An end-to-end-encrypted terminal workspace — peer-to-peer chat, file transfer, and a shared sandbox VM two people can drive together. Built in the open by OptinAmpOut.
A real session: shared chat, a live sandbox VM either side can drive, and end-to-end encryption the whole way through.
The same demo featured on the project’s open-source README ↗
Hack House turns a terminal into a shared, secure room. Chat and transfer files peer-to-peer, then spin up a sandbox VM both people can work inside — with a local AI model on hand.
One real sandbox VM, two people at the keyboard. Hand off the wheel mid-session and watch the same shell update on both sides in real time — pair-debugging, demos and incident response without screen-sharing lag. Each member gets a real Unix account, with per-user drive and sudo the host grants or revokes live.
End-to-end-encrypted, peer-to-peer messaging right inside the terminal — no server reads your traffic.
Send files directly to your peer over the same encrypted channel — with the /send command.
Summon the shared box on Docker, Podman, Multipass or VirtualBox — security distros pre-loaded, snapshot save/load built in.
A local AI model is wired into the session — assistance and automation that never leaves your machine.
Anyone summons a disposable box with /sbx docker (or podman · multipass); the host runs the real PTY locally and relays only ciphertext. Freeze and restore any box with /sbx save · /sbx load.
Fast, disposable container — Parrot OS Security (parrotsec/core) by default; swap to parrotsec/security per launch for the full pentest arsenal.
Rootless, daemonless container on Kali rolling by default — the same workflow as Docker, with no privileged daemon and no sudo to launch.
A full Ubuntu 24.04 VM — the strongest isolation and the choice for real work, with real per-user sudo inside.
Boot a local desktop VM the room gathers around, or build a fresh Ubuntu VM via cloud-init — consent-gated per user, with VT-x conflicts resolved automatically.
Local AI model driving the shared session
Built-in terminal themes
We don’t just ship client work — we publish the tools we build. Hack House is our flagship open-source release, free for anyone to read, run and fork.
Unedited reactions from developers who tried Hack House.
“This is super amazing.”
“This is gold — thanks for sharing, man.”
“It’s fire — I’ll point my colleagues to it too.”
Hack House is the kind of secure, real-time tooling we build for clients every day. Tell us what you’re trying to ship.
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