ttyd
Share your terminal over the web
Details
- External ID
- 48819864
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- ttyd
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- July 7, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.1081242532855436
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
ttyd is a simple command-line tool for sharing terminal over the web.Use case: doing a demo, mostly presenting from a browser, and need a terminal window to demonstrate something? Open one directly in a browser tab via ttyd so that you don't need to share your entire desktop.
Enrichment
- Theme
- file transfer and sharing tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- web-based terminal sharing
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Binding a local PTY process to a WebSocket server and rendering it via xterm.js in the browser is a standard, well-documented architecture that AI coding assistants can generate readily.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: ssh
Concerns raised: security
Feature requests: web user terminal control, terminal session sharing for debugging
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 53 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #48 of 54 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 237 days after the earliest competitor.
- Tt · hn · 2026-01-06 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Embed a real Linux terminal on your website · hn · 2026-08-14 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- CMDrop · ph · 2026-09-08 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- tty7 · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- frp_pyd · github · 2026-09-23 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- SSH Quick Commands · ph · 2026-09-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- termdeck · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Command Vault · ph · 2026-09-28 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.38
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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