ShellMate is a modern SSH workspace built for developers, system administrators, and DevOps teams. Connect to unlimited servers with tabs, split terminals, SFTP, snippets, session sharing, and AI-powered assistance, all in one native desktop app for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Free forever for individual users without AI features, with affordable plans for teams that need collaboration and AI.
Hey Product Hunt! 👋
I'm excited to relaunch ShellMate today.
Like many developers, I spend hours inside SSH sessions every day. Existing clients either felt outdated, overloaded with enterprise features, or required subscriptions just to manage a few servers comfortably.
I started building ShellMate to create the SSH client I wanted to use myself, fast, modern, and focused on developer productivity.
Since the first release, I've added a lot based on community feedback:
• Native apps for Windows, macOS, and Linux
• Unlimited SSH connections
• Split terminals and tab management
• Built-in SFTP file manager
• Snippets and reusable commands
• Team collaboration features
• AI assistance for troubleshooting and command generation
• Better performance and a cleaner UI
One thing that's important to me is pricing. Individual developers can use ShellMate forever for free (without AI features), while teams only pay if they need collaboration or AI capabilities.
This is still just the beginning. I'm actively working on Docker management, database tools, log viewing, service management, and more features to make ShellMate a complete server workspace.
I'd genuinely love your feedback—good or bad. Every suggestion helps shape what comes next.
Thanks for checking out ShellMate! ❤️
appreciate the straight answer on that, not every maker admits the current state honestly like that. good tip on skipping the saved passphrase too - makes sense as a stopgap until the zero-knowledge version ships
Congrats on the launch! Credentials sprawl is the part nobody warns you about until you are three machines deep. Is the team side aimed at small teams sharing a handful of boxes, or bigger setups with proper access rules?
On the AWS side of a fleet, the direction has been away from distributing SSH credentials at all. Session Manager gives you no inbound port 22, IAM as the authz layer, and CloudTrail for the audit trail, which overlaps a fair bit with what permission-aware access and auditable connection controls are solving here.
Can ShellMate open a session through SSM, or is the connection model fundamentally key-based?
Really respect the answer to Gal's question about credential encryption, admitting it's not zero-knowledge yet instead of overselling the current architecture, and being upfront that you'd rather build the zero-trust version properly than rush it. That's a rare level of honesty for a tool asking people to trust it with production infrastructure. Also like the pricing call, free forever for individuals, only teams pay for AI/collaboration. Congrats on the relaunch
The permission-aware team access plus auditable connection controls is what I'd use for managing community infrastructure — shared SSH access with a visible trail matters more than fancy features when you're onboarding contributors who need quick server access for a launch. The first thing I'd test is whether you can scope a credential to a specific remote user account rather than just a specific server, since giving a contributor access to one server but not root on it is a common requirement for developer communities. Does that granularity live at the ShellMate credential level, or does it rely entirely on how the SSH config is set up on the server itself?
a centralized vault for SSH credentials across a whole team is a really juicy target if it's ever compromised, basically a master key to every server the team touches. what's the actual encryption model here, is it end-to-end so ShellMate itself never sees plaintext credentials, or does the server hold keys that could decrypt everything if you got breached?
congrats on the relaunch, solid feature list for a solo build. question on the "server-managed encrypted credentials" part since you're tagged as a password manager too - if your server ever got compromised, could whoever broke in actually decrypt stored SSH credentials, or is it architected so you (the ShellMate team) never hold the keys either? that's usually the deciding factor for me before I'd trust a tool with root access to a bunch of servers.
About ShellMate on Product Hunt
“The SSH workspace you'll actually enjoy using”
ShellMate launched on Product Hunt on July 25th, 2026 and earned 105 upvotes and 21 comments, placing #10 on the daily leaderboard. ShellMate is a modern SSH workspace built for developers, system administrators, and DevOps teams. Connect to unlimited servers with tabs, split terminals, SFTP, snippets, session sharing, and AI-powered assistance, all in one native desktop app for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Free forever for individual users without AI features, with affordable plans for teams that need collaboration and AI.
ShellMate was featured in Productivity (657.8k followers), Developer Tools (517.1k followers) and Password manager (600 followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 230.1k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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