Hamilton
a no-internet Android health dashboard, named after my dog
Details
- External ID
- 49843909
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Hamilton
- Website domain
- google.com
- Launched
- Sept. 25, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 13
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6555023923444976
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 29, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 29, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Description
I started experimenting with LLMs and decided I wanted to create a fitness app. My first thought was an app that disabled Google Pay every time my phone detected I was within 50m of a McDonald's.However, I quickly pivoted like a true founder to create an app that addressed a personal issue of mine.On Android, if you have a bunch of apps and fitness monitors from different manufacturers, very few of them all talk to each other. Your data is scattered across different apps or double counted. However, most data sources write to Health Connect.Hamilton is a dashboard of your Health Connect data with a homepage that shows your key metrics at a glance. Your choice of data source is flexible to avoid double counting, and you can overlay and offset metrics on charts to view correlations and track progress over time.I named the app after my dog, who occasionally fetches things and is responsible for my daily step count.Below is an FAQ, and to avoid confusion I have helpfully labelled my responses [APP] or [DOG]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49848948.
Enrichment
- Theme
- pet tech and virtual companions
- Vertical
- Healthcare
- Function
- Analytics & BI
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- offline health dashboard for android users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a straightforward, offline Android dashboard that pulls local health metrics from Android Health Connect APIs.
Discussion
7 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Heartwood, OpenVitals, HealthDisconnect
Concerns raised: AI-generated logo is off-putting, Unclear value over free open-source alternatives, Paid app competing with free alternatives
Feature requests: Replace AI logo with non-AI icon or real photo
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 114 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #36 of 115 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 331 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Personal Trainer · hn · 2026-05-12 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.47
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- Agent Arnold · hn · 2026-04-01 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.46
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- AI health agent that nags you on WhatsApp instead of a dashboard · hn · 2026-01-16 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.43
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a analytics & bi tool for Legal yet.