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Terminalwire
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Terminalwire is the company blog at terminalwire.com, writing about programming and systems. Since 2024, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Build command-line interface terminal apps in your favorite web application frameworks like Rails, Next.js, ASP.net, Spring, Phoenix, Django, and more.
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I did this with https://terminalwire.com/ I’m still tweaking the execution of the license, but in principle my thinking is, “if you’re using my software to make money, and you’re making a lot of money, you should probably be paying me to use my software”.
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on “Getting forked by Microsoft”Submitted Four choices for packaging Ruby binary distributions: How Tebako was selected as a story · 5 points
HN discussionIf you run a SaaS and want to rapidly build out a CLI that you could plug into this ~and~ want something that humans can use, check out the project I’ve been working on at https://terminalwire.com tl;dr—you can build & ship a CLI without needing an API. Just drop Terminalwire into your server, have your users install the thin client, and you’ve got a CLI. I’m currently focused on getting the distribution and develop…
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on “Model Context Protocol”Submitted Compile Ruby Apps with Tebako as a story · 4 points
HN discussionA big problem with CLI tooling is it starts off seeming like it’s an easy problem to solve from a devs perspective. “I’ll just write a quick Go or Node app that consumes my web app’s API” Fast forward 12-18 months, after several new features ship and several breaking API changes are made and teams that ship CLIs start to realize it’s actually a big undertaking to keep installed CLI software up-to-date with the API.…
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on “Claude Advanced Tool Use”Submitted Compile Ruby Apps with Tebako as a story · 3 points
HN discussionA few things: https://terminalwire.com streams a TUI/CLI from web apps without having to build an API and I recently finished 45 videos at https://beautifulruby.com/phlex , so now I’m talking more about them and Updating https://sitepress.cc to work with Rails 8.1 and thinking about another set of videos for it at https://beautifulruby.com/sitepress .
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on “Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)”Submitted Pick the Wrong Tool for the Job as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://terminalwire.com It’s “Hotwire for command-line apps”, meaning you can ship a CLI in a Rails app without building an API. The dream is to make it work for all major web frameworks. Terminalwire streams stdio, browser launch commands, and a few more things needs to ship a CLI for a SaaS quickly. The best part is when you want to ship a feature for the CLI, you don’t have to worry about pushing out updates to…
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on “Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)”Submitted Build Rails Apps with Components as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI started building an alternative to SSH at https://terminalwire.com that I think is more suitable for one-off commands run on a developer workstation against a SaaS. In more concrete terms, think of the stripe, heroku, and GitHub CLIs. It’s similar to SSH in that it streams stdio from the server to a thin-client, but that’s where the similarities end. It has additional commands, like open a browser to a URL and set…
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on “Open-sourcing OpenPubkey SSH (OPKSSH): integrating single sign-on with SSH”MCP has been a weird ride. I built https://terminalwire.com before MCP was a thing to make it way easier for people to add a CLI/TUI to their web apps/SaaS. Then MCP comes out and AI explodes, sucking all the air out of the room for non-AI tools. Now it seems like AI can work with CLIs better than MCP, so I’m tempted to slap AI integration all over the project to better convey the idea. It’s crazy how quickly MCP ha…
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on “What if you don't need MCP at all?”I'm working on a different approach that doesn't use ssh at https://terminalwire.com/ . It's meant for inherently server-based CLI's like Github, Stripe, Fly, Heroku, or any other SaaS and can be plugged directly into web frameworks. My thinking is that more companies would ship command-line interfaces if they didn't have to maintain APIs for them, deal with distributing binaries (and all the compatibility issues th…
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on “Show HN: Keypub.sh – OAuth for the terminal using SSH keys”I built https://terminalwire.com to make it easier for more web applications to ship CLIs like gh. Are there any web services like GH that you use in your workflow that don’t have decent AI integration that would benefit from a CLI interface?
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on “MCP Apps: Extending servers with interactive user interfaces”I built https://terminalwire.com around the idea that CLIs are a great way to interact with web applications. Turns out the approach works well for integrating web apps with LLMs. I have a payroll company using it in their stack to replace MCP and they’re reporting lower token usage and a better end result.
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on “MCP Apps: Extending servers with interactive user interfaces”I’ve been working on https://terminalwire.com to scratch my own itch making it easier to add command-line interfaces into my own web apps. If I pull this off, building out a CLI that’s as high quality as GitHub & Stripe’s should be trivial since it won’t require building out a web API and it can be dropped into existing web frameworks. It won’t be as fast as a CLI that runs locally, but that’s kinda not the point of…
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on “The Modern CLI Renaissance”