Cockpit

Athan Zhang studied at Princeton, spent his early career on Wall Street, and has been part of two startups before this. Now he's building Cockpit—a tool that transforms your basic VPS into a powerful desktop-like interface. No fluff, just a better way to interact with your server infrastructure.

What does Cockpit actually do? If you've ever logged into a VPS and wanted something that feels like a real desktop instead of a command line, that's Cockpit. It gives you a graphical interface to manage your server, run applications, handle files, and monitor resources without needing to be a terminal wizard. It's desktop-level usability meets server-level power.

Mihir Kanzariya and Ripun Basumatary are also building this thing out. Not sure what their full backstory is yet, but they've got a clear vision: make server management less painful for developers and teams who need more than a terminal but less than a full cloud dashboard.

Cockpit is running at cockpit.run if you want to check it out. This is a Product Hunt launch, so early days—but if you've ever wished your VPS felt more like your Mac and less like 1999, this might be worth a look.