Skiff
Self-hosted SSH manager with sessions that don't die
Details
- External ID
- 1249208
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Skiff
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 14, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Open Source, Developer Tools, GitHub, Security
- Fetched at
- Sept. 15, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 15, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
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.
Enrichment
- Theme
- developer infrastructure and monitoring utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- self-hosted persistent ssh session manager for developers
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 97 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #57 of 98 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 306 days after the earliest competitor.
- Praxis · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Crank · hn · 2026-02-12 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Linux server management over SSH · hn · 2026-08-31 · 49 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- RePlaya · hn · 2026-06-02 · 50 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- fresh-session-remote-browser · github · 2026-09-26 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Termiyo · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Corral – Kill every command your agent starts · hn · 2026-09-29 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Deflect One · hn · 2026-04-14 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.41
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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