Focusgrid– keyboard-controlled webapps like tmux
Details
- External ID
- 49910273
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Focusgrid– keyboard-controlled webapps like tmux
- Website domain
- andrewcyuan.com
- Launched
- Sept. 30, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.13020030816640987
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Oct. 1, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 1, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Description
Hi HN,Whenever I use web software I usually wish they put more thought into keyboard user's experience.So i made Focusgrid! It's a library (vanilla web, with optional react bindings) that lets you build web software with resizable, splittable panes and reprogrammable shortcuts, just like tmux. Would love to see what you build with it. I think email clients, browsers, and various creative tools could all benefit from pane layouts like this.NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@andrewcyuan/focusgrid?activeT...
Enrichment
- Theme
- custom keyboards and input tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- tmux-like keyboard navigation for web apps
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a front-end UI library providing split panes, resizable layouts, and keyboard shortcut event listeners, which is well-suited for AI code generation.
Discussion
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Competitors
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Attention rank: #52 of 62 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 320 days after the earliest competitor.
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- flash.tmux · github · 2026-09-11 · 28 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- spymux · hn · 2025-11-14 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Giggles · hn · 2026-03-03 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.37
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