Ghostide
Fast ide for Android
Details
- External ID
- 1369973353
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- Ghostide
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 14, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 9
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.21822956699974377
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 18, 2026, 5:03 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 18, 2026, 5:03 p.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
- fast ide for android devices
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No A fast, fully functional native IDE on Android requires building or embedding compilers/toolchains, terminal emulators, virtual file systems, and managing extreme Android OS background execution and memory constraints. This requires deep Android NDK, terminal emulation, and low-level Linux subsystem knowledge far beyond what vibe coding can construct.
What it would actually take: Architecture requires Kotlin/NDK, an embedded terminal emulator (like Termux's terminal-emulator core), language server protocol (LSP) integrations running in a proot or native Linux environment, and syntax rendering engines. The hardest parts involve Android's strict scoped storage rules, Sandboxed execution, process lifecycle management, and compiling toolchains (like GCC/Clang or Rust) for ARM Android. Requires seasoned Android systems and compilers engineers.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 572 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #441 of 573 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 319 days after the earliest competitor.
- RASPIRE - App Security at AI Speed. · yc · 2026-06-04 · 1176 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- morphe-patches · github · 2026-09-17 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Frida0xKit · github · 2026-09-18 · 25 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- DFReroot · github · 2026-09-13 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Aster · github · 2026-09-14 · 46 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- wetype-ime-linux · github · 2026-09-23 · 227 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- evepad · hn · 2026-08-20 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- AEmulator · github · 2026-09-24 · 35 upvotes · similarity 0.50
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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