Late.sh turns SSH keys into accounts for a terminal social club

Mateusz Piorowski's Rust app combines chat, games, radio, art and work profiles without passwords, OAuth or a conventional signup flow.

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Why it matters

Late.sh shows that a social product can replace conventional accounts with SSH identity and still support persistent profiles, chat and games. Its next test is sustained community use, not feature breadth.

Illustration of Late.sh's SSH key opening a bustling text-based terminal social club with chat, games, and user profiles.

Mateusz Piorowski shipped Late.sh v0.40.0 on July 21st, extending a terminal-based social space that asks new users to run one command: ssh late.sh. It arrived three and a half months after Piorowski publicly opened Late.sh in an April 7th launch post.…

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