# Superlogical

14 Hacker News commenters recommended Superlogical and 12 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 2 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Terminal multiplexer from Mitchell Hashimoto that people praise for easy mouse and tab use; critics call the pitch hype and the website vague.

## Why people recommend it

- Built by Mitchell Hashimoto's team (3 comments): "Given the team, I know a great deal of care will be taken in building this product." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49100866)) "Mitchell Hashimoto is one of the very few people I think can pull it off." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49099732)) "If its got Mitchell, I'm in." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49099840))
- Fills a gap in terminals (3 comments): "Really exciting IMO. Many people are are working on new work interfaces" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49100316)) "Multibuffer program like Emacs but not Emacs. All for it." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49102342)) "Definitely a missing piece in the ecosystem." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49102706))
- Easy to use out of box (2 comments): "0 friction, intuitive ux. Mouse, scroll wheel tabs all work out of the box." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49106580)) "works without any WM installed, which is nice" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49118015))

## What people warn about

- Seen as VC-funded hype (4 comments): "It's just another AI gobbledygook product whose sole purpose for existing is to cash in on the hype bubble" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49104901)) "Taking VC money to being a better (probably worse) tmux is the sort of clownworld stuff" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49100278)) "This was just a pitch to VCs to collect a 10 million dollars" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49105950))
- Copy oversells the product (2 comments): "the copy is trying to make it sound way deeper than it really is" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49104451)) "website is very vague - not useful content - no information" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49109045))
- Breaks browser scrollbar (2 comments): "That custom disappearing scrollbar doesn't look super logical; it doesn't even look logical, tbh." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49107113)) "Goes ahead and butchers the browser scrollbar." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49100913))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [tmux](https://hackerapproved.com/p/tmux.md): 411 recommend
- [Herdr](https://hackerapproved.com/p/herdr.md): 232 recommend
- [Zellij](https://hackerapproved.com/p/zellij.md): 93 recommend
- [GNU Screen](https://hackerapproved.com/p/gnu-screen.md): 33 recommend
- [zmx](https://hackerapproved.com/p/zmx.md): 23 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Superlogical", https://hackerapproved.com/p/superlogical/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).