Computer Companion
The Missing Piece of Your Awesome Gaming Desktop.
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Computer Companion is a custom ESP32-powered 5inch touchscreen device + Windows desktop app that displays real-time PC health (CPU, GPU, RAM, Storage, Network) alongside live sports (Cricket, F1), Weather, Now-playing media and Game FPS — all in one glance-able device on your desk. 11 built-in screen animated themes, custom wallpaper upload, RGB LED ambient lighting, and a "Bring Your Own Widget" layout editor.
PH · launched Sep 19, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 26%) · 0 views
Niche: hardware monitoring and diagnostic tools · 129 launches, 9 in the last 7 days ▼ -44% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Hardware & robotics
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Accessories
- Internet of Things
- Computers
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Could you build this?
No The product combines physical hardware engineering, custom PCB design, embedded microcontroller firmware, and native operating system telemetry software.
What it would actually take: Building this requires designing a custom PCB housing an ESP32, touchscreen display, and enclosure, alongside embedded C++ firmware (using ESP-IDF/LVGL) for display rendering. The software component requires a native Windows desktop service (C#/.NET or C++) hooking low-level hardware sensors (via LibreHardwareMonitor) and graphics pipelines to stream FPS and PC vitals over USB or Wi-Fi.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 142 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #36 of 143 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 276 days after the earliest competitor.
- Companion · ph · 2026-10-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- AI Hub Companion · ph · 2026-10-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Now - Your Desktop Pixel Companion · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- MyPCTop · ph · 2026-09-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- health-companion · github · 2026-09-28 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Super Buddy · ph · 2026-10-27 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Hover Desktop · ph · 2026-10-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Kumo · ph · 2026-11-04 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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