BEbewuethr·Jul 24, 2026
lipgloss is pretty close: https://github.com/charmbracelet/lipgloss
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Style definitions for nice terminal layouts 👄
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11 sourcesGo libraries for making terminal UIs
- https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea
- https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbles
- https://github.com/charmbracelet/lipgloss
In The next generations of Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss, and Bubbles are available nowI noticed that Bubble Tea v2 [0] has been released. It looks like a great improvement all round over 1.x. The companion libraries lipgloss[1] and bubbles[2] have also had v2 releases.
[0] https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea/releases/tag/v2.0...
[1] https://github.com/charmbracelet/lipgloss/releases/tag/v2.0....
[2] https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbles/releases/tag/v2.0.0
In Release v2.0.0 · Charmbracelet/BubbleteaThey are using charm bracelet lip gloss and some others.
https://github.com/charmbracelet/lipgloss
In Show HN: AWS-doctor – A terminal-based AWS health check and cost optimizer in GoOh fun. Since this pokes at LLM I'll share my use case from last week. I built a similar(ish) tool locally (for personal use) as a CLI with an LLM. I download transactions from my bank and credit card, have it load them into a sqlite database, do some transformations (categorizing, grouping, excluding), and bottle up each command as a cli sub-command or flag. I used go, cobra, and the charm libs (to help with interactive labeling). I spent about a day on it to get it roughly usable, so I can drop in my updated transactions next month and get a basic report. Since the output is sqlite database and cli commands, I can also use claude code to ask it stuff, which was interesting because my original plan was to do all the asking myself and just have claude build the cli tool.
It works decently. I got out what i needed and fought very very hard
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to not go more all in / code dive, etc. I just needed my monthly expense totals, ordered, with some clean-up. The code is so-so, but it mostly got things working in a few shots. Claude being able to iteratively run commands / issue queries while it worked was key to it getting functional, I think. I love that it runs local and spits out plain text for tables and such; to share with my wife i copy pasted some of the output to a text document then added some comments (markdown).
If I hacked on it more, I'd probably re-work the architecture a bit; I think coming up with a good design about how to ingest idempotently, and then how you want to transform transactions (i.e. in place, vs setting up rules / overrides and then generating a computed transactions table) is most important. After each mini feature having the LLM document its usage in the README, and of course committing, was key. It made it very easy to ditch conversations and start new ones, and point to the README / examples (as opposed to compacting prior conversation).
I think your tool at $5 is a great value; I had TONS of fun making the CLI app but it still took me a few hours of focused work in the end spread over a day, and relied on me having very basic prior experience to help steer it. I bet you can charge more while still keeping the product focused / maintenance low, and absolutely think there's a strong need for it -> While I am super tempted to get crazy with my local app and / automating calculations (etc) ultimately just seeing the money in / out, a few categories that I can sum up (groceries, eating out), and the top 15 expenses, that's really all we need to get our budget in place. Kudos on building a real product, esp. on figuring out how to keep it focused, finding the niche, and recognizing the opportunity to capitalize!
EDIT: My actual deps list here.
require (
github.com/BurntSushi/toml v1.5.0
github.com/charmbracelet/bubbles v0.21.0
github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea v1.3.5
github.com/charmbracelet/huh v0.7.0
github.com/charmbracelet/lipgloss v1.1.0
github.com/charmbracelet/log v0.4.2
github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3 v1.14.22
github.com/spf13/cobra v1.10.1
)
"\033[31;1;4munderlines\033[0m" is (again) no worse than a stream of vertices or a stream of object code. Everything is a stream of bytes (well, a stream of bits anyway). Do you want CSS? Lipgloss is not too far off [0].
I read your objection basically as "escape sequences and control codes are noisy garbage"; are you saying something more like "the functionality you can achieve with escape sequences and control codes is fundamentally limited"? If that's the case, I don't see how, especially in the context of a character-based display.
[0]: https://github.com/charmbracelet/lipgloss?tab=readme-ov-file...
In State of the TerminalHey! I built the SSH app using charm tech:
- https://github.com/charmbracelet/wish
- https://github.com/charmbracelet/lipgloss
In Show HN: Lists.sh – A Microblog for Listslipgloss, the ANSI color library from Charm, has support for specifying different colors for light and dark terminals.
https://github.com/charmbracelet/lipgloss#adaptive-colors
In Charm – Tools to make the command line glamorousI can see the benefits of structured output from CLI tools. It’s a bit rare to find but they do exist. I believe the closest I have found in the wild is a terminal instance connecting to some 1980s mainframe tech.
There are also some FOSS tools aimed at increasing the readability of CLI tools
https://github.com/charmbracelet/lipgloss
Doesn’t offer tables (yet) but is about as good as it’s going to get.
For “easy mode” apps, isn’t this what GUI apps were made for? The old Java applets and apps using Swing/JavaFX or Qt are the ones that immediately come to mind.
In Posh: A Data-Aware ShellShow HN: Lip Gloss is a CSS-like layout library for the terminal for Go
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