Prompt
A New, Beautiful Terminal
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HN · launched Oct 30, 2026 · 6 upvotes (top 73%) · 0 views
Niche: terminal emulators and utilities · 105 launches, 8 in the last 7 days ▲ +60% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Yes A terminal emulator UI can be built by wrapping xterm.js with a PTY backend in Electron or Tauri, and the 'beautiful' polish is ordinary front-end work.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Warp, Ghostty, Alacritty
Concerns raised: Warp has become slow and buggy, Shortcuts differ from the rest of the stack
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 507 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #365 of 508 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 358 days after the earliest competitor.
- terminal-mac · github · 2026-11-03 · 2226 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- terminal-phone · github · 2026-11-03 · 134 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- dripfetch · github · 2026-09-10 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Otty · hn · 2026-06-17 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- lime · github · 2026-09-10 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Embed a real Linux terminal on your website · hn · 2026-08-14 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Terminal UI for AWS · hn · 2026-01-04 · 390 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Toast, a by default in-terminal IDE · hn · 2026-09-11 · 82 upvotes · similarity 0.50
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