RELAY
Real-time backup for your own devices
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RELAY is real-time backup for your own devices. The second a text, message, notification, or location update happens on your phone, a copy lands in your email — before anything can be deleted, lost, or switched off. Install on your own devices with legal and physical access. Starts with a 10-day free trial, then $49/month.
PH · launched Nov 12, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views
Niche: data backup software · 72 launches, 15 in the last 7 days ▲ +7% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Data infrastructure
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Messaging
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Could you build this?
Partial A companion app and email dashboard are vibe-codeable, but real-time capture of texts, notifications, and location depends on OS permissions. iOS sandboxing blocks most of this, so a cross-platform version is not realistic without deep mobile-OS expertise.
What it would actually take: On Android, the build needs a background service with SMS, notification-listener, and location permissions, plus a reliable email relay. On iOS, real-time SMS capture is largely blocked by the sandbox, so the product would need a different approach or narrower scope. Mobile platform engineering and careful privacy and legal design are the hard parts.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 165 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #71 of 166 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 328 days after the earliest competitor.
- Relay · ph · 2026-11-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Relay · ph · 2026-10-01 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Relay · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Relay · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- RecoverMyDevice · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- relay-v2.2.0 · github · 2026-10-28 · 102 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- wa2tg · ph · 2026-10-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Relay · ph · 2026-10-02 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.41
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