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sshoosh is a self-hosted workspace chat that opens directly inside SSH. Users connect with SSH keys and get a dense terminal UI for channels, threads, DMs, notifications, mentions, reactions, unread state, search, exports, and administration. It runs as one Rust binary with SQLite/libSQL, one SSH host key, and optional app-level encryption.
Hey Product Hunt,
I like tools that are easy to run and easy to inspect. A lot of team software gets heavy quickly: browser app, hosted account model, workspace setup, service dependencies, and a long list of operational assumptions.
sshoosh is an experiment in the other direction.
It is a workspace chat served over SSH. Users connect with SSH keys and the terminal becomes the product. The server is one Rust binary. State lives in SQLite/libSQL. Runtime identity is one SSH host key. You can run it locally, on a LAN, behind Tailscale, in Docker, or as a small VPS daemon.
Inside the TUI you get the normal pieces of team chat: channels, threads, DMs, mentions, notifications, reactions, unread state, search, saved messages, labels, exports, and admin/audit flows. The interface is dense on purpose. It is meant for people who work in terminals and want the workspace to stay close to the systems they operate.
The auth design is SSH-native. Unknown keys must redeem a bootstrap, invite, or device-link token through masked keyboard-interactive auth before any account/key row is written. Tokens are not parsed out of usernames, sent through password auth, or meant to sit in shell history.
It is early, but usable. I am mostly looking for sharp feedback
Docs and install:
https://puemos.github.io/sshoosh/
GitHub:
https://github.com/puemos/sshoosh
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About sshoosh on Product Hunt
“A tiny TUI Slack-replacement over SSH”
sshoosh was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 5 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #21 on the daily leaderboard. sshoosh is a self-hosted workspace chat that opens directly inside SSH. Users connect with SSH keys and get a dense terminal UI for channels, threads, DMs, notifications, mentions, reactions, unread state, search, exports, and administration. It runs as one Rust binary with SQLite/libSQL, one SSH host key, and optional app-level encryption.
sshoosh was featured in Productivity (651.7k followers), Open Source (68.4k followers), GitHub (41.2k followers) and Chat rooms (600 followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 165.8k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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