Dev tools · September 19, 2024
Poker over SSH
I've been interested in making a TUI application and learning Rust for a while now. Since some friends and family started playing poker, I found it a good opportunity to make my "learning Rust" project a poker TUI app. Inspired by https://github.com/shazow/ssh-chat, I also wanted to make something that could be connected to and played with just using SSH. For me, poker is usually with friends and family, so I focused the app's target audience to be private, small-scale games, avoiding the headaches associated with scaling to some massive web-based platform. Big thanks…
Poker over SSH launched on September 19, 2024 with 10 votes, #1,270 of 5,281 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.
In plain words
Poker over SSH is a terminal-based poker application built in Rust that allows players to join games remotely using only SSH connections. Designed for small private games among friends and family, it provides a lightweight alternative to web-based poker platforms. Players can connect to a game server and play together without complex setup or scaling requirements.
written from the facts on this page · September 2026
From the sources
A poker library, server, client, and TUI. Contribute to theOGognf/private_poker development by creating an account on GitHub.
In the maker’s words, at launch
I've been interested in making a TUI application and learning Rust for a while now. Since some friends and family started playing poker, I found it a good opportunity to make my "learning Rust" project a poker TUI app. Inspired by https://github.com/shazow/ssh-chat, I also wanted to make something…
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