Summary

Mitchell Hashimoto announces Superlogical, a new company he's co-founding after three years of post-HashiCorp life focused on fatherhood, philanthropy, and passion projects. During that period, Ghostty grew from a throwaway personal project into a terminal emulator with millions of daily users, which Mitchell donated to a non-profit to permanently protect its open-source mission. Building Ghostty led him to ask deeper questions about why terminal usage keeps growing and what comes next — questions that pointed toward a company. Superlogical will start by shipping a terminal multiplexer built on libghostty, with a larger vision still undisclosed.

Key Insight

Ghostty's success as a passion project wasn't a pivot to commercialization but a proof of craft that revealed a deeper unsolved problem worth building a company around.

Spicy Quotes (click to share)

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  Building software is my personal passion, and I continued to learn and build a little every day just for the love of it.

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  I have no intention of ever commercializing Ghostty.

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  I wasn't searching for a reason to start another company, but I found a problem I wanted to spend years working on, a scope that required a team, and people I wanted to build it with.

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  One thing we all share is an uncompromising commitment to well-crafted software and software experiences.

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  Superlogical will consume the same MIT-licensed components available to everyone else, and we will continue to upstream shared terminal work so every libghostty consumer can benefit.

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  I kept asking 'why?' Why is terminal usage more widespread than ever? What continues to drive its growth? At what point does that end? What comes next?

Tone

personal, optimistic, principled