How I made my terminal website đŸ‘¾
In this first‑person walkthrough, the creator explains how they built a personal website that runs entirely in the terminal (a TUI). The idea originated from a post by Zach, which they fed to an AI assistant named Manus to generate a project plan. They set up a codebase, installed dependencies, and generated an SSH host key. For the frontend they chose the Ink library, which lets React components render in command‑line interfaces. Visual assets were created using an ASCII image converter for a portrait and Figlet fonts for a stylized name; the final font was selected via a community poll. The design mockup was handed to Claude Code, an AI code generator, to produce the initial frontend, followed by several local design iterations. Deployment was handled with Fly.io, and a custom domain was linked through DNS so the site can be accessed via an SSH command. The creator reflects on the underexplored nature of terminal user interfaces compared to GUIs and invites viewers to try building their own.
