--- title: "Superlogical" url: https://daily.dev/posts/superlogical-slrjyapk1 source_url: https://mitchellh.com/writing/superlogical type: article source: "Mitchell Hashimoto" published: 2026-07-29T15:39:03.483Z updated: 2026-07-29T17:29:04.510Z tags: ["open-source", "startup"] reading_time: 4 upvotes: 23 comments: 2 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Superlogical **[Mitchell Hashimoto](https://daily.dev/sources/mitchellh)** · 4 min read · 23 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary Mitchell Hashimoto, co-founder of HashiCorp and creator of the Ghostty terminal emulator, announces a new company called Superlogical. The company will start by shipping a terminal multiplexer, built on top of libghostty (the MIT-licensed library powering Ghostty). Hashimoto explains his journey since leaving HashiCorp in 2023 — focusing on family, philanthropy, and building Ghostty — and how his curiosity about the future of terminal usage led him to found Superlogical. Ghostty itself remains a non-profit with no commercialization plans. Superlogical is hiring and offering newsletter sign-ups for beta access. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community take How the wider developer community reacted, aggregated from 1 discussion and 39 comments across hackernews (as of 2026-07-29). **TL;DR:** The community is cautiously excited about Mitchell Hashimoto's new venture Superlogical, which appears to be building an advanced terminal multiplexer, but significant discussion centers on skepticism about the large number of early investors and concerns about some of those investors' politics and character. **Sentiment:** 30% positive · 40% mixed · 30% skeptical **The case for** - Mitchell Hashimoto has a strong track record building widely-used dev tools (Vagrant, Terraform, Ghostty), lending credibility to the venture. - The decision to transfer Ghostty to a non-profit and build on libghostty as an open MIT-licensed dependency is seen as a positive, community-friendly move. - Investors can provide accountability, recruiting legitimacy, and strategic value beyond just capital. - There is genuine room to improve the fragmented terminal/multiplexer ecosystem, and a well-funded effort to standardize it could benefit everyone. **The pushback** - Several commenters are uncomfortable with specific investors, particularly Tobias Lutke (criticized for anti-democratic views) and Guillermo Rauch. - The large number of early investors raises concerns about VC-driven market access replacing genuine product-market fit discovery. - The product vision is seen by some as potentially over-engineered for a problem solvable with simpler tools (e.g., a log.md file). - Some question why a billionaire would need 15 investors rather than self-funding, implying forced market access as the real motive. **By community** - hackernews (mixed): Commenters are split between genuine excitement for Hashimoto's track record and the product vision, and skepticism about the investor roster, the necessity of heavy VC backing, and the politics of specific backers. **Hottest debate:** Whether taking money from 15 investors this early is a savvy strategic move or a sign that VC-driven market access is replacing organic product-market fit. **Open questions** - What exactly will Superlogical's product look like and how will it differ meaningfully from tmux/mosh/zellij? - What is the licensing model — will it remain open source or go commercial? - Why did Hashimoto choose to take on so many investors rather than self-fund given his net worth? **Highlights** > I'm sorry to take it out on this specific announcement, as it just seems to be one of many "offenders", but why are the 15 investors listed on an announcement blog post of a semi-stealth startup? With most of them being VC or high-count angel investors, they can combined push whatever product is being built here into 200+ companies independent of whether it is good or not. What happened to the good old way of figuring out product market fit first? Is that the only way a product can succeed nowadays, or why else would a ~billionair that could easily fund it himself pull in that many investors that early? --- I'm excited to see what Superlogical will build, but the startup scene seems to grow more clique-y by the day. > — [hobofan on hackernews · 6 comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49099835) > I really like the bit where he transferred ownership of Ghostty to a non-profit, and is now building this new company on that as an open source dependency: > We will build on libghostty exactly as it was designed to be used: as a public building block for terminal applications. Superlogical will consume the same MIT-licensed components available to everyone else, and we will continue to upstream shared terminal work so every libghostty consumer can benefit. > — [simonw on hackernews](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49100329) > I really wish mitchellh wouldn't take funding from some of these people. Tobias Lutke in particular has chronically been on the wrong side of fundamental issues, and has most recently advocated for a pay-to-play version of democracy where wealth determines your ability to participate (and in particular your "stake" in the democracy). > — [\_verandaguy on hackernews · 4 comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49100038) > "Any sufficiently VC-funded AI startup will inevitably try to re-invent a log.md file" - Spongebob Squarepants > — [klas\_segeljakt on hackernews](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49100219) > I feel like the main benefit of such a thing would be centralization. Part of the issue with the terminal ecosystem is precisely that everything's so fragmented and everybody needs to support arcane terminal protocols and wrap a billion wrappers around each other. The easiest way to solve this is to be a definer yourself rather than an integrator, which I think is what this is trying to be. If we could actually have standardized terminal extensions in one place (you'd be surprised how many extension codes there are in terminal land) that has a different semantics not from the 80s, but still captures the terminal experience, that would be great. The 'cleanest' experience I've got for what I want is mosh + tmux and even that has issues (no block cursor for example). If superlogical's ultimate goal is to revamp the Linux developer ecosystem, all for it. Am potentially worried long term about these kinds of strategies from a political point of view but as long as things stay open source and stay as local dev tools, its fine. > — [sigbottle on hackernews](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49100392) **Source threads** - [hackernews](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49099015) · 45 points · 39 comments ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@tilman151** · 1 upvotes > You need to SSH into one of their systems to see the job openings. That's unconventional 😁 **@khauma** · 0 upvotes > Hell yeah!!! ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Dev who gave HashiCorp its name returns with a faster terminal multiplexer](https://daily.dev/posts/dev-who-gave-hashicorp-its-name-returns-with-a-faster-terminal-multiplexer-f0p4xfvgn) · DEVCLASS · 23 upvotes · 2 comments - [Superlogical](https://daily.dev/posts/superlogical-xwxkbiv8n) · Hacker News · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#startup](https://daily.dev/tags/startup) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/superlogical-slrjyapk1)