a VM is quick. Getting a coding agent to live there, survive reboots, and appear in the tools you already use is the fiddly part. I built this Mac menu bar app to handle that setup against your own cloud account, with no hosted control plane.
Choose Codex, Claude Code, or both on Hetzner, AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr, or Scaleway. See live health and session counts, pause a machine when idle, and move a project over with `codex-remote push`. An MCP server lets an agent inspect machines; changing and destroying machines are separate opt-in permissions.
The app is MIT licensed and independent of OpenAI and Anthropic. Claude Code still needs a one-time sign-in on the machine, which the app guides you through.
I'd love to hear what feels hardest about moving an agent off your laptop, and which provider or workflow you want improved next. Happy to answer questions here.
About Codex Remote on Product Hunt
“Put Codex or Claude Code on your own cloud machine”
Codex Remote launched on Product Hunt on September 29th, 2026 and earned 74 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #29 on the daily leaderboard. Codex Remote is an open-source Mac menu bar app for putting Codex and Claude Code on a cloud machine you control. Choose a provider and size; it provisions the server with OpenTofu, installs the agents, and connects the machine to the apps you already use. See CPU, memory, and active sessions, pause idle servers, sync a project, or let an agent manage machines with opt-in MCP access. Your cloud credentials stay on your Mac. No hosted middleman. Independent of OpenAI and Anthropic.
On the analytics side, Codex Remote competes within Open Source, Developer Tools and Menu Bar Apps — topics that collectively have 601.5k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Codex Remote performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Codex Remote?
Codex Remote was hunted by Pandelis Zembashis. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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