BotBus connects local coding agents to your phone. Manage Codex, Claude Code, Hermes, OpenCode, DeepSeek Harness and more across computers. Continue supported tasks, handle approvals, view files and PDFs, and use a terminal. macOS adds screen control and shared web previews. Hosts: macOS, Linux, Windows. Mobile: iPhone, Apple Watch, Android APK. Your computer stays online; capabilities vary by connector.
Hi Product Hunt! I'm Rico, the developer of BotBus.
I built it for the moments when I step away from my computer but still want to keep local coding-agent work moving. I wanted one phone app for several agents and computers, with the task, conversation and result in the same place.
BotBus connects Codex, Claude Code, Hermes, OpenCode, DeepSeek Harness, Pi and OpenClaw to your phone. Additional agents can connect through ACP, with compatibility checked individually.
What you can do:
- Check tasks and conversations across computers.
- Start or continue sessions, reply to questions, approve or interrupt where the connector supports it.
- Open shared images, videos, files and PDFs.
- Browse computer files and connect to a terminal.
- On macOS, view/control the screen and open web previews shared by an agent.
Computer hosts are available for macOS, Linux and Windows. Mobile options are iPhone / Apple Watch and an Android APK. Linux and Windows support files and terminals, but do not support screen control or development previews.
A few practical limits: your computer must stay online; web previews also need the development server online. Hermes in the current integration and Pi have no approval channel. File retrieval depends on supported paths, size, retention and computer availability.
Task content, shared artifact bytes and workspace traffic are end-to-end encrypted. The relay still handles routing metadata and temporarily stores ciphertext; development previews have a separate security boundary: https://botbus.io/en/docs/security
The video is a promotional demonstration. App screenshots use simulator demo fixtures, and the remote desktop scene is composed.
The protocol and connector packages are public: https://github.com/botbus-io/bot...
I'd love feedback on your first pairing experience and what you most need to do when you're away from your desk. Which agent and phone do you use?
Love this, Rico. Who’s getting the most out of it so far, and is that who you expected when you started building?
Quick question for the Claude Code / Codex folks here: when your agent is mid-task and you've stepped away from your desk, what do you actually do? Wait? Come back and scroll?
I built BotBus for exactly that gap. It lives in your macOS menu bar, finds the agents on your machine, and puts their tasks on your phone and Apple Watch — including the moments where the agent stops and asks you for approval, or asks a question you need to answer. Approve a command or reply to the agent from your wrist, no laptop required.
Two things I'd rather be honest about than oversell:
- The computer has to be online for approvals and new tasks (reading synced history doesn't need it).
- Screen control is macOS-only for now, and web previews aren't end-to-end encrypted.
Everything else — chats, commands, images — is AES-256 encrypted on-device; the relay only ever sees ciphertext, and the pairing key never leaves your devices.
If you run local coding agents and you've ever cursed at waiting to get back to a terminal, I'd love to hear: what's the one thing you most wish you could do from your phone?
About BotBus on Product Hunt
“Manage your local coding agents from your phone”
BotBus launched on Product Hunt on October 8th, 2026 and earned 83 upvotes and 3 comments, placing #16 on the daily leaderboard. BotBus connects local coding agents to your phone. Manage Codex, Claude Code, Hermes, OpenCode, DeepSeek Harness and more across computers. Continue supported tasks, handle approvals, view files and PDFs, and use a terminal. macOS adds screen control and shared web previews. Hosts: macOS, Linux, Windows. Mobile: iPhone, Apple Watch, Android APK. Your computer stays online; capabilities vary by connector.
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