Poor Man's Claude Pro – All the code you'll ever need for $20 per month

A developer published a guide showing how to run Claude Code sessions remotely from a phone for the $20-per-month Claude Pro plan instead of the higher-priced Claude Max plan, using a shell function that SSHes into a personal server and launches each session in a detached tmux window with the `claude --remote-control` flag. The setup requires a self-hosted web server, a mobile terminal, and dotfiles, with the GitHub CLI optionally installed so Claude can create and push repositories. The author frames the approach as delivering the same on-the-go coding capability as Claude Max, which Anthropic bundles with a server for remote Claude sessions and default pushes to a GitHub repo.

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