pureterm
PureTerm is an SSH/SFTP client built with Cordis, ssh2, and xterm.js
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GITHUB · launched Sep 16, 2026 · 57 upvotes (top 15%) · 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
- gui
- ssh
- terminal
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More like this: all 88 launches in remote access and protocol clients →
Could you build this?
Yes PureTerm is a desktop or web terminal wrapping xterm.js on the frontend and the standard ssh2 library on the backend, which is a classic vibe-codeable project.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 767 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #100 of 768 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 321 days after the earliest competitor.
- VsTerm · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- bawkterm · ph · 2026-10-03 · 66 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- shellwing · github · 2026-10-18 · 36 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- platty · github · 2026-10-13 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Linux server management over SSH · hn · 2026-08-31 · 49 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- easy-ssh · ph · 2026-11-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- elio · github · 2026-11-12 · 84 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Chuchu, an Android SSH client built on libghostty · hn · 2026-05-09 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.51
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