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Gladys Assistant 5

Private, self-hosted smart home, no YAML required

Details

External ID
1263586
Source
PH
Company
—
Product
Gladys
Website domain
producthunt.com
Launched
Sept. 29, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
89
Upvotes percentile
0.9822268548214668
Tags
Home, Open Source, Internet of Things, GitHub
Fetched at
Sept. 30, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Updated at
Sept. 30, 2026, 1:01 a.m.

Description

Gladys Assistant is a free, open-source smart home platform that runs on your own mini-PC or Raspberry Pi. Zigbee, Z-Wave, Matter and 90+ community integrations, a phone-first dashboard, no YAML, and it keeps working when the internet goes down.

Enrichment

Theme
personal and family life organizers
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Workflow automation
Audience
Prosumer
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
self-hosted smart home hub for home automators
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

No Supporting local IoT protocols (Zigbee, Z-Wave, Matter) across diverse hardware dongles with 90+ physical integrations requires deep embedded systems, local networking, and device driver expertise.

What it would actually take: A full smart home hub like Gladys runs on Node.js/Docker with native driver bindings for serial ports (Zigbee2MQTT, Z-Wave JS) and implementation of the Matter/Thread IP-based protocols. The difficulty lies in hardware abstraction across hundreds of quirky hardware vendor profiles, network mesh topology handling, and robust offline state synchronization. This requires IoT firmware engineers and systems programmers with deep protocol knowledge.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 31 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #1 of 32 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 231 days after the earliest competitor.

Other launches for this product

Same idea, different domain

Nobody's really built a workflow automation tool for Real estate yet.