# Outer Loop

5 Hacker News commenters recommended Outer Loop and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 2 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Lets people use a graphical SSH shell without sudo or opening anything new to the network. Several commenters say it is unclear what the product is.

## Why people recommend it

- Seen as interesting and cool (2 comments): "I think this is interesting from a few angles." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47903249)) "Your project is really cool." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48731901))

## What people warn about

- Unclear what the product is (2 comments): "I couldn't quite work out what the product is" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48722204)) "outer loop is super cool, but I don't get it" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48721834))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Mosh](https://hackerapproved.com/p/mosh.md): 61 recommend
- [SSH](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ssh.md): 57 recommend
- [Termius](https://hackerapproved.com/p/termius.md): 33 recommend
- [Moshi SSH and Mosh terminal for iOS](https://hackerapproved.com/p/moshi.md): 16 recommend
- [Echo SSH and mosh client for iOS](https://hackerapproved.com/p/echo-ios-ssh-and-mosh-client.md): 14 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Outer Loop", https://hackerapproved.com/p/outer-loop/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).