orzma
a terminal emulator that renders webviews inside the terminal
Details
- External ID
- 48809267
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- orzma
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- July 6, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 9
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.505973715651135
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
I made this because I thought it would be useful to be able to use a webview in the terminal. I also provide an SDK called ratatui_orzma. For example, I think it could be used to render rich UI components such as charts with a webview as part of a TUI application, port web tools to ratatui, or embed games built with Wasm inside the terminal.
Enrichment
- Theme
- hardware hacking and device utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- terminal emulator with webviews
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Embedding and compositing WebViews inside a native terminal emulator and building a corresponding TUI framework adapter requires deep systems-level graphics, IPC, and terminal virtualization programming.
What it would actually take: The software is a custom terminal emulator (likely Rust with wgpu/OpenGL) embedding system WebViews (via WRY/WebKit or Chromium) rendered onto terminal pixel surfaces using Kitty/Sixel graphics protocols or subwindow overlays. The hard part is synchronizing the terminal grid character cell coordinates with arbitrary OS webview surfaces and managing low-latency input/compositing IPC.
Discussion
9 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Kitty graphics protocol, Terminal emulator extensions working group
Concerns raised: Lack of standardization across multiple terminals, Need for generic API to embed any window type, not just webviews
Feature requests: Support for alpha channel and non-rectangular shapes, Cross-terminal implementation standard, Generic embedding API similar to kitty graphics protocol
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 24 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #9 of 25 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 227 days after the earliest competitor.
- Go-TUI · hn · 2026-03-06 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Ferroterm · hn · 2026-07-05 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- PIXU · ph · 2026-09-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- Gotui · hn · 2025-12-11 · 49 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- jeyzma · github · 2026-09-27 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- A MCP for controlling terminal UI apps built with bubbletea and ratatui · hn · 2026-01-11 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- WebTerm · hn · 2026-01-18 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- Gridland: make terminal apps that also run in the browser · hn · 2026-03-24 · 111 upvotes · similarity 0.35
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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