Nomad: early testing on request

After several months of design and development, I’m opening Nomad to early testers. I’ve been using it on my own workstation for several weeks.

Develop from a phone

Nomad turns your Android phone into a voice terminal for a remote Linux machine. The phone’s microphone captures dictation; a Nintendo Switch Joy-Con in the other hand controls the mouse with its stick and shortcuts through configurable button combinations. You can use Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex and other CLIs without a physical keyboard.

The project includes a Linux daemon, an adapted RustDesk fork, a licence server and a bilingual website.

Test the use cases before setting prices

The planned price remains €5/month or €50 for a lifetime licence. It is not active in the testing phase described here. I’m looking for feedback on these questions first:

• Does holding a Joy-Con in one hand and a phone in the other remain practical during longer sessions?
• Which shortcut profiles are missing for your CLIs?
• Where do installation, pairing or transcription cause problems?
• What other uses emerge, such as reviewing code while walking or recording voice notes during a build?

Those responses will help me adapt Nomad to uses I hadn’t anticipated.

Request access

Send a message through the form at nomadrust.dev, including your email address, to request access. No credit card is required at this stage. You’ll receive an invitation by email, without marketing follow-ups.

Feedback that would help

If you try Nomad, tell me what you could do or what blocked you. I’m interested in the exact point where it became difficult to use, and any uses you hadn’t considered before trying it.

If something fails, say so: that feedback will help prepare the public V1.

Direct link to the form on the home page. Thanks to the first testers.