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HN · launched Dec 25, 2025 · 14 upvotes (top 41%) · 0 views
Niche: collaborative social web experiments · 63 launches, 1 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
More like this: all 63 launches in collaborative social web experiments →
Could you build this?
Yes This is an SSH-accessible terminal toy or art prompt, which can easily be implemented in a few dozen lines of Go or Node.js using an SSH server library like Wish or ssh2 to render ANSI art.
Discussion
4 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Devzat (SSH chat tool)
Concerns raised: Chat moderation and content filtering needed, Unclear how to implement gift mechanics compellingly
Feature requests: Lobby-wide chat room for all users to communicate together
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 257 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #106 of 258 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 38 days after the earliest competitor.
- Reminal · hn · 2026-07-01 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- platty · github · 2026-10-13 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- ssh-key-manager · github · 2026-11-02 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- OxiSH, a modern, memory-safe SSH server · hn · 2026-08-13 · 28 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- ssh ssh.place · hn · 2026-08-03 · 186 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Echo, an iOS SSH+mosh client built on Ghostty · hn · 2026-02-18 · 122 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- shellwing · github · 2026-10-18 · 36 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Shittp · hn · 2025-12-21 · 136 upvotes · similarity 0.47
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