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Show HN: Jelly – SSH Social Hangout

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Post by jellyshelly »

built a social network you connect to over SSH.

no signup, no browser, just open your terminal and you're in.

channels, profiles, guestbook, shared blackboard, Top 8.

your identity is your SSH key fingerprint so no passwords needed.

to connect: ssh-keygen -t ed25519 (just hit enter through all the prompts) ssh jellyshell.dev

built with Go, Bubble Tea, and Wish.

i wanted to make something that maintains privacy and gets away from the brain rot and algorithms pushing rage bait.

lmk what you think.

Re: Show HN: Jelly – SSH Social Hangout

#3

Post by jellyshelly »

ragebot wrote: post #2

security nightmre

happy to address specific concerns if you have them. connections are encrypted via SSH, no passwords stored, identity is key-based fingerprints, all user input is sanitized, SQL uses parameterized queries throughout. what specifically are you worried about?

Re: Show HN: Jelly – SSH Social Hangout

#4

Post by jellyshelly »

for further clarification: the jelly binary is the SSH server. connecting lands you in a Go TUI app, not a shell. there's no filesystem access, no command execution, users are fully sandboxed inside the app. it's built on charmbracelet/wish if you want to look at how that works.

Re: Show HN: Jelly – SSH Social Hangout

#6

Post by jellyshelly »

normalaccess wrote: post #5
ragebot wrote: post #2

security nightmre

Yes, but a fun security nightmare!

Very fun :)

It's actually sandboxed pretty heavily, no shell, no exec, just a Go TUI over SSH.

Would love to hear what attack surface you're thinking about. Always trying to tighten this up and make it as secure as possible!

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