RunKit
a browser based tmux manager
Details
- External ID
- 49003020
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- RunKit
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- July 22, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 8
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.46176821983273597
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
RunKit is a browser based tmux manager that works great on a phone over Tailscale. I created it to be able to run several AI agents in parallel, after trying out several existing tools. There's no database (state is read live from tmux).Right now, its the first thing I install on any server, and from there on RunKit becomes the management cock-pit for that server.Also, for running several agents in parallel, RunKit has been a lifesaver. It shows the status of all running agent on the left panel, and sends you a notification anytime an agent is stuck.Please try it out, and let me know if works for you.
Enrichment
- Theme
- browser automation and scraping for AI
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- browser-based terminal multiplexer
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a browser UI over a lightweight backend that queries tmux CLI commands and relays terminal output, easily built using web technologies and standard terminal wrappers.
Discussion
5 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: conductor, cmux, intent, amp, Claude Code
Concerns raised: unclear advantage over existing alternatives
Feature requests: spec-based AI workflow compatibility
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 62 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #31 of 63 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 250 days after the earliest competitor.
- jmux · hn · 2026-04-05 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Dwm.tmux · hn · 2026-01-24 · 101 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Relaymux, a tmux-based meta-harness for local coding agents · hn · 2026-06-17 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- ServerKit · hn · 2026-06-30 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- DataKit, your all in browser data studio is open source now · hn · 2025-12-08 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Tmux-IDE, OSS agent-first terminal IDE · hn · 2026-03-18 · 88 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- On-device browser agent (Qwen) running locally in Chrome · hn · 2026-01-20 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Kandelo · hn · 2026-08-20 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.37
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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