hobby-os
A simple attempt to create an OS. Mostly to learn OSDev and as a challenge to use minimal AI
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GITHUB · launched Oct 13, 2026 · 14 upvotes (top 75%)
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- from-scratch
- iso
- limine
- operating-system
- operating-system-from-scratch
- rust
- +1 more in the details below
Similar launches
See all 2864 similar launches →Could you build this?
No Creating an operating system requires bare-metal x86/ARM assembly, bootloader engineering, kernel memory management, and interrupt handling, explicitly beyond vibe coding.
What it would actually take: An OS requires assembly (NASM/GAS) and freestanding C or Rust (no_std). The hard parts are writing the multi-stage bootloader or UEFI protocol integration, setting up GDT/IDT, paging and virtual memory allocators, scheduler context switching, and hardware device drivers (PIC/APIC, timer, serial, ATA/NVMe).
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 2864 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #2184 of 2865 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 349 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Vanilla OS 3 Reunion · hn · 2026-08-24 · 33 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Cook · hn · 2026-03-05 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- PearlOS –An open source OS companion that learns and evolves around you · hn · 2026-02-18 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- LiberNT · github · 2026-10-14 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- tacit · github · 2026-10-17 · 70 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Vintageterminals.io · hn · 2026-02-13 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.58
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
More details
- External ID
- 1417150431
- Company
- n/a
- Product
- hobby-os
- Website domain
- github.com
- Cohort
- n/a
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.25
- All tags
- from-scratch, iso, limine, operating-system, operating-system-from-scratch, rust, rust-lang
- AI summary
- hobby operating system written from scratch
- Manually corrected
- No