Shittp
Volatile Dotfiles over SSH
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HN · launched Dec 21, 2025 · 136 upvotes (top 8%) · 0 views
Niche: software deployment and configuration tools · 165 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -68% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 165 launches in software deployment and configuration tools →
Could you build this?
Yes It is a small shell or SSH utility designed to stream dotfiles into memory or ephemeral directories during an SSH session.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: zsh4humans, BSD (for network switches instead of proprietary vendor software)
Concerns raised: dotfile syncing across remote machines is inherently complex with separate filesystems, stripped-down containers missing standard utilities like ed or less, modern distros require policy updates and reboots for SSH key exchange changes, bash/vim configuration logic tied to filesystem dotfiles, not remote data sources
Feature requests: special shell providing only syscalls and process substitution on remote, with client-side parsing, rsync-filter or CACHEDIR.TAG support for excluding cache directories, project-level config file detection (.exrc, .vim.local, .nvim.local)
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1727 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #113 of 1728 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 53 days after the earliest competitor.
- Linux server management over SSH · hn · 2026-08-31 · 49 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- platty · github · 2026-10-13 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Reminal · hn · 2026-07-01 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- OxiSH, a modern, memory-safe SSH server · hn · 2026-08-13 · 28 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- shellwing · github · 2026-10-18 · 36 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- vmup · github · 2026-09-12 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Deflect One · hn · 2026-04-14 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Echo, an iOS SSH+mosh client built on Ghostty · hn · 2026-02-18 · 122 upvotes · similarity 0.57
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