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HN · launched Aug 16, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 87%) · 0 views

Niche: talent and staffing marketplaces · 67 launches, 8 in the last 7 days ▲ +33% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Developer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

No This is custom physical hardware (a 4-port USB hub with per-port power isolation and GPIO) paired with embedded firmware and kernel-level USB/IP networking.

What it would actually take: Requires custom PCB electrical engineering (power switching circuitry, USB 2.0 PHY/hub ICs, Ethernet controller, and GPIO control) and firmware (embedded Linux/OpenWrt or RTOS on an SoC). The system integrates the Linux USB/IP kernel subsystem wrapped with Tailscale VPN mesh networking and a custom remote CLI client. This demands specialized hardware design, fabrication, and low-level embedded systems engineering.

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Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 128 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #108 of 129 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 272 days after the earliest competitor.

  • plexo · github · 2026-09-15 · 211 upvotes · similarity 0.46
  • Rapel · hn · 2026-05-26 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.43
  • webrtcforthestreamer.com · hn · 2026-06-01 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.42
  • netspeedtray · github · 2026-10-22 · 58 upvotes · similarity 0.41
  • gomax-bench-1 · github · 2026-10-20 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.41
  • Rat · github · 2026-10-22 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.41
  • PS5-Network-Mounting · github · 2026-10-10 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.40
  • net-merge · github · 2026-10-12 · 64 upvotes · similarity 0.39

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