Gilfoyle's Project but IRL
Details
- External ID
- 48741765
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- Gilfoyle's Project but IRL
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- July 1, 2026
- Cohort
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- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.2873357228195938
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Made this when I was learning to use APIs, and was watching the sillicon vallye show.
Enrichment
- Theme
- indie hacker passion projects
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
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- Audience
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- AI stance
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- Project type
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- Normalized one-liner
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- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Based on the TV show Silicon Valley (Gilfoyle's alert system for Bitcoin price drops), this is a simple script or app polling a crypto price API and triggering audio or alerts.
Discussion
5 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Not useful for most people, Risk of legal/prison consequences
Feature requests: Generate beautiful Java code
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 18 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #15 of 19 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 245 days after the earliest competitor.
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- I built a museum of AI interfaces · hn · 2026-08-24 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- News on the Go · hn · 2026-05-01 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.34
- I built a narrative game about running a thrift shop · hn · 2026-01-21 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.33
- Weird Clocks · hn · 2026-04-06 · 53 upvotes · similarity 0.33
- I rebuilt Jobs To Be Done on scientific foundations and open-sourced it · hn · 2026-06-22 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.32
- netflix-tube · github · 2026-09-09 · 34 upvotes · similarity 0.32
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.