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Tui2web

use any TUI on the web

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I built this utility because there have been a ton of times I started a claude session and then wanted to go for a walk, or a coffee break, while thinking about whatever I was working on, and keep prompting the agent.I used a hacky VPS + Termius setup while I was backpacking / nomading across Europe and Asia, which allowed me to be modestly productive, but connections kept dropping, and the transfer of files, context, etc from my laptop to VPS was annoying.tui2web basically mirrors any terminal UI application (claude, opencode, omp, even bash or vim) to the web. I know claude and codex (?) has remote sessions, but I never managed to get it working and none of the other open source harnesses do, and they all require way too much setup on my phone when I already have a mobile browser I quite like.All traffic runs through a relay I'm hosting and providing for free. I was using this for a few days myself before it became too sketchy to run this through public internet, so I added first class Tailscale support.I think the security is definitely top of mind. Anything on public internet feels prey at this point, curious to hear if anyone has any feedback to make this more locked down.

HN · launched Sep 25, 2026 · 7 upvotes (top 56%) · 0 views

Niche: terminal emulators and utilities · 106 launches, 1 in the last 7 days ▼ -88% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Developer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

Yes It wraps a local pseudo-terminal (pty) and streams terminal I/O over WebSockets to an xterm.js front-end through a reverse tunnel relay.

Discussion

2 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: AQ, tmux

Concerns raised: Security risk of relay path seeing keystrokes and secrets, Session fragility if browser tab owns connection rather than server

Feature requests: Server-side persistence independent of browser tabs, Short-lived token-scoped links with explicit revoke, Tailscale-first default connection

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 402 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #251 of 403 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 331 days after the earliest competitor.

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