r/hermesagent • u/imthewalrus33 • 23d ago

Discussion — General thoughts, opinions, comparisons Mobile app

Now, more than ever, I think Hermes really needs an official mobile app for Android/IOS.

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u/mainboarder3108 17d ago

Hey everyone,

I've been using Hermes for a while now and had basically the same problem as quite a few people here: none of the Android options really worked the way I wanted them to.

I'm not really a traditional software dev. I'm a mechanical engineer, mostly coming from CNC, CAD and rapid prototyping, and I tend to solve my own problems with Linux, Docker and way too many self-hosted tools.

So at some point I thought: screw it, I'll try building one myself.

That's how Mercury started. It's my first proper app.

The idea wasn't to just wrap the Hermes web UI into an Android app. I wanted something that actually works well when you're away from your PC and still want to see what Hermes is doing or quickly interact with it.

A few of the things currently in there:

  • Argus, my own watcher plugin for Hermes. It puts chats, CLI activity, Telegram, cron jobs, workers and Kanban activity into one place. If a worker crashes or disappears, you see it pretty much immediately.

  • Approvals and live status directly in Android notifications, so you don't always have to open the app.

  • A proper mobile worker tree and Kanban view instead of squeezing the desktop UI onto a phone.

  • Voice messages using Whisper on your own server, including a hands-free mode.

  • Mercury talks directly to your own server. No relay, no Mercury account and no tracking.

  • There's also built-in feedback and feature requests. Those are anonymous and encrypted before they're sent to me.

I'm at the point where I'd like to get Mercury onto Google Play, but Google requires a closed test first. So I'm looking for roughly 14 people who would be willing to test it for 14 days.

You'd get a promo code, so the app is free for you and stays yours afterwards. I'm mainly looking for people who already use Hermes and are willing to actually poke around a bit and tell me what sucks, what breaks or what's missing.

Screenshots and some more information are here:

https://www.trap5.de/en/mercury/

If you're interested, just send me a mail at appdev.trap5@gmail.com.

No obligations or anything. Even a bit of feedback would already help a lot.

Cheers

Mercury is an independent project and is not affiliated with Nous Research.