Patchbay's
Four free, open-source tools from the stage and the homelab
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Patchbay's is a suite of four free, open-source (GPL-3.0) apps built by a live-events AV technician: • PatchTime: overtime, meals, mileage and leave tracking for French entertainment workers (iPhone) • PatchNode: monitor Proxmox, Docker, Tailscale and Grafana from your iPhone, iPad or Mac • PatchProbe: a fast cross-platform network scanner (Rust + Tauri) • PatchPad: test DualShock 4 and Xbox controllers, including stick drift, triggers, gyro and touchpad
PH · launched Oct 28, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%) · 0 views
Niche: online utility tools · 293 launches, 33 in the last 7 days ▲ +6% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- iOS
- Open Source
- Developer Tools
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Could you build this?
Partial Several of the four apps (monitoring dashboards, time tracking) are vibe-codeable, but the French entertainment-worker overtime, meal, and leave rules need domain expertise, and the native iOS and infrastructure monitoring add real technical depth.
What it would actually take: The tracking apps can be built in SwiftUI with local storage or CloudKit, while the monitoring apps need integrations with the Proxmox, Docker, Tailscale, and Grafana APIs, typically through a secure companion service. The hard parts are encoding the French intermittent and entertainment-industry pay and overtime rules correctly, which requires someone with labor-law or payroll knowledge, and making infrastructure monitoring reliable and secure. An experienced iOS developer and a domain expert would be needed to validate the rules.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 39 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #16 of 40 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 305 days after the earliest competitor.
- Patchx-OpenDeskRobot · github · 2026-09-16 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- PatchMyGear · hn · 2025-12-27 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Ledge · ph · 2026-10-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Gamepad Tester · ph · 2026-10-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- patchit · github · 2026-10-08 · 79 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- OpenWave · ph · 2026-10-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- IPStik · ph · 2026-10-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- Fixpio · ph · 2026-11-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.35
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