Nicheloom

Market intelligence for builders — see what's gaining traction before it's crowded.

Tt

P2P terminal sharing over WebRTC

Details

External ID
46514587
Source
HN
Company
—
Product
—
Website domain
—
Launched
Jan. 6, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
13
Upvotes percentile
0.5790513833992095
Tags
—
Fetched at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.

Description

Made this to use my laptop terminal session on mobile without data going through a server.tt start -p mypassword → get a URL (qrcode) → open in browser → enter password → connected.Direct webrtc datachannel between your machine and browser.Signaling server is a cloudflare worker, exchanges ~2KB of sdp/ice metadata then gets out of the way. Password never transmitted - argon2id derives 256-bit key locally on both ends. All terminal i/o gets nacl secretbox encryption before hitting the datachannel. double encrypted with dtls underneath but I wanted the relay to see nothing useful even during signaling.go + pion/webrtc, about 14k loc. browser is xterm.js + webcrypto for argon2id. stun default, turn for symmetric nat.my use case: checking on claude code runs from my phone when im not at my desk. hotel wifi, spotty mobile data. spent time on turn fallback, keepalive with reconnection, buffered writes during disconnects. pwa so it works from home screen and survives app switching. holds up ok on 3g.Trade-offs: ice gathering takes 2-5s on connect. browser cant initiate, need cli on host. codes expire 24h.Single binary, no deps. daemon mode for multiple sessions. tests with race detector, chaos tests for disconnects, network condition simulation. crypto and webrtc at ~72% coverage.https://github.com/artpar/terminal-tunnelps: default relay runs on my cloudflare free tier so no guarantees. you can self-host the worker or run tt relay locally.

Enrichment

Theme
self-hosted infrastructure and security tools
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Dev tools
Audience
Developer
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
p2p terminal sharing over webrtc
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Yes Spawning a pseudo-terminal (pty) and piping raw terminal I/O over a peer-to-peer WebRTC DataChannel with a lightweight signaling worker is well within modern vibe-coding reach.

Discussion

2 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: mosh

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 167 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #75 of 168 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 69 days after the earliest competitor.

Other launches for this product

Same idea, different domain

Nobody's really built a dev tools tool for Sales yet.