Helio
Know exactly what your rooftop solar made today
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Rooftop solar apps make you dig for the one number you want: units made today. Helio opens straight on it, read from your inverter's own energy counter via ShineMonitor / SmartClient. Also: live power, any past day as a 5-minute curve, 30-day, yearly and lifetime history, and savings in your own currency and tariff. Deploy your own copy to Vercel in 5 minutes. Free, MIT licensed, no database, no tracking. Your login never reaches the browser.
PH · launched Oct 26, 2026 · 77 upvotes (top 2%) · 2 views
Niche: energy and utility management software · 61 launches, 7 in the last 7 days ▼ -30% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Energy & climate
- Analytics & BI
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Open Source
- GitHub
- Climate Tech
- Home Automation
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More like this: all 61 launches in energy and utility management software →
Could you build this?
Yes The app mainly reads an inverter's energy counters through the ShineMonitor/SmartClient API and charts the results, which is ordinary API integration and data visualization.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 84 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1 of 85 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 278 days after the earliest competitor.
- Helios · hn · 2026-05-30 · 126 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Solar Energy Calculator · ph · 2026-10-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- VoltSolar · ph · 2026-11-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Sun Hours: Solar Forecast · ph · 2026-10-05 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- My solar died for 6 months, so I built a watchdog · hn · 2026-08-10 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- SolarTuner · ph · 2026-11-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Home Energy Calculators · ph · 2026-10-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- ADM Solar · ph · 2026-10-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
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