ram-altman
Monitors your RAM and reports any "quite terrible" unused capacity directly to the CEO of OpenAI.
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GITHUB · launched Nov 5, 2026 · 1278 upvotes (top 1%) · 0 views
Niche: hardware monitoring and diagnostic tools · 129 launches, 15 in the last 7 days ▲ +50% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Observability & eval
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- bash
- cron
- dram
- humor
- linux
- +11 more
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More like this: all 129 launches in hardware monitoring and diagnostic tools →
Could you build this?
Yes This is a small bash script that reads RAM usage from /proc/meminfo, runs on a cron schedule and sends an email. Any solo builder can write it in an afternoon.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 442 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1 of 443 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 365 days after the earliest competitor.
- I audited 500 K8s pods. Java wastes ~48% RAM, Go ~18% · hn · 2025-12-13 · 36 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- baa · github · 2026-10-12 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- I hired AI to fix my memory, but made it 100% Offline for privacy · hn · 2025-12-24 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- WonderBox · github · 2026-09-20 · 181 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- gb10-ram-reclaim · github · 2026-09-27 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Nønos · hn · 2025-12-23 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- advanced-pc-optimizer · github · 2026-11-10 · 102 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- local-llm-vram-budget-optimizer · github · 2026-10-19 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.43
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