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
- —
- 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.
Discussion
No comments on this launch.
Competitors
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Launched 293 days after the earliest competitor.
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