elio
A fast, free and open-source terminal and SSH client for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS and Android.
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GITHUB · launched Nov 12, 2026 · 84 upvotes (top 48%) · 0 views
Niche: remote access and protocol clients · 88 launches, 10 in the last 7 days ▼ -9% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 88 launches in remote access and protocol clients →
Could you build this?
Partial A basic SSH client is buildable with existing libraries, but a polished, fast terminal emulator across Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android needs terminal-emulation and mobile-platform expertise that vibe coding alone won't supply.
What it would actually take: The stack would combine a VT/xterm-compatible terminal emulator core (often in a systems language or an existing library like libghostty or xterm.js), a native SSH implementation such as libssh2 or Rust/Go bindings, and per-platform UI shells. The hard parts are correct terminal emulation and rendering performance, secure key and credential storage per OS, and iOS/Android background and keyboard constraints, which require systems and mobile engineers.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 2667 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1287 of 2668 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 377 days after the earliest competitor.
- platty · github · 2026-10-13 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.80
- shellwing · github · 2026-10-18 · 36 upvotes · similarity 0.77
- Reminal · hn · 2026-07-01 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- OxiSH, a modern, memory-safe SSH server · hn · 2026-08-13 · 28 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- Desktui · hn · 2026-07-25 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Hatoba · github · 2026-10-07 · 49 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- elixos · github · 2026-10-10 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Chuchu, an Android SSH client built on libghostty · hn · 2026-05-09 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.63
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