Work · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to QuietDash
Your day on a calm e-ink screen, not your phone
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Hi. I heard HN likes e-paper gadgets so I wanted to share a little side project I’ve been working on with @sqfmi. We’re building Beepberry - a portable e-paper computer for hackers, designed for chatting on Beeper. My day job is running Beeper [0], but I will always have a soft spot for building hardware. I wanted to create a ‘weekend’ device that would let me stay in touch with friends and family, without the distractions of a full smartphone. I imagined a tiny, hackable e-paper screen with a physical keyboard, powered by a Raspberry Pi, that I could use to chat around my home…and pretty…
2023 · beepberry.sqfmi.com · its alternatives →
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Motherboard▲388I started working on my ideas a few months ago. I've shipped 4 apps so far. I love my numbers, so every morning I'd go through the payments dashboard, analytics, bug reports, feature requests, and everything else for each app. I wished for a single place to view it all, so I built Motherboard. It runs locally in the browser and tracks any visible data point from any website with just a click. A single dashboard for everything. Life's good.
2025 · trymotherboard.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I am building an open source platform to make on-call better and less stressful for engineers. We are building a tool that can silence alerts and help with debugging and root cause analysis. We also want to automate tedious parts of being on-call (running runbooks manually, answering questions on Slack, dealing with Pagerduty). Here is a quick video of how it works: https://youtu.be/m_K9Dq1kZDw I hated being on-call for a couple of reasons: * Alert volume: The number of alerts kept increasing over time. It was hard to maintain existing alerts. This would lead to a lot…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I’ve always liked having background noise while working or falling asleep, but I got frustrated that most “white noise” or ambient sound apps are either paywalled, stuffed with ads, or try to upsell subscriptions for basic features. So I made Ambi, a small iOS app with a clean interface and a set of freely available ambient sounds — rain, waves, wind, birds, that sort of thing. You can mix them, adjust volume levels, and just let it play all night or while you work. Everything works offline and there are no hidden catches. It’s something I built for myself first, but I figured others might…
2025 · ambisounds.app · its alternatives →
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I built this free, no-nonsense white noise app. I know there are plenty of them out there already, but I wanted to make something beautiful and easy-to-use, without logins or ads or in-app purchases or any of the other stuff a lot of them have. I appeared on The Economist's The Intelligence podcast [0] this week talking about Ambiphone and another ambient music project, Ambient ScotRail Beats [1] - I'm on at about 17:30 There's a big selection of music and sounds already but I'm always adding more - if there's anything you'd like to see added, let me know! [0]…
2024 · ambiph.one · its alternatives →
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2014 · visionect-epaper.com · its alternatives →
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Low power, E-Ink dashboard for every day life running on a hacked Kindle. - davidhampgonsalves/Life-Dashboard
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Instant 5.0▲161Personal analytics, now with a new dashboard & goals
2017 · instantapp.today · its alternatives →
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Power efficient dashboard for Kindle 4 NT devices. Contribute to pascalw/kindle-dash development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A pager▲104Hello HN, I basically don't use notifications for anything. The noise is too much. Slack is too loud. Email is too slow. But sometimes you do need a note in your face. I found myself missing 1990s pagers. I wanted a digital equivalent - something that does one thing: beep until I ack it. So I built UDP-7777. Concept: - 0% Cloud: It listens on UDP Port 7777. No accounts, no central servers. You don't need Tailscale/ZeroTier/WG/etc, it's just easy for device sets. - CAPCODES: It maps your IP address (LAN or Tailscale) to a retro 10-digit "CAPCODE" that looks like a phone number…
Dec 2025 · udp7777.com · its alternatives →
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Dashly▲142Turn your new tab into a dashboard.
Jan 2026 · microsoftedge.microsoft.com · its alternatives →
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Quiet 3▲93It's time the internet was just a little more quiet
2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Breather (iOS)▲125Peace & quiet, on-demand. Reserve a private space on the go.
2014 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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hi folks, i'm the founder of TRMNL. we launched a KS over the summer, and now ship devices same-day. open source firmware, no subscriptions, no ads, 50+ native plugins already, and a simple API to build your own for private or public use. happy to answer any questions! Ryan
2024 · usetrmnl.com · its alternatives →
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2012 · dashku.com · its alternatives →
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I made a desktop e paper display to show my calendar and to-do list to help keep me organized in college. Full source code available here: https://github.com/jaeheonshim/inky-dashboard The display is only awoken from deep sleep mode every 30 minutes to update the information, allowing the frame to be fully battery powered. You can link your Todoist for the to-do items on the left, and you can link any calendar in iCal format (Google Calendar, Outlook, etc.) for the calendar on the right. The code can be fully customized to display just the calendar, just the to-do list,…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I have realized that a lot of people nowadays self-host services and set up home labs with mini racks. One major pain point I have come across personally is to quickly get health status from self-hosted services and machines, and have the ability to headlessly control my Raspberry Pi inside a mini rack. So It got me thinking about building a built-in GUI that users can easily add to their Raspberry Pi nodes in their (mini or full) racks or elsewhere. I have previously designed this GUI for an open source project I have been working on (called Ubo pod: github.com/ubopod) and decided to…
2025 · getubo.com · its alternatives →
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Hello Hacker News, My co-founder and I have spent the better part of years developing a completely hackable Home Automation toolset that runs on a Raspberry Pi, or any machine running Linux. With just a Raspberry Pi and a $45 Z-Wave dongle (https://www.amazon.com/Aeotec-Z-Stick-Z-Wave-create-gateway/...), you can run a complete home automation system! Our hub will support any Z-Wave or Z-Wave plus device. We are cloud hosted service that doesn't require you to purchase any proprietary hardware. Our hub software runs on NodeJS and is completely open source. We encourage…
2018 · its alternatives →
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Messaging with GIFs, live location, money & more
2014 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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GhostHub▲18I built GhostHub because I was tired of Plex/Jellyfin setups just to watch or share a few files. This lets you: - Run instantly (Python script, .exe, or Docker) - Browse media in a swipe-based UI (mobile + desktop) - Share online with built-in tunnel support (Cloudflare or Pinggy) - Set session passwords, live sync views, and even chat No logins. No setup. Just run it, point it to a folder, and go. Live demo (limited features): https://ghosthub.net Would love feedback, bug reports, or ideas!
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I've just published my small home dashboard project on Github. Hope you like it too and perhaps find it useful as a reference for similar ideas. Overall I'm very happy with the LilyGo e-ink device and I'll probably add a bunch of other features in the future.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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