HWKeeper
Know the moment a computer's hardware changes
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Details
- External ID
- 1271574
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- HWKeeper
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 7, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- Tags
- Productivity, SaaS, Security
Description
HWKeeper records every computer's hardware with per-part serial numbers, plus software and USB devices, and alerts you within 15 minutes when something changes: a pulled drive, a swapped GPU or RAM, a new remote access tool. Free for up to 50 computers.
Enrichment
- Niche
- hardware monitoring and diagnostic tools
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Observability & eval
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- computer hardware change detection for it administrators
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The dashboard and alerting backend are standard, but the cross-platform low-level desktop agent that queries hardware component serials and tracks hardware changes requires OS-level systems programming.
What it would actually take: Requires an OS-level background daemon written in Go, C++, or Rust that interfaces with platform hardware APIs (WMI/SetupAPI on Windows, IOKit on macOS, udev/sysfs on Linux) to fingerprint component serials and detect USB bus events reliably without tripping AV heuristics, reporting diffs to a cloud ingest service.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 27 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #15 of 28 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 309 days after the earliest competitor.
- Maxer Monitor · ph · 2026-09-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- PC-Monitor · github · 2026-09-25 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- PCMonitor_v1.2 · ph · 2026-09-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- 1401-probe · github · 2026-09-25 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- ThermPort · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- DeviceWatch · ph · 2026-09-06 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- codex-clock · github · 2026-09-15 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.34
- We built an MCP for Windows · hn · 2026-04-14 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.34