Retro Chip Vault
Identify, inventory and repair retro chips from a photo
Details
- External ID
- 1249274
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Retro Chip Vault
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 14, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Hardware
- Fetched at
- Sept. 15, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 15, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Retro Chip Vault turns your iPhone and iPad into a workshop tool for vintage electronics. Snap a photo of a chip and get its part number, manufacturer, pinout and compatible machines instantly. Track your inventory, log every repair project per machine, and use the symptom checker to know which components to check first. 198 chips and 76 classic machines documented (Amiga, C64, Amstrad, Atari, Apple II, arcade...). Free to start, Pro is a one-time €9.99 unlock (no subscription).
Enrichment
- Theme
- iOS and iPhone utility apps
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- photo-based chip identification and inventory tool for retro hardware hobbyists
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a native iOS utility app using the built-in Apple Vision framework for OCR, matching recognized chip text against a bundled reference database of ~200 chips with local inventory tracking.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 45 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #23 of 46 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 306 days after the earliest competitor.
- RetroMac · ph · 2026-05-23 · 205 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- New Parts for Old Computers · hn · 2026-08-03 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- RetroMac · ph · 2026-06-27 · 219 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Game Corner · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- ios-eras · github · 2026-09-22 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- SpatialEMU · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Boothly — Retro Photo Strips for iPhone · ph · 2026-09-11 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- m6502, a 6502 CPU for FPGAs and Tiny Tapeout · hn · 2026-02-18 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.37
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
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