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Superlogical – Mitchell Hashimoto

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Why This Matters

Mitchell Hashimoto's new venture, Superlogical, reflects his ongoing passion for software development and open source innovation, building on his previous successful projects like Ghostty. His focus on open source and community-driven initiatives highlights a shift towards creating impactful, non-commercial tools that benefit the broader tech community. This underscores the importance of passion-driven development and the potential for open source projects to influence industry standards and empower users.

Key Takeaways

July 29, 2026

I've started a new company: Superlogical.

I authored1 the announcement post on the Superlogical homepage, which describes the problem statement and what we're building.2 Read that to learn more. This post is more of a personal statement about what led to this, how it relates to my recent work, and what comes next.

Building for the Love of It

In 2023, after 11 years, I left the company I previously founded.

Since then, my primary focus has been being a mostly full-time dad. I became involved with a lot of philanthropy.3 I wrote a lot on technical topics, sharing as much as I had the time and energy for.

But I never stopped building. Building software is my personal passion, and I continued to learn and build a little every day just for the love of it.

Ghostty

I poured most of that passion into Ghostty. Ghostty started as a personal project I thought I'd throw away4, but instead grew into a project with millions of daily users, a large community with a wonderful group of core maintainers, and a reusable library powering impactful software as well as fun software.

I have no intention of ever commercializing Ghostty. To solidify this, I donated the entirety of Ghostty to a federally recognized non-profit in 2025. This ownership legally binds Ghostty to the public-benefit purpose it was created to serve. It is now and forever an open building block that everyone can build on and learn from.

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