I released my first open-source Mac app today.

1 min read Last updated April 1, 2026
By Dan
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I released my first open-source Mac app today.

I do a lot of plan/build with autonomous AI agents and I’m not always at my desk when they’re ready for me. I needed two things: a way to review their work from my phone - interactive notifications where I can read what they did and respond - and a way to deploy full iOS builds remotely when I approve them.

So I built it.

RemoteDeploy is a macOS menu bar app. It builds an IPA for whatever project you’re working on, signs it, serves it over HTTPS through Tailscale, and your iPhone installs it from a Safari URL in about 10 seconds. From anywhere. It also pushes notifications through Prowl, Pushover, or ntfy so you know the moment a build finishes (pass or fail!)

The other reason I built it: I wanted to learn Apple’s full signing and notarization pipeline for a real Mac app. If I’m going to ship to the App Store, I should understand every step from the inside.

First open-source release. MIT licensed. Free.

Github: github.com/danrichardson/mac-remote-deploy