I built a 15+ stars Datastripes sibling with Go in a day. Just raw dashboards in your terminal

Yesterday I was fooling around trying to optimize some WASM stuff in Datastripes, and realized I wasn’t getting anywhere with C++.

So I looked at Go.

Never written a single line of Go in my life (what a wonderful programming language).

Twelve hours later, I ended up building Datacmd, which now is a terminal-native, open source dashboard tool that pulls in data from CSVs, JSON, APIs, or shell commands and renders real-time charts right in your terminal. No browser, no backend, no setup. Just run and see.

It’s basically the small hacker sibling of Datastripes. Same philosophy (real-time, no server, zero bloat) but built for devs who prefer the terminal over GUIs.

And yeah, it hit 15+ GitHub stars in under 10 hours thanks to Reddit, which honestly blew my mind.

Use case?

Need to monitor a system over SSH? datacmd

Want to test a dashboard idea before dragging blocks in Datastripes? datacmd

Or just love hacking with CLI tools? datacmd

It’s a tool I didn’t know I needed until it existed. Now I can't stop using it.

Here’s the repo if you wanna try it:

👉 https://github.com/VincenzoManto/datacmd

You can run as a Go package if you are a pro dev, or install the binary for Win, Mac, Linux directly from Github!