Tui2web
use any TUI on the web
Details
- External ID
- 49846613
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Tui2web
- Website domain
- tui2web.com
- Launched
- Sept. 25, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 7
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4393939393939394
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 29, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 29, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Description
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.
Enrichment
- Theme
- utilities for Claude and Claude Code
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- web interface for terminal user interfaces
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 245 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #147 of 246 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 331 days after the earliest competitor.
- Claudraband · hn · 2026-04-12 · 120 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- CloudCLI-Web/Mobile UI for Claude Code,Codex and Gemini(8.2k stars) · hn · 2026-03-12 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- your website as a TUI, over SSH right now · hn · 2026-07-08 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Claudebin · hn · 2026-02-19 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- You can now run Gemini CLI in the browser · hn · 2026-04-30 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- kiln.bot · hn · 2026-02-03 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Trustmux · hn · 2026-06-21 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Ccgs · hn · 2026-06-06 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.45
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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