TermiPing — Control your terminal coding agents from your phone

A lightweight PWA that lets developers check, approve, and nudge coding agents when away from the keyboard

Problem

Many developers leave coding agents running in local or server terminals for long stretches. The moment they step away from the desk, they lose visibility into whether the agent is stuck, waiting for confirmation, or finished. A self-hosted mobile terminal PWA was built to address exactly this, which shows the pain is recurring, yet existing options remain too geeky or too heavy to deploy.

Solution

A self-hosted-first phone companion for terminal agents. It turns key output, multiple-choice prompts, and confirmation requests into mobile cards, supports one-tap approve/reject, lets you send a follow-up instruction, and pushes alerts on completion or exceptions. It does not replace the terminal, but acts as a pocket remote control through a small agent/PTY adapter.

Users

Indie developers, remote workers, and small teams who regularly run coding agents locally or on a server and need to step away without killing the task

MVP

A local daemon that captures agent session state; a mobile Web/PWA view of recent output and pending prompts; approve, reject, or append a one-line instruction; push browser notifications on completion or timeout; a single-command install script

Revenue

Open-source core plus a hosted subscription that handles public exposure, cross-device push, and history; $5/month for personal, per-seat for teams

Why now

Coding agents now run longer, so developers no longer need to stare at the screen, but they are still tied to desktops. Indie developers can build a thin local PTY and push-notification layer without touching models or compute