It happens a few times a year. I'm away from my laptop, a deploy is stuck, and I want to tail a log or restart a service. The options all have friction. SSH apps on mobile work, but setting up keys on a phone is fiddly. Termius and Blink are polished but proprietary, and they still need a host to reach. Tunneling a local port to the public internet means picking between a paid tunnel service or standing up a Caddy reverse proxy with auth. Most of the time I just wait until I'm back at a real keyboard.
There's a smaller problem too. Sometimes I want to pair on my own machine from across the room, where an iPad is easier to hold than a laptop. Or I'm running a long build on my desktop and want to glance at it from the couch. None of these cases need full SSH. They need "show me this terminal, somewhere else, right now."
TermBeam is the first project I've seen that aims at that exact shape and doesn't ask for anything up front. One command, one QR code, done.
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