[freddie_mercury]

"Seashells lets you pipe output from command-line programs to the web in real-time, even without installing any new software on your machine"

The page already told us you can do this out of the box. It's the very first sentence.

It also clearly explains the benefits provided by using the additional, optionally installed tooling.

[kristopolous]

I'm claiming this can already be accomplished using standard tools already installed, without much effort.

It won't look The Exact Same but it is functionally equivalent for many uses and is self hosted

It's not meant to be discouraging, if people find it useful then great

[Linosaurus]

> self hosted

The article has two points.

1. They are providing a web server.

2. They are providing instructions on sending things to that server using netcat or an optional client/script.

I think your bash example covers point 2 only.