drift-doctor
Stick drift test and fix for Windows: gamepad tester, deadzone finder
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GITHUB · launched Nov 8, 2026 · 145 upvotes (top 27%) · 0 views
Niche: hardware monitoring and diagnostic tools · 129 launches, 9 in the last 7 days ▼ -44% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- controller-drift-test
- deadzone-calculator
- dualsense
- gamepad-tester
- joystick-drift
- stick-drift
- +2 more
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Could you build this?
Yes A gamepad tester and deadzone finder reads controller input through standard APIs such as XInput or the browser Gamepad API and plots the axes. Vibe coding can handle this in days to weeks.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 632 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #145 of 633 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 366 days after the earliest competitor.
- ControllerTest-test gamepads,stick drift and polling rate by browser · hn · 2026-06-05 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.74
- ControllerTesting.com · ph · 2026-11-02 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- GearLint · ph · 2026-10-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- GamepadTesterPro · ph · 2026-11-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- GamepadTesters · ph · 2026-11-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Gamepad Tester Pro: Controller · ph · 2026-09-30 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- lag-compensator · github · 2026-11-08 · 82 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- phantom-blade-zero-controller-detection · github · 2026-10-28 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.54
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