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Spy on your tmux panes
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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 :)
HN · launched Nov 14, 2025 · 10 upvotes (top 48%) · 0 views
Niche: command line productivity tools · 82 launches, 0 in the last 7 days ▼ -100% · 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 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 : 54 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #37 of 55 (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 0.50
- Tmux-IDE, OSS agent-first terminal IDE · hn · 2026-03-18 · 88 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Corgi, a helpful {agent, terminal} multiplexer · hn · 2026-10-23 · 140 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- jmux · hn · 2026-04-05 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Relaymux, a tmux-based meta-harness for local coding agents · hn · 2026-06-17 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- back2vibing · hn · 2026-04-07 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- 83 browser-use trajectories, visualized · hn · 2026-01-23 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Mozilla.ai introduces Clawbolt, an AI Assistant for the trades · hn · 2026-03-03 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.38
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