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Concord

Discord in Terminal

Details

External ID
48409853
Source
HN
Company
—
Product
Concord
Website domain
github.com
Launched
June 5, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
10
Upvotes percentile
0.5935792349726776
Tags
—
Fetched at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.

Description

Concord(not that game) is TUI client for discord.Here are features: Login by token, email/password or QR code from the mobile appVim-style keys and full customizationMessaging, Voice chat supportAttachment downloads, uploadsReactions(Unicode + custom emoji), poll votingInline image previews via Kitty, iTerm2, or Sixel protocols (halfblock fallback for anything else)Avatar and custom emoji rendering, full-screen image viewerLive typing indicators, unread + mention countsDesktop notification

Enrichment

Theme
niche social and community platforms
Vertical
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Function
Communication
Audience
B2C
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
discord client for terminal
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Partial Building a TUI shell with Ratatui is straightforward, but fully reverse-engineering Discord's Gateway WebSockets, custom voice protocol (WebRTC/RTP with Opus and sodium crypto), and avoiding bans is technically demanding.

What it would actually take: The client requires a terminal UI framework (like Ratatui in Rust or Bubbletea in Go) paired with an async client for Discord's REST and WebSocket Gateway APIs. The tricky component is voice chat support: establishing UDP/WebRTC connections, handling Discord's proprietary voice handshake, encryption (XSalsa20/Poly1305), and real-time Opus encoding/decoding for terminal audio. This requires systems-level networking and audio protocol reverse-engineering skills.

Discussion

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Competitors

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Attention rank: #14 of 36 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 192 days after the earliest competitor.

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