My WHOOP has no screen. My Kindle had no job. So I put them together
Details
- External ID
- 49230742
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- My WHOOP has no screen. My Kindle had no job. So I put them together
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Aug. 9, 2026
- Cohort
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- Upvotes
- 11
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6088709677419355
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Description
I run a lot, so every morning I check my recovery and decide whether to run or take a rest day.I wanted an always-on screen that would let me see everything at a glance. Then I remembered the old Kindle collecting dust in the corner.So I built this: WHOOP API → a server on my Mac mini → grayscale PNG → Kindle screensaver. It’s now open source, including the full setup guide.
Enrichment
- Theme
- macOS notch and desktop utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Hardware & robotics
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- hybrid wearable and display device
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The project simply queries the WHOOP REST API, renders an HTML or image dashboard via a lightweight server, and serves it as a grayscale image to a jailbroken Kindle's browser or cron job.
Discussion
5 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Garmin, Apple Watch, Kindle
Concerns raised: API access limitations for Garmin and Apple Watch
Feature requests: Support for Garmin devices, Support for Apple Watch
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 21 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #11 of 22 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 272 days after the earliest competitor.
- SideMini · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Readerbeam · ph · 2026-09-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Rereader · ph · 2026-09-13 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- Shelvy Books · hn · 2026-01-29 · 52 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- Read Kindle Like X · hn · 2026-01-05 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.34
- ANSI-Saver · hn · 2026-03-07 · 104 upvotes · similarity 0.33
- PicDock · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.33
- DroidDock · hn · 2025-11-10 · 78 upvotes · similarity 0.33
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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