Show HN: Seashells – Pipe output from CLI apps to the web in real time

Hi HN! I made a service to enable me to easily monitor long-running experiments (e.g. training neural nets). I thought it would be generally useful, so I'm opening it up to the public. I'm curious to hear what you all think! Read a little bit more about the motivation here, if you're interested: http://www.anishathalye.com/2017/07/10/seashells/

I created something similar years ago and it's open source: https://stream.ht/ Try it out, you can pipe your terminal: exec > >(nc stream.ht 1337) 2>&1 Or just pipe a file: tail -F file.log | nc stream.ht 1337 Pipe htop (delay is required to see share url) (sleep 5; htop) | nc stream.ht 1337 Doesn't require installing anything! Requires netcat which is installed on most *nix systems but you can use a plain tcp socket connection to pipe data too: exec…

Just sayin' you can do something like this in bash out of the box... Don't let me spoil the party though, the more the merrier. https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Redirecti... "/dev/tcp/host/port If host is a valid hostname or Internet address, and port is an integer port number or service name, Bash attempts to open the corresponding TCP socket. /dev/udp/host/port If host is a valid hostname or Internet address, and port is an integer port number or service name, Bash attempts to open the…

Cool, reminds me a bit about streamhut.io