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islechat

tiny chat server powered by SSH

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What it is

tiny chat server powered by SSH

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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Also in these discussions

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by day2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2025-12-31 14:10:47 UTC to 2026-01-31 18:44:39 UTC.

012025-12-31 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsDec 312026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-02 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-04 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-05 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-07 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-07 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-14 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsJan 152026-01-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-26 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-28 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-28 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-31 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-31 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsJan 31

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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Dec 312025-12-31 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
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What Hacker News says

2 sources
ashfn·Dec 31, 2025Submission

Show HN: I made islechat, like Slack but in the terminal over SSH

You can try it out with ` ssh username@isle.chat ` Enter a password to use on first join. It features a slack/discord style interface with channels on the left and users on the right. You can create and join your own channels, and upload ascii art to be the channels banner which shows in the top right. Auth is user/pass only for now but plan to add support for uploading your pub key if you want to use that instead. Code is here if you want to self host or look at screenshots https://github.com/ashfn/islechat If you want to design a banner for your channel there is an editor here https://islechat.github.io/banner.html
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