ASTROHACKER

Folding the Portfolio into Astrohacker

July 11, 2026 · Ryan X. Charles

We used to open astrohacker.com like a trade-show booth map.

Seven tiles. Seven domains. TermSurf, Shannon, NuTorch, EarthBucks, KeyPears, WebBuf, RSS Anyway—each with a formula line and a status badge. That was honest about how the work got built. It was a terrible front door.

We are folding the whole portfolio under the Astrohacker name.

Not done. Underway. Some of it already ships as Astrohacker. Some of it still wears the old labels while we merge code, packaging, and product surfaces. Expect legacy sites to lag. The direction is set.

What you can install today

This part is not aspirational. One Homebrew cask on Apple silicon macOS:

brew tap astrohackerlabs/astrohacker
brew trust astrohackerlabs/astrohacker
brew install --cask astrohacker

That ships:

  • Astrohacker Terminal — multi-engine browsers (Chromium, WebKit, Ladybird) in the same window as your shell.
  • Astrohacker Shell — ships with Terminal.
  • Astrohacker Editor — ships with Terminal.
  • Astrohacker Web — ahweb: open a real engine in a pane.

One brand. One download into /Applications. Pieces live under docs, not as four separate storefronts.

That is the first unification that matters: the desktop workbench is already Astrohacker.

What still gets folded in

The old grid was bigger than the workbench. Those projects are still company work. Over time they get Astrohacker + a second word and land in the company repos and release trains—not forever as peer consumer brands on the homepage.

Working names below are aspirational. Final public names are TBD. This is not a launch checklist.

Already folded or shipping under Astrohacker

  • TermSurf → Astrohacker Terminal. TermSurf stays the protocol name in code and history.
  • Shannon → Astrohacker Shell. You will still see Shannon in lineage notes.

Next (names drafts only)

  • NuTorch → Astrohacker Torch (TBD) — GPU tensors from the shell.
  • EarthBucks → Astrohacker Cash (TBD) — electronic cash / EBX.
  • KeyPears → Astrohacker Keys (TBD) — identity, secrets, encrypted messaging.
  • WebBuf → Astrohacker Buf (TBD) — buffers and crypto libraries.
  • RSS Anyway → Astrohacker Feed (TBD) — open-web feed aggregation.

Other experiments (Rickbait, and whatever we invent next) get the same rule when they are ready: Astrohacker something, name TBD, merge when the product story catches up.

What “folded in” actually means

Not a logo sticker.

  • Brand — users eventually meet Astrohacker first, not a maze of half-related domains.
  • Code and packaging — projects move into company repositories and release trains where it makes sense.
  • Product surfaces — Terminal is the desktop wedge. Wallet, keys, cash, and web services still point at the long-term Astrohacker Economy idea—agents and humans with identity and value under human control—without claiming those surfaces are fully renamed or shipped under new names today.

If keypears.com still says KeyPears tomorrow, that is expected. Cutover is project by project.

Why bother

A product grid flatters the builder. One company brand serves the user.

We build for people who live in the terminal and the browser—often with AI coding agents in the loop. The workbench for that is Astrohacker Terminal. Money, keys, libraries, and web tools belong under the same roof, not as seven competing homepage cards.

What to do

  • Use what ships: install Terminal, read the docs.
  • Expect lag: old domains and names stick around during the merge. Draft names above can change.
  • Follow along: blog, Discord, GitHub.

We are not saying the merge is finished. We are saying it has started—with a Terminal that already works—and the rest of the portfolio is coming under Astrohacker as we go.

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