Inspired by the mysterious terminals in Severance, Terminal of Woe invites you to observe a grid of numbers and trust your intuition. Built on iPad and iPhone using Codea, and fully open-source. You are permitted to modify the work. Do not question the task.
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I just returned from 12 weeks of parental leave. Between the baby and the kids, I promised myself that before the end of my time off, I’d ship something. Something small, weird, and made in Codea — the coding app I built but don’t use nearly enough.
This project was my way to dogfood my own app — to approach it not as a developer, but as a user. I forced myself to resist the urge to debug, to poke into internals, or “just fix” something from the inside. Most of the time, I succeeded.
It wasn’t all smooth, but I loved the process. I wrote about it here: https://sim.coffee/a-week-eating...
Hope you enjoy the terminal. If you don't, file a complaint.
About Terminal of Woe on Product Hunt
“Enjoy each minute equally”
Terminal of Woe launched on Product Hunt on April 12th, 2025 and earned 235 upvotes and 15 comments, placing #4 on the daily leaderboard. Inspired by the mysterious terminals in Severance, Terminal of Woe invites you to observe a grid of numbers and trust your intuition. Built on iPad and iPhone using Codea, and fully open-source. You are permitted to modify the work. Do not question the task.
On the analytics side, Terminal of Woe competes within Funny, Open Source, GitHub and Games — topics that collectively have 219.4k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Terminal of Woe performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Terminal of Woe?
Terminal of Woe was hunted by Simeon. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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