JoyOff
A simple Nintendo Switch homebrew app that puts original Joy-Con controllers into shipment low-power mode and disconnects them.
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GITHUB · launched Oct 22, 2026 · 25 upvotes (top 48%)
- Horizontal
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
Similar launches
See all 203 similar launches →Could you build this?
No The app must run on a Switch with custom firmware and talk to Joy-Con Bluetooth firmware to force low-power shipment mode. That depends on console homebrew internals and reverse-engineered controller protocols that vibe coding cannot supply.
What it would actually take: It requires a homebrew toolchain (libnx or similar) and knowledge of the Switch's Bluetooth HID stack and Joy-Con command protocol, which has been reverse-engineered from hardware traffic. Testing needs real hardware and custom-firmware consoles. The expertise is embedded systems and reverse engineering.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 203 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #100 of 204 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 346 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Switch-PC-Stream · github · 2026-09-15 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- switchvisor · github · 2026-09-14 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- LumaDock · github · 2026-10-20 · 152 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- switchsplat · github · 2026-10-20 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- GBRemote · github · 2026-09-19 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- sh3-nx · github · 2026-10-09 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.47
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- No other launches for this product.
More details
- External ID
- 1429623298
- Company
- n/a
- Product
- JoyOff
- Website domain
- github.com
- Cohort
- n/a
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.52
- All tags
- n/a
- AI summary
- switch homebrew that powers off joy-con controllers
- Manually corrected
- No