The bedtime
Another little bedside clock I made
Details
- External ID
- 46497452
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- The bedtime
- Website domain
- stavros.io
- Launched
- Jan. 5, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 13
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5790513833992095
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- sleep, wake, and clock utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Hardware & robotics
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- bedside clock display
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No This is a physical DIY hardware project involving microcontroller soldering, ESP8266 pin manipulation, hardware screen selection, and ESPHome firmware flashing.
What it would actually take: Building this requires physical electronics hardware: sourcing compatible ESP8266 or ESP32 dev boards, soldering iron, serial programmers (FTDI), and OLED/LCD displays. The stack involves ESPHome or Arduino/C++ firmware flashing over UART, configuring I2C/SPI display drivers, and mechanical assembly. Success depends on hands-on electrical engineering, circuit debugging, and soldering skills.
Discussion
6 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Amazfit Band 7, Ali Express pre-flashed devices
Concerns raised: Not as plug and play as finished products, No built-in alarm or speaker, Time-based brightness annoying
Feature requests: Light sensor for automatic brightness adjustment, Alarm functionality, Speaker
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 175 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #75 of 176 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 62 days after the earliest competitor.
- The bedtime, another little bedside clock · hn · 2025-12-27 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.75
- A Triangular Clock · hn · 2026-02-10 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- The Alphabetical Clock · hn · 2026-03-30 · 40 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Triclock · hn · 2026-02-11 · 68 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Weird Clocks · hn · 2026-04-06 · 53 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- I made a simple time card calculator · hn · 2025-11-14 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- I built a "Do not disturb" Device for my home office · hn · 2026-01-03 · 99 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Simple Clock · ph · 2026-09-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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