ssh.place - Collaborative pixel art canvas over SSH
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ssh.place is a unique collaborative art project that lets you draw on a shared canvas directly from your terminal using SSH. No account, no install—just connect with `ssh ssh.place` and start placing colored blocks. With a 200x60 grid and a 15-second cooldown per placement, it's a minimalist, real-time collaboration experience. Use arrow keys, WASD, or HJKL to move, scroll to pan, and pick from 16 colors. The canvas is color-only, so no text—just pure pixel art. Perfect for developers and terminal enthusiasts looking for a creative, low-friction way to collaborate.
One canvas. Everyone draws on it over SSH. No account, no install—just your SSH key and a shared space for creativity.
- 3dedb728-3f77
Hey, is it not just a simple honeypot reverse hack ssh server?
People understand that reverse hacking can happen when connecting to random ssh server, right?
- Tepix
Why is there no orange?
The entire colour palette is a bit depressing.
Also my terminal (Ubuntu in WSL2) had an ugly colour palette defined by default with several identical colours. I'm glad I found out!
Use this to check yours:
for i in {0..15}; do
printf "\e[48;5;%dm %2d \e[0m " "$i" "$i"; (( (i + 1) % 8 == 0 )) && echo;
done
and then press ctrl + , to change it.
- boomlinde
If you have a slight interest in originality of presentation, whatever website copy first comes out of Claude is not there yet. Its preoccupation with "no x, no y" and annoying runs of sentence fragments might have been a punchy rhetoric for a short while before it became a tired cliché, but by now it stylistically makes it look more like you're bragging on LinkedIn than presenting something fun and creative.
I mention it because it's immediately off-putting even though the project itself sounds fun enough. It tarnishes it with the impression that maybe you just don't care, but maybe you just aren't attuned to the style and its strong slop connotations.
I'm genuinely fascinated by the problem and I've wondered what in the training process causes the model to develop this peculiar style of writing. Is it because it's trained on old Medium slop? Someone else replied with a link to their SSH-based VPS, where the copy is absolutely saturated with the same annoying style.
- cbarrick
Are we coordinating factions here, like the original r/place? The social aspect was such a big part of the original. I'll start:
# PURPLE FRAME #
Our mission is to draw a purple frame around the canvas. 2 rows of blank space between the frame and the top/bottom of the canvas. 4 cols of blank space between the frame and the left/right of the canvas.
- cbarrick
I can't see my cursor if it is placed on top of a cell that has already been colored.
- jxmorris12
I love the idea. I couldn't get it to work; I navigated to (0,0) but didn't see a cursor; kept changing colors and trying to place blocks but saw nothing. Eventually my Ghostty crashed.
- messh
I love ssh apps! See also late.sh, and my own https://shellbox.dev
- bestony
So cool! If I wanted to make a similar product, how should I do it? Do you have any advice or research directions? I saw a company using SSH for hiring a couple of days ago, and I thought it was really cool. I also want to build something similar.