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CartridgeID

Photograph a cartridge with a tape measure, get the match

Details

External ID
1261300
Source
PH
Company
—
Product
CartridgeID
Website domain
producthunt.com
Launched
Sept. 26, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
2
Upvotes percentile
0.7405388069275176
Tags
Productivity, Hardware, E-Commerce
Fetched at
Sept. 28, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Updated at
Sept. 28, 2026, 1:01 a.m.

Description

CartridgeID identifies faucet and shower cartridges from a photo. Snap a picture, ideally next to a tape measure, and one of our plumbing specialists confirms the exact replacement, usually within an hour, then ships it direct to your jobsite or shop. Built for working plumbers: a speed and sourcing tool for the parts you already know, and an identification service for the ones that are worn smooth or discontinued. 40+ brands supported, from Moen and Delta to imports and house lines.

Enrichment

Theme
plant care and agriculture tools
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Search & retrieval
Audience
Prosumer
AI stance
AI-native
Project type
Commercial product
Normalized one-liner
cartridge identification tool from photos
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

No The value proposition relies on human plumbing specialists manually verifying niche physical hardware dimensions from tape-measured photos and operating physical parts logistics.

What it would actually take: While the front-end intake form is trivial, a real version requires building a specialized computer vision pipeline calibrated for physical scale reference (metric rectification from a tape measure), paired with a proprietary database of thousands of plumbing cartridge schematics and dimensions. More critically, the operational backbone relies on an inventory management system integrated with wholesale plumbing supply chains and human expert verification.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 38 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #3 of 39 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 52 days after the earliest competitor.

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