pico.sh
Ranked 6 of 6 web hosts by recommenders
Developer services run over SSH with a seamless experience for people who already use SSH, plus a low-cost $2/mo membership.
Developer services run over SSH with a seamless experience for people who already use SSH, plus a low-cost $2/mo membership.
5 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 8 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 8 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Seamless for developers already using SSH
“The entire experience is pretty seamless since all developers use SSH anyway.”
Comment from 5 Jan 2026 in “Show HN: Terminal UI for AWS” “SSH apps serve a similar UX to web apps which I just think is a great idea for many use cases.”
Comment from 6 Nov 2025 in “Ratatui – App Showcase” Small focused SSH-based services
“I run a set of ssh-based services over at https://pico.sh and love seeing all the indie web content on HN!”
Comment from 18 Jul 2026 in “Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day” “Microservices like https://pico.sh/ and https://sr.ht/ feel like fresh air”
Comment from 28 Apr 2026 in “Ghostty is leaving GitHub” Cheap yearly membership
“It's great for us because each sub is a year”
Comment from 8 May 2026 in “The Self-Cancelling Subscription” “as part of the pico.sh membership ($2/mo)”
Comment from 5 Oct 2026 in “Self-hosted HTTP tunnels with SSH and Nginx”
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The four most recommended other web hosts, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
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| Neocities | 34 | 8 | 81% | 12 | — | Approved |
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| DreamHost web hosting | 16 | 11 | 59% | 7 | 20 yrs10 owners | — |
| Mythic Beasts hosting | 8 | 2 | 80% | 3 | — | — |
| pico.shThis page | 5 | 0 | 100% | 8 | — | — |
What people said
All 13 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“as part of the pico.sh membership ($2/mo)”
“I run a set of ssh-based services over at https://pico.sh and love seeing all the indie web content on HN!”
“It's great for us because each sub is a year”
“deploying the TUI requires zero user involvement”
“Microservices like https://pico.sh/ and https://sr.ht/ feel like fresh air”
“Profitable but at a scale that is manageable for us.”
“Utilizing principals gave us the ability to implement a RBAC like system for specific parts of the pico.sh ecosystem.”
“It’s multicast so you can have multiple listeners on the same topic”
“The entire experience is pretty seamless since all developers use SSH anyway.”
“kudos on your service, I'll keep it mind next time I'm picking a provider”
“check out a range-diff approach using patchsets”
“I just want to say that I love pico.sh”
“SSH apps serve a similar UX to web apps which I just think is a great idea for many use cases.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.