Crank
The SSH Terminal Manager for Engineers Who Refuse to Close Tabs
Details
- External ID
- 46985154
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Crank
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Feb. 12, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.28099730458221023
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
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.
Enrichment
- Theme
- Claude integrations and coding agents
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- ssh terminal session manager
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 148 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #129 of 149 (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 0.47
- 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 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Scape · hn · 2026-03-05 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- SCMD · ph · 2026-09-27 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- tty7 · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Cockpit for you Claude Code agents in Rust · hn · 2026-08-01 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.41
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