rekindle
Turn an old jailbroken Kindle into an always-on clock and weather e-ink display
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GITHUB · launched Oct 22, 2026 · 15 upvotes (top 75%) · 0 views
Niche: mobile rooting and modding tools · 177 launches, 12 in the last 7 days ▼ -52% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 177 launches in mobile rooting and modding tools →
Could you build this?
Yes A clock and weather dashboard rendered to a jailbroken Kindle is a small script using existing display tools and public weather APIs, with device-specific setup.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 677 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #523 of 678 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 346 days after the earliest competitor.
- Making an 1800mah e-ink device last up to 6 months · hn · 2026-02-24 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- BetterNightLight · github · 2026-09-18 · 55 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- The bedtime · hn · 2026-01-05 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Inkwell · hn · 2026-07-02 · 77 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- LinzinDeskClock · github · 2026-11-06 · 129 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- read-pico-reader · github · 2026-10-03 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- DuoBar · github · 2026-09-14 · 58 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- App that shows your screen-free hours every time you look at your phone · hn · 2026-06-04 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.48
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