The bedtime, another little bedside clock
Details
- External ID
- 46401265
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- The bedtime, another little bedside clock
- Website domain
- stavros.io
- Launched
- Dec. 27, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 8
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4217557251908397
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Hey everyone, I made another bedside clock, because my last one was getting a bit long in the tooth. This is a very straightforward build, because it turned out you don't need to mess with the AliExpress-bought hardware, so you can easily make your own!
Enrichment
- Theme
- sleep, wake, and clock utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- —
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- bedside clock
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No This is physical hardware hacking involving microcontroller pinouts, reverse-engineering unexposed serial headers, and flashing custom firmware onto an ESP8266 board.
What it would actually take: Building this requires physical reverse-engineering tools (multimeter, logic analyzer, UART-to-USB serial adapters) to identify boot pinouts, ground, power, and RX/TX lines on an undocumented PCB. The developer must have hardware electronics experience to safely interface with display controllers and flash custom ESPHome or Arduino C++ firmware onto the microcontroller.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 67 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #34 of 68 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 43 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.