alans-way
Alan's Way: a Mac app where your Hermes bots drive their own browser tabs on your Mac and a cloud VPS, with Telegram alongside and handoff between the two.
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Details
- External ID
- 1403360762
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- alans-way
- Website domain
- openalan.com
- Launched
- Oct. 3, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 18
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.44650205761316875
- Tags
- agentic, ai-agents, automation, browser-automation, desktop-app, electron, hermes, mac, self-hosted, telegram, vps
- Fetched at
- Oct. 7, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 7, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Niche
- networking, privacy, and security utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- browser automation bot manager for mac and vps
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The client app and bot orchestration are straightforward, but multi-environment headless browser synchronization and state handoff between local Mac and cloud VPS require non-trivial state persistence infra.
What it would actually take: The architecture involves an Electron or native macOS Swift frontend communicating with Playwright/Puppeteer instances both locally and over WebSocket/SSH on a remote VPS, tied to the Telegram Bot API. The complex aspect is seamless session serialization and cookie/DOM state handoff between local browser contexts and remote server environments without triggering anti-bot protections.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 136 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #66 of 137 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 312 days after the earliest competitor.
- telegram-miniapp-roundtrip · github · 2026-09-27 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Watch bots interact with an SSH honeypot in real time · hn · 2026-07-17 · 181 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- ai-companion-telegram-guide · github · 2026-09-30 · 31 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- hermes-grok-bridge · github · 2026-09-15 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- bighelp · github · 2026-09-26 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- tgfake · github · 2026-10-07 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- StenlyBotBase · github · 2026-09-13 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- herald · github · 2026-10-03 · 37 upvotes · similarity 0.40
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
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