PtyXL

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For the last while I've been heads-down on a side project that turned into something I actually use every day now. Why I started this I got tired of the "modern" SSH clients that quietly sync your host list, keys metadata, and sometimes session logs to a cloud backend. Convenient, sure, until their auth service has a bad day and you can't get into your own servers. I wanted something where my config lives in a file on my disk, my keys never leave my machine, and the whole thing works fully offline - coffee shop wifi, flaky VPN, doesn't matter. So I built it. Rust + Tauri + React under the hood, so it's a real native app, not an Electron wrapper pretending to be one. What it actually does SSH, SFTP, and serial in one client, dual-panel SFTP if you're moving files around a lot Session recording and snapshots, useful when you need to hand off or debug something later An assistant that helps with connection management and config - but it runs against local state, not a hosted API. No shipping your infra topology to someone else's inference endpoint just to get autocomplete. Recently shipped a "Provision Builder" - lets you wire up server configs and pipelines by connecting logic tiles instead of writing raw shell scripts by hand. Still early, but it's already saved me from a few dumb copy-paste mistakes. Where it's at right now It's genuinely early - I'm a solo dev on this, still shaping a lot of the roadmap based on whoever's willing to poke at it and tell me what's broken or missing. Free tier covers unlimited sessions, there's a Pro tier for people who want the heavier features, and I just put together a small program offering free Team access to early-stage startups (mostly because I remember what it's like trying to justify tool spend before you have revenue).