OpenWire
Native Linux soundpad and effects processor for PipeWire.
Details
- External ID
- 1381944635
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- OpenWire
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 22, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 21
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6211247758134768
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 26, 2026, 10:54 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 26, 2026, 10:54 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- music creation and audio software
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- soundpad and effects processor for pipewire
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Building a soundpad GUI is straightforward, but real-time DSP effects processing and low-latency virtual node routing directly via the Linux PipeWire C API requires specialized audio engineering.
What it would actually take: The application requires interfacing directly with PipeWire's C API (libpipewire) and SPA (Simple Plugin API) to create virtual sink/source nodes, route audio streams, and perform real-time effects processing without audio dropouts or excessive latency. The hard parts are thread-safe, lock-free real-time audio thread programming and PipeWire graph management. This requires specialized Linux audio systems programming knowledge.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 993 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #415 of 994 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 327 days after the earliest competitor.
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- holodor · github · 2026-09-23 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.59
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- wetype-ime-linux · github · 2026-09-23 · 227 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Audiomass · hn · 2026-05-24 · 553 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Otty · hn · 2026-06-17 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.56
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- No other launches for this product.
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