Terminal Typeracer

Typeracer in the terminal over ssh!

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Made in <24 hours for a hackathon. I won the "Spirit of the Hackathon" award 🎉

Try it out at

ssh 45.55.159.44 -p 23234

Use ctrl-c to quit

typeracer.mp4

Inspiration

typeracer and terminal.shop

What it does

You can play typeracer in the terminal over ssh

How I built it

Bubbletea and lots of love

Challenges I ran into

I Severely underestimated how much time I had to do this. Luckily I managed to get an MVP without too much trouble.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

• Wrote my own networking protocol using just raw TCP.
• Working ssh server that I can go onto whenever I want

What I learned

i got some more experience with go and I learned how to host things outside of my local network

What's next for Terminal Typeracer

Clean up the UI, make it easier to join and leave lobbies

Running locally

Clone the repo and cd into the project directory. Then, open two terminals and run

# Terminal 1
go run ./cmd/server

# Terminal 2
go run ./cmd/ssh

Alternatively, you can do the following in one terminal session

go run ./cmd/server & go run ./cmd/ssh

After starting the server and ssh handler, you can do ssh localhost -p 23234 to connect.