Dev tools · alternatives · 2026

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Got Bored This Afternoon – Made a Terminal Emulator in HTML5 launched in 2014; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Black Screen▲215

   A terminal emulator with autocompletion based on Electron

   2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   WebTerm Learn▲139

   Learn the terminal like a game — in a browser sandbox

   Aug 2026 · learn.webterm.app · its alternatives →

3. 3WT
   Webbased Terminal Game▲5

   2020 · command-line.online · its alternatives →

4. 4AB
   A blog running on a terminal emulator▲6

   2019 · blog.jajoosam.repl.run · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Musikcube▲107

   A fully functional terminal-based music player

   2017 · musikcube.com · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Coherent UI▲89

   HTML5 GUI designed for real-time applications and games

   2015 · coherent-labs.com · its alternatives →

7. 7JC
   JS Cloud/Web Desktop I made in my spare-time▲5

   2013 · andersevenrud.github.com · its alternatives →

8. 8IM
   I made a browser TUI with its own layout engine▲6

   Try it at: ssh krnl.duetbrowser.com No sign up, totally free - no download. Let me know what you think. Prior art exists (brow.sh) but I wasn't satisfied with their graphical take. I wanted the raw, old skool terminal days of the early internet - BBS, and old green phosphor library comptuers - but running the modern web, with all the bells and jingle jangle whistles (JavaScript, etc). No funding, no VC, just 100% raw terminal fun. Not sure how long the demo will last, but try it out.

   Jul 2026 · its alternatives →

9. 9RM
   Rate my new HTML5 game, please▲8

   2014 · r2goo.com · its alternatives →

10. 10AU
    Among Us Ejection Web▲5

    A little web app I made for fun.

    2022 · among-us-ejection.netlify.app · its alternatives →

11. 11IM
    I made a stupid indoor cycling app for my command line▲8

    2022 · the-surge.app · its alternatives →

12. 12
    I made a collection of games for playing in a terminal▲5

    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 →

13. 13
    Terminal UI for GCP▲5

    Inspired by TAWS. Built as a learning exercise.

    Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

14. 14MW
    My weekend project - Etherpad + Repl.it▲9

    2013 · replpad.com · its alternatives →

15. 15US
    UI system completely painted on HTML5 Canvas (early demo)▲6

    2011 · codeclamp.com · its alternatives →

16. 16AA
    An Apple-like computer with a built-in BASIC interpreter in my game▲9

    2025 · reprobate.site · its alternatives →

17. 17WI
    Wicked Invaders: A 1980s-arcade-style game using HTML5 Canvas/Web Audio▲9

    2022 · susam.net · its alternatives →

18. 18M1
    My 12yo Dev This Game and Released to iOS/Android/HTML5 Using LibGDX▲9

    2015 · pizzascripters.com · its alternatives →

19. 19
    HTML, CSS and JavaScript in the Terminal▲9

    This is a model I’ve been thinking about lately. It demonstrates a pattern that I’m wondering could exist, where terminal applications, BBS-style shared user boards, and other expressions of creativity and sharing are created with web technologies but rendered into the terminal and accessed over SSH. I like that this brings back some kind of old days of the internet feeling and uses web technologies but sidesteps the public World Wide Web, even though it’s still on the internet. You can try it out too right now, and I’m thinking about making the self-hosting specialized applications part a…

    Jul 2026 · duetbrowser.com · its alternatives →

20. 20GB
    Game Boy on the Beam – A DMG Emulator in Pure Elixir▲6

    Jul 2026 · gb-dmg.live · its alternatives →

21. 21IM
    I Made a HTML5 Multiplayer Game Engine▲5

    Play games, publish yours, and build with the indie.fun SDK.

    2022 · modd.io · its alternatives →

22. 22IT
    I threw together a cute JavaScript sandbox for kids▲6

    2019 · howtocodejs.com · its alternatives →

23. 23MF
    My first webapp, a simple, very simple notepad.▲6

    2013 · dl.dropboxusercontent.com · its alternatives →

24. 242M
    280x280 Massively Multiplayer chess (Desktop only)▲5

    Made this to try out o1-preview, took ~40 prompts and 3 hours in total, with a fairly solid backed written in Go. Works pretty badly in Firefox apparently due to canvas-canvas copies being really slow, Chrome works great tho. Doesn't work well on mobile yet, and has some other minor issues, but overall it feels incredible to put together something like this so quickly.

    2024 · chess280.com · its alternatives →

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