Quarter
A TUI launcher to browse, search and launch your games
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Quarter sits on top of the launcher client you already have. It grabs your library and hands every action back to the launcher, there's no login or password, no API key or data collection. Your client does everything else.Quarter is just a fast shortcut to play your favorite games from the terminal you live in every day. That was my main mission when I created Quarter; just insert quarter, pick a game, press Enter.Written in Go with Bubble Tea, reads Steam's own files on disk; game logos are drawn as pictures in the terminal using Sixel (terminals that don't support it will have a text fallback).Steam today; Epic, GOG, EA and more launchers next.Tested on Windows 11 with Windows Terminal. Did automated checks on Linux and Mac; but no tests as a real human with Steam installed, I appreciate the feedback a lot.What launcher would you like next?
HN · launched Nov 1, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 86%) · 0 views
Niche: application and game launchers · 233 launches, 5 in the last 7 days ▼ -84% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes A terminal UI that reads installed game libraries and delegates launching to existing clients is a small local tool built on file parsing and TUI libraries.
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Competitors
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Attention rank: #93 of 101 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 359 days after the earliest competitor.
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