Pentaton LP
a music streamer with an LP sleeve sized display
Details
- External ID
- 48889245
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Pentaton LP
- Website domain
- pentaton.app
- Launched
- July 13, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.1081242532855436
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Hey HN! I always liked to see and touch the cover artwork of the CDs and LPs I bought in the past, but in the end the convenience of digital streaming won me over and I accepted no (or stamp-sized) artwork. Lately I’ve been missing this more and more and ultimately decided to try to do something about it. So I built a streamer from the ground up.Happy to answer any questions, this is my first PCB design and 3D model all in one project.
Enrichment
- Theme
- music creation and audio software
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- music streamer with lp sleeve display
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No This project requires custom PCB design, high-speed electronic signal routing, hardware fabrication, 3D CAD modeling, custom Linux device-tree kernel development, and embedded GPU programming.
What it would actually take: A developer needs electrical engineering expertise (Altium/KiCad) to design a custom carrier board with USB-C PD and embedded DisplayPort for a compute module like the Radxa CM3. On the software side, it requires building custom embedded Linux images (Yocto or Alpine) with custom device tree overlays, hardware display backlight drivers, and OpenGL/EGL shaders to cross-fade 4MP images smoothly on low-power silicon. Finally, mechanical engineering and DFM (Design for Manufacturing) expertise are required to produce functional 12x12 inch enclosures.
Discussion
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 91 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #86 of 92 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 255 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a vertical saas tool for Insurance yet.