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    "description": "Dispatches from the Astrohacker portfolio.",
    "author": {
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            "id": "https://astrohacker.com/blog/2026-04-13-introducing-astrohacker",
            "content_html": "<p>For years I&#39;ve been shipping projects under scattered banners — a blockchain here, a shell there, an encrypted messenger, a social-network joke that got out of hand. Each one had its own domain, its own repo, its own half-written about page. None of them had a home.</p>\n<p><strong>Astrohacker is that home.</strong> It&#39;s the umbrella company for everything I build: a single brand for a portfolio of tools that all share one premise — that science and technology are how we explore and understand the universe, and that the best way to explore is to build.</p>\n<p>This post introduces the portfolio.</p>\n<h2>The portfolio</h2>\n<h3><a href=\"https://termsurf.com\">TermSurf</a> — <code>TERMINAL + BROWSER</code></h3>\n<p>A protocol that embeds GPU-accelerated web browsers directly in your terminal. Type <code>web</code> and you&#39;re browsing in your shell. No window-switching, no context loss, no leaving the keyboard. Currently in alpha. → <a href=\"https://termsurf.com\">termsurf.com</a></p>\n<h3><a href=\"https://shannonshell.com\">Shannon</a> — <code>NUSHELL + BASH</code></h3>\n<p>A shell built on nushell with seamless bash compatibility. Press Shift+Tab to switch modes: structured data pipelines on one side, decades of muscle memory on the other, environment and working directory synced between them. Shannon is not AI-first and doesn&#39;t try to be — it&#39;s a real shell for real work. In beta. → <a href=\"https://shannonshell.com\">shannonshell.com</a></p>\n<h3><a href=\"https://earthbucks.com\">EarthBucks</a> — <code>ELECTRONIC CASH</code></h3>\n<p>A global electronic cash system. GPU-mined, instant finality, email-like addresses, 42 million EBX. A from-scratch blockchain built on the original Bitcoin premise — peer-to-peer electronic cash — adapted for an era where AIs are going to need to pay each other. Shipped 1.0. → <a href=\"https://earthbucks.com\">earthbucks.com</a></p>\n<h3><a href=\"https://rickbait.com\">Rickbait</a> — <code>FRONT PAGE</code></h3>\n<p>An AI-powered clickbait generator, algorithmic feed, and advertising auction market. It is exactly as serious as it sounds, and exactly as serious as the rest of the web. Alpha. → <a href=\"https://rickbait.com\">rickbait.com</a></p>\n<h3><a href=\"https://keypears.com\">KeyPears</a> — <code>SECRET EXCHANGE</code></h3>\n<p>Federated encrypted messaging, a secret manager, and an authentication provider, in one project. The pitch is that your keys, your secrets, and your identity should live in one place you control — not scattered across five SaaS dashboards. Alpha. → <a href=\"https://keypears.com\">keypears.com</a></p>\n<h2>The through-lines</h2>\n<p>Looking at the portfolio as a whole, a few themes surface:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The shell is the interface.</strong> TermSurf, Shannon, and most of the development tooling I reach for live at the command line. The terminal is not a legacy interface — it&#39;s the most powerful UI we have, and it deserves better infrastructure.</li>\n<li><strong>Cryptography is plumbing, not a product category.</strong> EarthBucks and KeyPears both treat crypto as a primitive for solving a concrete problem — moving money, holding secrets — rather than as an end in itself.</li>\n<li><strong>Play is allowed.</strong> Rickbait is a joke, and it&#39;s also a real product with a real auction market. The jokes inform the serious work and vice versa.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>What&#39;s next</h2>\n<p>Astrohacker is a founder-led portfolio company, and 2026 is the year the portfolio starts pulling its weight commercially. Expect shipping cadence to pick up on all fronts, expect a few new projects to join the roster, and expect this blog to track it all.</p>\n<p>If you want to follow along, this blog has <a href=\"/blog/feed.rss.xml\">RSS</a>, <a href=\"/blog/feed.atom.xml\">Atom</a>, and <a href=\"/blog/feed.json\">JSON</a> feeds. Pick your poison.</p>\n<p>Hack the universe.</p>\n",
            "url": "https://astrohacker.com/blog/2026-04-13-introducing-astrohacker",
            "title": "Introducing Astrohacker",
            "summary": "One umbrella for a portfolio of tools spanning shells, cash, messaging, and the absurd.",
            "date_modified": "2026-04-13T12:00:00.000Z",
            "author": {
                "name": "Ryan X. Charles",
                "url": "https://astrohacker.com"
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