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Self-hosted SSH manager with sessions that don't die
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Self-hosted SSH manager built around one idea: sessions shouldn't die when you close a tab. Persistent sessions, session recording you can scrub through, plus (in the desktop app) break-glass approvals, guardrails on risky commands, and a tamper-evident audit chain. Core engine is Apache-licensed, rest is AGPL so it can't be forked into a closed paid product. Built solo, feedback welcome.
PH · launched Sep 14, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views
Niche: remote access and protocol clients · 88 launches, 9 in the last 7 days ▲ +29% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Open Source
- Developer Tools
- GitHub
- Security
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More like this: all 88 launches in remote access and protocol clients →
Could you build this?
Partial Basic SSH client interfaces and web wrappers can be vibe-coded, but persistent PTY multiplexing, real-time asciinema-style session streaming, break-glass approvals, and cryptographically verified tamper-evident audit chains require robust systems and security expertise.
What it would actually take: The architecture involves a Go or Rust daemon managing persistent POSIX pseudo-terminals (PTYs) via detached subprocesses or tmux/screen style socket multiplexers. The tamper-evident ledger requires a continuous cryptographic hash-chain (like a local Merkle tree or append-only ledger using SHA-256) resilient against race conditions and process crashes. Developing this demands deep systems programming, Linux terminal emulation mechanics, and defensive security engineering.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 228 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #178 of 229 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 306 days after the earliest competitor.
- Crank · hn · 2026-02-12 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Praxis · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Spug · ph · 2026-10-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Linux server management over SSH · hn · 2026-08-31 · 49 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- RePlaya · hn · 2026-06-02 · 50 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Trinetra · ph · 2026-10-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- mssh · ph · 2026-10-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Termiyo · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
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