wib - What is that bash?
Your shell history, surfaced the moment you start typing.
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You already know the command. You ran it yesterday. You just can’t remember whether it was --force-with-lease or -f, which port you mapped, or the exact path to that config file. Today you press Ctrl-R and play guess-the-substring, scroll up through hundreds of lines with ↑, or retype an 80-character docker run from memory. Every tool that helps makes you stop and open a search screen first: you have to realise you need to search before you can search.
PH · launched Nov 5, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views
Niche: developer command-line tools · 226 launches, 5 in the last 7 days ▼ -67% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Developer Tools
- Tech
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Could you build this?
Yes A shell history search tool with fuzzy matching and shell hooks is a CLI utility that can be written in Go or Rust with standard libraries. It is well-scoped and self-contained.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 106 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #66 of 107 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 371 days after the earliest competitor.
- Bashr.run · ph · 2026-10-31 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Hc: an agentless, multi-tenant shell history sink · hn · 2026-01-16 · 43 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- ShellTalk brings deterministic text-to-bash · hn · 2026-04-22 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Pianoterm · hn · 2026-03-02 · 61 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Witr · hn · 2025-12-26 · 526 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- A "Cram tests" script for windows shells · hn · 2025-11-26 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- luish · ph · 2026-10-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Backspace · ph · 2026-09-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38
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