Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Amateurminal: Terminal for Amateurs
Windows XP simulator with Matrix-themed terminal riddle game
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Hi hi, I made a little Halloween themed game this week to show off my new terminal. You can play it in the browser. at https://joel.tools/halloween/ Two years ago, I started building an experiment tracking tool for myself as I have been venturing into ai research, and it has morphed into a terminal with rich content support and a bunch of fancy features. https://github.com/JoelEinbinder/snail/ I can't recommend people start using snail for important stuff today, but I think the game is fun and it shows off a lot of the capabilities of the…
2023 · joel.tools · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I hacked together this fun project that lets you play any article on the front page of Hacker News as an interactive text game. You can create a game about anything by going to infinityarcade.com/ You can also use a URL, which is what this page uses. The whole thing is open source: https://github.com/themaximal1st/InfinityArcade
2023 · infinityarcade.com · its alternatives →
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A copilot for your terminal. Contribute to cloudycotton/whiz development by creating an account on GitHub.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Terminal multiplexer inspired by i3. Contribute to aaronjanse/3mux development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A serious terminal emulator with a stupid name. Contribute to pg83/shitty development by creating an account on GitHub.
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey everyone, I have been trying to build a terminal based app for sometime now and this is an attempt at trying to build a chess app that one can play right inside terminal. I was inspired by `chess-tui`[1] which is a rust based project and was looking to build something similar using python. Luckily I stumbled upon textual[2] recently and it made my task of building this far more easier than I thought. [1] https://github.com/thomas-mauran/chess-tui [2] https://github.com/textualize/textual
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Terminal Candy▲117A native macOS terminal you can skin and theme
Aug 2026 · terminalcandy.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HackerNews, I'm Kaamkiya, the author of this program. It's a collection of minimal games made for terminals, like 2048, Hangman, and even two player games like pong. They're all text-based, but they can actually be quite fun. If you want to test it right now, you can do this: go run github.com/Kaamkiya/gg@latest I started this project out of boredom, honestly. I was bored, and when I'm bored I like to code or play video games. So I coded video games. I kept them really minimal though, because I'm not great at gamedev and thought it would be easier to contribute to text-based…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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APX Terminal▲99Encrypted terminal and SSH client with built‑in AI assistant
Jan 2026 · apxterminal.com · its alternatives →
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A GNU screen style terminal multiplexer built on libghostty. - coder/boo
Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Ride the line as your AI model turn every run into Glory.
Jul 2026 · mourad-ghafiri.github.io · its alternatives →
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Chat roulette in your command line
2019 · us-central1-your-boss.cloudfunctions.net · its alternatives →
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Quadrant▲62A trippy rhythm game with increasing difficulty!
2016 · quadrantgame.com · its alternatives →
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Hi, I have created a terminal app for wordle that has web like experience. In particular, it has keyboard hints and guess reveal animations. The idea is to able to play wordle in the terminal offline (and continuously if needed). This is also kind of a Rust learning project for me, and my first public rust project. The terminal game is built with ratatui framework, which is great. I find it interesting that you can model a tui with `The Elm Architecture - TEA` principles for the terminal. Feedbacks are welcome, particularly if you are a wordle person. Have a nice day!
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I'm sorry/not sorry for creating this.
2022 · thetypingoftheregex.com · its alternatives →
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I was having way too much free time even when i was working on 6-7 different projects at the same time with claude code and codex. Staring at the terminal when agents are cooking code for you was just too boring in the last 6-7 months so had to look for fun little side quests and ended up building a terminal arcade, it is still in its infancy and more of a personal hobby project. Out of all things, i ended up liking the bookshelf a lot when I built the post tool hook where i get a quote from a book for every 5th tool call, learning about new books became my daily habit now. It is open…
May 2026 · twitter.com · its alternatives →
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A minesweeper clone in the terminal, written in Elixir. - kevin-hanselman/mines
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN. I built 1667 for my own fiction work and now use it each day. This probably has a limited audience. Maybe an audience of one... Why a terminal interface for story writing? I'm a dev. I like to use terminals for a lot of stuff. Most WebUIs feel off to me. That's the only reason. One thing that bothers me about writing in existing tools is that they don't fit the way I write. The mental model of my story is a tree. I try many takes usually continue with just one, but sometimes I want to try an alternate route and see where this goes. And that can branch again in many places. See what…
Aug 2026 · 1667.ai · its alternatives →
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So, I've never written a line of Rust in my life. I wouldn't know an `&mut this` from a mutandis. But I saw a tweet about a month ago that said, in this new era of AI, you'd be able to just take a library that you love, throw a TUI around it, and call it an app. So I spent about 200 bucks last month, here's what I came up with: Imbolc is a DAW that runs entirely in your terminal. It talks to scsynth over OSC and ships 58 instruments and 39 effects. VSTs are a work in progress, also GarageBand loops if you want to recreate "Umbrella". The codebase is about 60k? lines of Rust across 5 crates,…
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A cool initiative to find the best developers for your team
2016 · efounders.co · its alternatives →
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2025 · matrix.repello.ai · its alternatives →
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