EarGuard
Hardware volume spike protector for Windows. Clamps rogue 100% audio bursts in <2ms to protect your hearing and IEMs.
Details
- External ID
- 1363159754
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- EarGuard
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 9, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 13
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4260184473481937
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 13, 2026, 5:57 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 13, 2026, 5:57 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- audio utilities and sound management
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- volume spike limiter for windows audio
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Achieving sub-2ms audio clamping on Windows requires low-level audio engineering, such as custom Windows Audio Processing Object (APO) filters or kernel-level virtual audio drivers.
What it would actually take: Building EarGuard requires developing a low-latency Windows Audio Processing Object (APO) or a custom WDM audio driver in C/C++. The system must intercept audio streams in real-time before they reach the hardware endpoint, buffer with minimal latency, and apply digital signal processing (DSP) limiter/compression algorithms within strict real-time OS constraints. This demands deep expertise in Windows audio internals (WASAPI, APO architecture), audio DSP, and driver signing.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 88 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #32 of 89 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 270 days after the earliest competitor.
- AudioDefence-Windows · github · 2026-09-18 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- SoundLatch · ph · 2026-09-20 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- MicShield · ph · 2026-09-30 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Intruder Guard · ph · 2026-09-19 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- SoundDry - Speaker Cleaner · ph · 2026-09-11 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- ACwO · ph · 2026-09-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- I wrote a macOS C++ audio driver to fix HDMI volume controls · hn · 2026-03-18 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- adhan-mute · github · 2026-09-12 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.39
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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