BamBuddy
a self-hosted print archive for Bambu Lab 3D printers
Details
- External ID
- 47442648
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- BamBuddy
- Website domain
- bambuddy.cool
- Launched
- March 19, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 9
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5393603936039361
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Bambu makes great hardware, but your data lives in their cloud and there's no way to export it. When a print finishes, the job is basically gone from any useful record-keeping perspective.BamBuddy fixes that by running on your own machine and tapping into the printer's local MQTT interface — so it captures everything as it happens: thumbnails, filament usage, timing, slicer settings. You end up with a fully searchable archive of your print history that's entirely yours, works offline, and never touches Bambu's servers.The catch: their local API is undocumented, so a lot of the early work was reverse-engineering the protocol. That's still ongoing as firmware updates occasionally break things.Stack: TypeScript, self-hosted, ~700 stars, small but active contributor community.GitHub: https://github.com/maziggy/bambuddy Docs: https://wiki.bambuddy.cool
Enrichment
- Theme
- file transfer and sharing tools
- Vertical
- Manufacturing
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- print archive for bambu lab 3d printers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a self-hosted dashboard that connects to Bambu 3D printers over LAN via standard MQTT and FTPS to capture telemetry and store files in SQLite/PostgreSQL.
Discussion
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Competitors
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Launched 122 days after the earliest competitor.
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Same idea, different domain
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