Home Memory
A local DB of my house, down to cables and pipes
Details
- External ID
- 47793061
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Home Memory
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- April 16, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 56
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8451156812339332
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- systems tools and desktop utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Data infrastructure
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- local database of house inventory and systems
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a local relational database and UI for tracking household assets, cable layouts, and maintenance records, which is standard CRUD.
Discussion
13 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Home Assistant, Digital twin systems, File-based RAG/agent approaches
Concerns raised: Context window limits with file-based approaches, Data split between Home Memory and Home Assistant feels fragmented, Reliability of AI reconstructing structure from prose vs. structured queries, Local model capability (23 MCP tools may require Claude/GPT tier)
Feature requests: Full Home Assistant integration/add-on instead of separate system, Image/photo attachment support for visual reference, Periodic camera updates for drawer/storage monitoring, Support for handoff documentation to non-technical users (elderly parents)
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 697 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #121 of 698 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 164 days after the earliest competitor.
- HouseOS · github · 2026-09-28 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- HomeButler · hn · 2026-06-04 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Homebutler · hn · 2026-04-05 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Whosthere: A LAN discovery tool with a modern TUI, written in Go · hn · 2026-01-23 · 278 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- hearth · github · 2026-09-14 · 41 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- local-workspace-mcp · github · 2026-09-11 · 53 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Recall · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Gonzales · hn · 2026-02-26 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.47
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
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