Heeler
Watch and steer your coding agents from your iPhone
Details
- External ID
- 1248993
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Helfer
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 18, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7405388069275176
- Tags
- Open Source, Developer Tools, GitHub, OpenAI Day
- Fetched at
- Sept. 19, 2026, 1:14 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 19, 2026, 1:14 a.m.
Description
Built with GPT-6, Heeler puts your coding agents on your iPhone. See who needs attention, open live terminals over SSH, send prompts with native input, and get encrypted alerts when agents are blocked or done. Open source; connects to herdr on your machines.
Enrichment
- Theme
- developer tools for AI agents
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- mobile app to monitor and control coding agents
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The iOS UI and remote trigger concepts can be generated easily, but embedding an in-app native terminal emulator with Metal rendering, libssh2 channel multiplexing, and Unix socket forwarding requires low-level systems engineering.
What it would actually take: The app requires compiling and binding low-level C libraries (libssh2, libghostty) within a native Swift/SwiftUI iOS application. The difficult engineering components include handling SSH PTY stream-local forwarding to remote Unix domain sockets, managing complex terminal escape sequences, and utilizing Metal shaders for low-latency terminal rendering on mobile. This demands specialized expertise in C/Swift interoperability, low-level networking, and Apple graphics programming.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 83 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #21 of 84 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 253 days after the earliest competitor.
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