Mqtt Broker for 10 Years
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Intended for 10-year (plus hopefully) deployment lifetime on $10-30 of silicon. The kind of thing you screw to a wall, plug in, and walk away from for a decade. No telemetry, no phone-home updates, no external dependencies. Storage decisions get a sanity checked against NVS wear... a write-per-PUBLISH would shred the flash in months, so the retained store and in tables that stay in PSRAM.Its heavily written with AI and borrowed a lot of visuals from Tasmota. Not for production use yet (been currently running it for a month with great results!)
HN · launched Jun 1, 2026 · 15 upvotes (top 30%) · 0 views
Niche: network proxy management tools · 112 launches, 5 in the last 7 days ▼ -50% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Communication
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
No Designing an embedded MQTT broker meant to run reliably without intervention for a decade on cheap microcontrollers requires deep low-level embedded systems, wear leveling, and fault-tolerant firmware expertise.
What it would actually take: The architecture must be implemented in embedded C or `no_std` Rust on bare metal or an RTOS (like FreeRTOS/Zephyr) targeting microcontrollers (e.g., ESP32, STM32). The critical engineering hurdles are flash memory wear-leveling algorithms, strict zero-memory-leak static allocation, power-loss resilience, and formal verification of network state machines. This requires decades of specialized firmware, electrical, and embedded systems engineering experience.
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Competitors mentioned: Raspberry Pi with NATS and Docker
Competitors
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Attention rank: #17 of 44 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 214 days after the earliest competitor.
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