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Yeah, the idea is that almost everyone's first computer program is a terminal program along the lines of:

  name = input('What is your name?\n')
  print('Hi, %s.' % name)
(https://name.amasad.repl.run/)

Every programmer has experienced an intense sense of accomplishment when someone uses their program. The problem is that, until today, there was no easy way to share text and terminal-based programs.

The bar to sharing apps shouldn't be GUI as it remains really really hard.



It's really awesome. The first time I saw a web interface like this was on the Mr Robot website (www.whoismrrobot.com). Ironically, it looks like they've updated the site since then with a GUI. But originally it included a DOS-like terminal. It was such a fun page. Really good UX in the sense that it's playful and instantly recognizable with a nostalgic feel to anyone who's ever tried to hack software. I ended up creating my own JS-based console-based interface for a side project, not released yet. It's kind of genius that you guys have an even simpler way for people to launch these.


Thank you!

On Mr. Robot we have a few references to it on the website including this very post. See the last video on the page, zoom in on the top-left corner ;)




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