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I made a browser TUI with its own layout engine

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Try it at: ssh krnl.duetbrowser.comNo sign up, totally free - no download. Let me know what you think.Prior art exists (brow.sh) but I wasn't satisfied with their graphical take. I wanted the raw, old skool terminal days of the early internet - BBS, and old green phosphor library comptuers - but running the modern web, with all the bells and jingle jangle whistles (JavaScript, etc).No funding, no VC, just 100% raw terminal fun. Not sure how long the demo will last, but try it out.

HN · launched Jul 7, 2026 · 6 upvotes (top 71%) · 2 views

Niche: specialized and developer web browsers · 83 launches, 9 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Developer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

No Developing a custom layout and rendering engine to display complex web content inside a text-mode terminal interface over SSH requires deep domain expertise in browser architecture and terminal emulators.

What it would actually take: The project requires building a headless browser pipeline that ingests HTML/CSS/DOM trees, computes a custom terminal-grid layout model, and converts visual nodes into ANSI/VT100 escape sequences, running over an SSH daemon. The hard parts are the custom flexbox/box-model layout engine adapted for monospace character cells and handling interactive mouse/keyboard events over SSH in real time.

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Competitors

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Attention rank: #615 of 881 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 249 days after the earliest competitor.

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