spymux
Spy on your tmux panes
Details
- External ID
- 45928932
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- spymux
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Nov. 14, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 10
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5152838427947598
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
I had motivation for writing this after I kept switching back and forth between agents to see if they've finished what they were working on (and I couldn't find a similar tool out there). I'd imagine it can be useful for other scenarios as well, e.g. tracking multiple build/test jobs over multiple windows.Still a work in progress, but I thought I'd share :)
Enrichment
- Theme
- interactive simulations and creative experiments
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- tmux pane monitoring tool
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a developer utility that polls or inspects tmux pane output and notifies the user, which is a focused CLI or TUI tool requiring standard system/terminal scripting.
Discussion
4 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: tmux (pane splitting)
Concerns raised: unclear what problem this solves beyond existing pane splitting functionality, not full screen view
Feature requests: curated list of tmux plugins
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 29 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #20 of 30 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 8 days after the earliest competitor.
- Dwm.tmux · hn · 2026-01-24 · 101 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Tmux-IDE, OSS agent-first terminal IDE · hn · 2026-03-18 · 88 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- back2vibing · hn · 2026-04-07 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- jmux · hn · 2026-04-05 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Relaymux, a tmux-based meta-harness for local coding agents · hn · 2026-06-17 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- 83 browser-use trajectories, visualized · hn · 2026-01-23 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Mozilla.ai introduces Clawbolt, an AI Assistant for the trades · hn · 2026-03-03 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- Share your AI Setup, Learn from others · hn · 2026-09-17 · 249 upvotes · similarity 0.35
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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