Wisp
a Linux shell with Lua scripting and structured pipelines
Details
- External ID
- 49132146
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Wisp
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Aug. 1, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 9
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5309139784946236
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- systems tools and desktop utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- linux shell with lua scripting
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Creating a custom command shell that embeds a Lua runtime and passes structured JSON or Lua tables through Unix pipelines is a classic systems project that LLMs can scaffold effectively.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: bash
Concerns raised: ecosystem compatibility with existing bash scripts, requires some bash knowledge anyway
Feature requests: clarify external program handling, explain debugging capabilities, document object schema stability
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 1784 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #856 of 1785 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 274 days after the earliest competitor.
- Kvist · hn · 2026-08-28 · 34 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- ShellAI · hn · 2025-11-06 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- redis-lua-lint · github · 2026-09-25 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- hop · github · 2026-09-11 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- A Common Lisp implementation in development · hn · 2026-04-05 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Vehla · hn · 2026-09-13 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- A 10KiB kernel for cloud apps · hn · 2026-01-14 · 68 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- buninu-linux · github · 2026-09-18 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.57
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- No other launches for this product.
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