ShellMate

ShellMate's import/onboarding story is the piece I'd test first, especially if it can pull an existing ~/.ssh/config into a cleaner vault without breaking aliases. For teams, the zero-knowledge vault and workspace model make sense, but the practical tradeoff is migration friction. Do you preserve ProxyJump, per-host identity files, and agent-forwarding settings when importing existing SSH config?

nice product!

does it work with completely air gapped environments with no internet access like isolated DBs?

The zero-knowledge vault for SSH credentials is architecturally sound. Most SSH managers store secrets in a way that the vendor could access them, so client-side encryption is the right call. We've dealt with credential sprawl ourselves: private keys shared over Slack is a scary common default. How does cross-device sync work under zero-knowledge constraints? Is the vault key derived from a passphrase with the encrypted blob synced, or something different?

SSH credential sprawl is genuinely painful when managing multiple environments across a team. The team-based access model makes sense: keeping prod keys isolated from staging is something everyone knows they should do but it's rarely implemented cleanly. How does key rotation work? Do you push updates to all hosts automatically, or does each server need a manual sync?

Clean take on an SSH client, and the zero-knowledge encrypted vault is reassuring for credentials. I like that sync is built in. For a solo dev not on a team, does the vault still sync across my own Macs without setting up any workspace stuff?

Hey Product Hunt! 👋

ShellMate started from a frustration I experienced almost every day while managing servers across multiple projects. Connecting through SSH was easy. Everything around it wasn't.

Server credentials lived in password managers. Notes were scattered across documents. Access details were shared through chat messages. Team onboarding was manual. Finding the right server or credential often took longer than connecting to it.

I kept asking myself, why is infrastructure management still spread across so many disconnected tools?

So I started building ShellMate.

ShellMate is more than an SSH client. It's a secure workspace for developers, system administrators, and DevOps teams to organize servers, manage credentials, collaborate with teammates, and access infrastructure from anywhere.

Some of the features I'm most excited about:
🔐 Zero-knowledge encrypted credential vault
⚡ Fast and modern SSH experience
🔄 Secure cross-device synchronization
👥 Team workspaces and collaboration
🖥️ Organized server and infrastructure management

I've spent countless hours building ShellMate as a solo founder, and this launch is a huge milestone for me.

I'd genuinely love your feedback:
👉 What's the biggest pain point in your current SSH or infrastructure workflow?
👉 What would make you switch from your current solution?

Thank you for checking out ShellMate and supporting independent makers!