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SSHL

Native SSH client for Mac: terminal and SFTP in one window

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SSHL is a free, open-source SSH client for macOS. A terminal, an SFTP file manager and a server monitor share one window. It is pure Rust: GPUI draws the interface on the GPU, the Ghostty core (libghostty-vt) does terminal emulation, and there is no WebView, so a cold start takes about 0.3 seconds. The file manager follows the terminal's directory, saved sudo passwords fill in one click, and hosts import from ~/.ssh/config. GPL-3.0.

PH · launched Nov 13, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views

Niche: remote access and protocol clients · 88 launches, 9 in the last 7 days ▲ +29% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Developer
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product
  • Mac
  • Open Source
  • Developer Tools
  • GitHub

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Could you build this?

Partial An SSH client with terminal, SFTP and monitoring is achievable with existing SSH libraries, but a native GPU-rendered Rust UI on GPUI with libghostty is a niche, low-level stack that vibe coding would struggle to produce reliably.

What it would actually take: The stack is Rust with the GPUI UI framework, libghostty-vt for terminal emulation, and an SSH library such as russh for transport, plus SFTP and metrics collection. The hard parts are GPU rendering, terminal correctness and macOS-native integration. This requires a systems programmer comfortable with Rust, FFI and low-level terminal behaviour.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 454 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #234 of 455 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 370 days after the earliest competitor.

  • easy-ssh · ph · 2026-11-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.75
  • BranchShell · ph · 2026-10-31 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.67
  • syncSCP · ph · 2026-10-27 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.66
  • All in Term · ph · 2026-11-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.66
  • OpenSesh · ph · 2026-10-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.65
  • SSHFlow · ph · 2026-10-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.64
  • SSHive · ph · 2026-10-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
  • shellwing · github · 2026-10-18 · 36 upvotes · similarity 0.59

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