Launching today
Beam.win
Run AI agents on one Mac and use its windows on another
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Run AI agents on one Mac and use its windows on another
433 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.
What distinguishes Beam from screen sharing or Remote Desktop? Is it streaming individual windows rather than the whole desktop?
Btw, Congratulations @hnshah and @samasante 🎊🚀
@hnshah @aymi_malik Thanks! It actually does a great job at both. Beam can bring over individual windows as real windows on your Mac, each with its own Dock icon and spot in ⌘Tab, and resizing one here resizes the real window over there. Or share the whole Mac, at your display’s exact resolution with native shortcuts and all your Spaces. Either way, it’s the sharpest and smoothest screen sharing app I've ever used ⚡
how does it handle resource usage on the client Mac when you have 4 to 5 heavy remote app window open at once?
@charlotte_pierce Really light on usage, much lighter than macOS Screen Sharing according to our users. The apps keep all their CPU and memory on the other Mac, and your Mac displays their windows using Apple silicon’s built-in video engine. Even 4 or 5 heavy apps at once, or many more, and your Mac stays cool and quiet.
TIL there's a .win TLD!
@rrhoover Haha, as soon as we saw beam.win it just felt right 😄
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!