Crank
The SSH Terminal Manager for Engineers Who Refuse to Close Tabs
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I've gone full vibe coder, and in doing so I replaced how I used to work with my own (and very buggy) SSH window manager. The world shifted for me, and it's unsettling... I haven't read the code yet, but I'm using it to manage 25 projects all running claude code on a very beefy server.Every single facet of this project was from claude.
HN · launched Feb 12, 2026 · 6 upvotes (top 72%) · 0 views
Niche: terminal emulators and utilities · 106 launches, 1 in the last 7 days ▼ -88% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Yes The author self-identifies as vibe coding this tool; an SSH connection manager/session switcher built on top of standard terminal libraries or tmux wrappers is very straightforward for AI assistants.
Discussion
6 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Zellij, IntelliJ, sshd_config directives (ChannelTimeout, UnusedConnectionTimeout)
Concerns raised: Complex solution to simple problem, Missing Getting Started/installation documentation, Java terminal implementation has bugs, High memory usage
Feature requests: Clear installation and usage documentation, Improve Java terminal functionality
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 329 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #292 of 330 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 92 days after the earliest competitor.
- Deckard, Claude-first terminal manager · hn · 2026-04-02 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Skiff · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Jeansh · ph · 2026-09-20 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Corral – Kill every command your agent starts · hn · 2026-09-29 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Session Deck · ph · 2026-10-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Scape · hn · 2026-03-05 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Shelter41 · ph · 2026-11-13 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Cockpit for you Claude Code agents in Rust · hn · 2026-08-01 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.43
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