Buoy
A desktop home for tmux, files, and remote localhost
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Buoy is a free, open-source desktop tmux client for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Reconnect to running sessions, preview files and self-contained HTML in place, recognize localhost links, open remote services through automatic SSH tunnels, and drag files or folders into the terminal to upload them to its current directory.
PH · launched Oct 25, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 22%) · 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
- Productivity
- Open Source
- Developer Tools
- GitHub
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Could you build this?
Partial The UI and session management are approachable, but a robust tmux client needs terminal emulation, tmux control mode handling, and reliable SSH tunneling across three operating systems, which is more than typical vibe coding produces.
What it would actually take: Use Tauri or Electron with xterm.js for terminal rendering, and drive tmux through its control mode (tmux -CC) to attach and reconnect to sessions. Implement SSH tunnels with libssh2 or the system ssh client for remote localhost forwarding, and add file upload via SFTP. The hard parts are correct terminal behavior and cross-platform SSH/PTY edge cases, which benefit from systems programming experience.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 173 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #43 of 174 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 342 days after the earliest competitor.
- Quay Term · ph · 2026-11-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- WMUX · ph · 2026-10-06 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- ThinClient OS · ph · 2026-10-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Hyperbutler · hn · 2026-11-04 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- RemoteUSB · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- macOSDocker · ph · 2026-11-11 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- MacDock · github · 2026-11-06 · 91 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Ledge.sh · hn · 2026-09-29 · 204 upvotes · similarity 0.38
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