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Open Terminal

global chat built with WebSockets

Details

External ID
49373862
Source
HN
Company
—
Product
Open Terminal
Website domain
vercel.app
Launched
Aug. 20, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
5
Upvotes percentile
0.12634408602150538
Tags
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Fetched at
Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Updated at
Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.

Description

It uses WebSockets for real time messaging, so conversations appear instantly as people join and chat.The interface is inspired by a terminal, but there are no commands to learn. Just open it and start talking to people around the world.Update: The deployment issue is fixed. Open Terminal is now fully operational. If you tried it earlier and it wasn't working, it should work now. Thanks to everyone who checked it out.

Enrichment

Theme
niche social and community platforms
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Communication
Audience
Developer
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
websocket-based global chat
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Yes A real-time global chat room styled like a terminal using standard WebSockets and a Node.js/Go backend is a classic, straightforward weekend vibe-coding project.

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Competitors

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Attention rank: #88 of 98 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 293 days after the earliest competitor.

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