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Bambu Bar

Your Bambu Lab 3D printer, live in the Mac menu bar

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Bambu Bar puts your Bambu Lab printer in the Mac menu bar: progress, time left, temperatures, AMS filament, the live camera, desktop widgets and alerts when a print fails. It talks to the printer over your local network. No account, no cloud, open source.

PH · launched Nov 2, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views

Niche: 3d printing software and utilities · 42 launches, 5 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Observability & eval
  • Prosumer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • Productivity
  • 3D Printer
  • GitHub
  • 3D Modeling

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More like this: all 42 launches in 3d printing software and utilities →

Could you build this?

Yes It is a menu-bar app that reads printer status and camera feeds over the local network. Community reverse-engineering of the Bambu LAN protocol is already public, so a solo builder can vibe-code this in a few weeks.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 184 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #96 of 185 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 331 days after the earliest competitor.

  • bambu-bar · github · 2026-10-22 · 129 upvotes · similarity 0.88
  • BamBuddy · hn · 2026-03-19 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.56
  • Bambu Lab H3C · ph · 2026-11-05 · 66 upvotes · similarity 0.52
  • Mac Kit · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
  • Drum Pad · ph · 2026-11-14 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.44
  • Dynamic Menu Bar · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
  • smack · ph · 2026-10-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
  • Ledge · ph · 2026-11-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41

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